Key Responsibilities
- Develop and execute quality management strategies for protective equipment and related product categories.
- Establish quality objectives, inspection protocols, KPI tracking, and performance metrics across suppliers and manufacturing sites.
- Ensure alignment of quality standards throughout development, validation, and mass production stages.
- Lead supplier quality performance reviews and drive continuous improvement initiatives across the vendor base.
- Conduct factory assessments and process audits to evaluate manufacturing capabilities, quality systems, and production controls.
- Partner with suppliers to implement corrective and preventive actions that improve product consistency and reduce quality risks.
- Support supplier qualification and onboarding activities for new manufacturing partners.
- Collaborate with product development and engineering teams during new product introductions.
- Review manufacturing readiness, tooling, materials, testing requirements, and process capabilities before commercialization.
- Identify and mitigate quality risks associated with materials, components, production processes, and supply chain changes.
- Support validation testing and ensure compliance with product performance and safety requirements.
- Monitor product quality throughout the manufacturing process from incoming materials through final inspection.
- Analyze quality data, identify trends, and drive timely resolution of production issues.
- Ensure robust inspection procedures and quality checkpoints are implemented across all stages of production.
- Provide regular reporting on quality performance, key risks, and improvement plans to leadership teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality Management, Materials Science or a related discipline.
- Minimum 5 years of quality management experience within protective equipment, sporting goods, automotive components, safety products, or technically engineered consumer products.
- Strong understanding of supplier quality management, manufacturing processes, product validation, and audit methodologies.
- Experience managing suppliers across Asia and driving quality improvement programs.
- Knowledge of product safety, certification, testing, and regulatory compliance requirements for protective products is highly desirable.
- Strong problem-solving, root-cause analysis, and project management skills.
- Proven ability to work effectively across cross-functional and multicultural teams.
- Fluent English communication skills; Mandarin would be advantageous.
- Willingness to travel frequently across Asia to support supplier management and factory operations.
