08 - Quality Specialist 1

Req ID: 129405
Remote Position: No
Region: Asia
Country: Malaysia
State/Province: Kedah
City: Kulim

**General Overview**:
**Functional Area**: OPS - Operations
**Career Stream**: QUA - Quality
**Role**: Specialist
**SAP Short Name**: SPE
**Job Title**: Quality Specialist
**Job Code**: SPE-OPS-QUA
**Job Level**: Band 08
**Direct/Indirect Indicator**: Indirect

**Summary**:
**Detailed Description**:
Performs tasks such as, but not limited to, the following:

- Leads development, implementation, maintenance and improvement of system(s) and processes that ensure the correct documentation/information/instructions are available for use and that changes are implemented in a timely manner.
- Works closely with users of these system(s) and processes to better understand their needs and drive improvement to enable users to be more effective and efficient at their functions.
- Ensures that system(s) and processes meet industry standards (e.g., ISO) and customer requirements while driving toward “world class†practices and standards.
- System(s) and processes may include, but are not limited to, the following:

- Standardizes internal documentation/information format and hierarchy
- Ensures that proper revision of internal documentation/information is accessible and utilized
- Ensures authorization of change commensurate with magnitude/impact of change
- Ensures timely, accurate implementation of changes (initiated both externally and internally)
- Archives documents/information to maintain history/traceability
- May also be responsible for quality benchmarking and testing, working to identify areas for improvement, developing/modifying programs that measure the quality of product, processes, and services and drive corrective actions/quality improvement efforts.
- Develops quality metrics and goals to drive quality improvement efforts.
- Distributes reports that track defects as product is assembled and tested through the plant and defect information about products that have failed at a customer site.

**Knowledge/Skills/Competencies**:

- Strong knowledge of “state-of-the-art” documentation and quality systems.
- In-depth knowledge of quality metrics, ISO standards, and processes.
- Knowledge of software and its uses in generating reports, capturing data, and presenting data in an understandable format.
- Strong knowledge of manufacturing processes.
- Strong project management skills.
- Knowledge and understanding of the business unit and how decisions impact customer satisfaction, product quality, on-time delivery and the profitability of the unit.
- Ability to coordinate a wide variety of resources to meet production quality and quantity metrics.
- Ability to effectively communicate with a wide variety of internal and external customers.
- Ability to effectively lead, train and motivate a diverse group of employees to achieve high production levels within tight time deadlines and in a highly dynamic manufacturing environment.

**Physical Demands**:

- Duties of this position are performed in a normal office environment.
- Duties may require extended periods of sitting and sustained visual concentration on a computer monitor or on numbers and other detailed data.
- Repetitive manual movements (e.g., data entry, using a computer mouse, using a calculator, etc.) are frequently required.
- Above demands are carried out within the local existing Health and Safety guidelines

**Typical Experience**:

- Three to six years of relevant experience

**Typical Education**:

- Bachelor's degree in related field, or consideration of an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Educational Requirements may vary by Geography

**Notes**:
Celestica is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on any protected status (including race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran or disability status or other characteristics protected by law).

**COMPANY OVERVIEW**:
Celestica (NYSE, TSX: CLS) enables the world’s best brands. Through our recognized customer-centric approach, we partner with leading companies in Aerospace and Defense, Communications, Enterprise, HealthTech, Industrial, Capital Equipment and Energy to deliver solutions for their most complex challenges. As a leader in design, manufacturing, hardware platform and supply chain solutions, Celestica brings global expertise and insight at every stage of product development - from drawing board to full-scale production and after-market services for products from advanced medical devices, to highly engineered aviation systems, to next-generation hardware platform solutions for the Cloud. Headquartered in Toronto, with talented teams spanning 40+ locations in 13 countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia, we imagine, develop and deliver a better future with our customers.

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