Join Our Team as a Category Specialist / Technical Supplier Engineer for Iron Casting
We are seeking a dedicated professional with a strong commitment to long-term business development, fostering close collaboration with team members, divisions, and our extensive network. If you are eager to embrace a new challenge and have the opportunity to shape and influence a global organization, we would love to hear from you!
This position will be based in Baden, Switzerland, and you will report directly to the Global Category Manager for Iron Casting.
Your Responsibilities
- Main interface to suppliers concerning technical and quality aspects; collaborating with procurement and quality management on supplier quality topics.
- Supplier Qualification: Assess the capabilities of suppliers in sand casting and machining, including auditing supplier quality management systems and processes.
- Product and Process Qualification/Optimization: Lead a cross-functional team to conduct Product and Process Qualification (PPQ) for sand-casted components and assemblies. This includes providing technical support to suppliers to meet Accelleron Switzerland's stringent technical and quality requirements.
- Approve supplier casting processes via the submitted Manufacturing Quality Control Plan and FMEAs.
- Supplier Development: Regularly analyze supplier quality performance to support evaluations. Initiate and implement quality improvement programs, perform root cause analyses, and define appropriate risk mitigation measures. Ensure compliance with all protocols, policies, guidelines, and standards of the integrated management system.
- Participate in and lead internal quality meetings, providing qualitative analyses and evaluations of delivered sand casting parts while defining measures for sustainable improvement.
Your Background
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent experience in sand casting, foundry engineering, or materials engineering.
- Fluent in German and English is essential.
- Over 5 years of professional experience as a Casting Expert, Manufacturing Engineer, and/or Supplier Quality Engineer, with expertise in sand casting and machining.
- Experience in qualifying and developing suppliers for sand casted parts for turbochargers, utilizing the Product and Process Qualification process, equivalent to PPAP.
- Strong foundation in quality management tools, including SPC, MSA, FMEA, APQP, and PPAP, with Lean Six Sigma Greenbelt certification preferred.
- Auditor certification in ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001, and IATF 16949 is a plus.
- Proficient in problem-solving methods and organizational skills; ability to work effectively under pressure.
- Proven experience leading projects and managing virtual cross-functional teams in an international context.
- Self-motivated, driven, and independent with strong organizational, strategic, analytical thinking, and leadership abilities, alongside intercultural expertise.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, capable of building effective collaborations with others.
- Willingness to travel domestically and internationally, up to 30-40% of the time.
Your Benefits
- Attractive compensation and benefits package.
- Employee Assistance Program.
- Global parental leave program.
- Flexible working models.
Apply online using the form below. Please note that only applications matching the job profile will be considered.