Purchasing Quality Assurance Advanced Apprentice (Graduate)

Your Purpose:
Support the Purchasing Quality Assurance team in their day-to-day activities.
Work with a national and international Purchasing Quality team and support the business of Home Comfort in developing the supply base.
Role Scope:
Support the Purchasing Quality Assurance team in dealing with quality topics from purchased parts.
Support the problem solving and investigation of internal component complaints.
Dealing with internal and external cross departmental teams.
Dealing with external suppliers as required.
Support the returns to supplier & cost collection process.
Support the data management of quality complaints and supplier data.
General administrative work when required.
Key Focuses:
Support Production dealing with quality issues of purchased components.
Containment actions and problem-solving activities.
Inspection of delivered goods.
Returns to suppliers & reimbursement process.
Supplier data management in SAP.
Additional Information about the role:
Provide technical support to production and other departments regarding non-conformances.
Analysis, update and development of Purchase Quality databases as necessary.
Participate in the Continuous Improvement Process.
Other general projects or quality engineering duties as required.
Be the type of person people like interacting with, this role relies on great working relationships!
Very good communication and networking skills.
Determined and resilient, able to deal with challenges and find solutions. Attention to detail.
Possess strong analytical skills and critical thinking.
Be hands-on and have an agile mindset.
Proficient skills in MS Excel as a starting point, with experience / knowledge of more office and software applications.
Be target orientated, and able to meet deadlines.
Forward thinking, with strong organisational skills.
Proactive and self-motivated, able to work independently.
A University (academic) education, and studies in Engineering are a must to this role preferably HND or BEng in Mechanical or Manufacturing Engineering.

Employment type
Full-time

Work arrangement
No