Quality Manager

What you’ll do:

The Quality Manager will lead the continuous improvement of quality performance across the Electronics Division's manufacturing operations in the Philippines. Based in Malaysia and spending approximately 70% of the time travelling to and supporting the  Philippines manufacturing site, this role will partner closely with plant and divisional teams to identify quality gaps, manage risks, strengthen problem-solving capability, and improve overall quality performance.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead continuous improvement of manufacturing quality performance, including customer complaints, defective parts per million, quality performance indicators, and first-time quality.
• Partner with cross-functional teams in the Philippines and across the Electronics Division to identify quality performance gaps, manufacturing risks, and improvement priorities.
• Drive structured corrective and preventive actions for product, process, supplier, and customer quality issues, ensuring effective root-cause analysis and sustainable closure.
• Strengthen quality performance across the manufacturing processes for molded inductors, supercapacitors, fuses, and related electronic components.
• Develop the local Philippines quality team's competencies in structured problem solving, quality tools, risk identification, and prevention.
• Engage customers and suppliers on quality concerns, corrective actions, technical discussions, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Improve the efficiency and effectiveness of problem-solving processes and promote a prevention-focused quality culture.
• Collaborate with manufacturing, engineering, operations, supplier quality, product quality, and divisional quality teams to achieve sustainable quality improvements.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor degree or plus  in electrical /electronic Engineering or related technical field.
• At least 10 years of experience in quality within electronics, electrical manufacturing, or manufacturing services, with strong exposure to plant or manufacturing quality.
• Strong knowledge of electronic component manufacturing processes and product quality, ideally with experience relevant to components such as inductors, capacitors, fuses, or similar electronic/electromechanical products.
• Strong practical capability in manufacturing quality, structured problem solving, customer quality, and supplier quality management, together with knowledge of automotive quality systems and tools.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, problem-solving, and negotiation skills, with the ability to operate independently and work effectively across manufacturing sites and functions.
• Previous experience supporting Philippines manufacturing operations, or broader Asia/international manufacturing quality and operations.
• VDA 6.3 and/or VDA 6.5 certification and practical audit experience; Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, ASQ supplier quality, or CQI special-process audit training/certification is advantageous.
• Proficiency in English is required for business communication.Proficiency in spoken and written Chinese is required to support regular technical discussions, quality investigations, corrective actions, and issue resolution with China-based stakeholders where Chinese is the primary working language.