Quality Manager

About the Position

Main assignments, responsibilities and authorities

• In your position as a manager at Höganäs, you are responsible for driving quality initiatives in line with the overall objectives of improving service, ensuring that internal directives and rules are followed and to see to it that pertinent laws regarding occupational health, safety and environment are complied with. You are also responsible for having required permits and certifications in place.
• People management includes assigning work, leading and managing work, ensuring that the employees have access to necessary information, skill development and appraisals.
• Supplier Management: Control incoming material quality, audit, rectify, rate, and eliminate supplier anomalies.
• Process and operation management: Design and optimize the process and management system of all aspects of the quality, responsible for the effective running of quality for China market including IQC, FQC, OQC, measurement calibration, QC lab management, system management, SQE, CQE, improve the overall response speed and operational efficiency, and establish a risk early warning mechanism, customer satisfaction and longer term growth and development within business procedures.

• Cross-departmental collaboration: Work closely with R&D, production, sales, supply chain and other departments to provide suggestions for product research and development from the perspective of the quality, ensure the smooth implementation of products, and jointly promote the realization of the company's overall goals.
• Data management: Monthly defect rates, scrap rates, customer complaint rates, weekly/monthly quality reports, and following up improvement results.

Supervision and management

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• Quality team members including QC lab & QA.

Knowledge, capabilities and motivation

• Educational background: Bachelor’s degree or above.
• Work experience: 5 years and above quality management experience is required, including 5 years of team management experience, and a background in the materials manufacturing industry is preferred.
• Professional skills: Proficient in using quality improvement tools and mastering the quality management system.
• Language ability: English level 4 or above, proficient in English communication.
• Personal traits: Excellent leadership, communication and coordination skills, strong logical thinking, data analysis and problem-solving skills, good team spirit and pressure resistance.

Physical demands and working environment

Special conditions such as significant physical needs (e.g., mobility, manual handling, PPE requirements, etc.). General work environment (e.g., office, production site, off-site location, etc.).

General working environment

Communication/Interface

External communication can be written or verbal, but it must be a more frequent part of the job and with a certain complexity.

• Internal: various departments of Höganäs (China) Co., Ltd. and relevant departments of the group's subsidiaries.
• External: Customers, suppliers, partners, government agencies, trade unions, interest groups, and other parties involved in responsibility.

Other

Occasional domestic and international business travel

Working at Höganäs

We aim to offer a great and meaningful place to work where you can fulfill your potential and ambitions. We welcome all applicants and strive for diversity. We have a clear management philosophy, and just like us you believe that through collaboration and openness we develop as individuals and as a company. We see all employees, regardless of position, as leaders when we approach the challenges that the world - and we - face. Höganäs ambition is to lead the transformation to better meet the needs of tomorrow and become the preferred supplier of sustainable metal powder on a global scale – join us in our journey of sustainable change and towards net-zero climate emissions.

More about Höganäs

Founded in 1797, Höganäs is the world leader in the market for powders, with an annual capacity of 500,000 tonnes. Höganäs’ vision is to drive positive change through material innovation, with the ambition of becoming the globally preferred partner for sustainable powder materials.

The company’s strength lies in its diverse backgrounds, perspectives and experiences, and Höganäs is committed to an inclusive and diverse workplace. Höganäs collaborates with customers across multiple industries to develop innovative solutions, including applications in automotive components, electric motors, brazing, surface coating, welding consumables and additive manufacturing. Operating 15 production centers worldwide and employing 2,200 people, Höganäs’ turnover for 2025 was 11,045 MSEK. Höganäs is owned by Lindéngruppen and FAM. www.hoganas.com

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