Your challenge
The Advantech Quality Team is on a journey to expand its scope from local to European. The goal is to create a unified system that connects all Advantech Europe offices. As a Quality Specialist, you’ll implement new processes, streamline workflows, and harmonize existing systems into “One Advantech.” A significant part of this role involves project management and leading audits—both internal and external. If you enjoy being a key part of quality transformation, this is the role for you.
Your responsibility
As a Quality Specialist at Advantech, your role revolves around refining processes, ensuring compliance, and fostering quality excellence across the organization. Your key responsibilities include:
- Investigating existing processes and identifying gaps against Advantech, customer, regulations and ISO standard requirements.
- Assisting departments in creating and optimizing their processes.
- Managing and supporting process management initiatives.
- Maintain the QMS – implement, monitor and improve the system and its processes.
- Managing approximately 20 audits annually (internal and external).
- Coordinating with customers and regulatory audits.
- Conducting training sessions for international colleagues on: Process description methods, ISO/Customer requirements, and internal audit procedures.
- Supporting and ensuring follow-up actions on identified risks and opportunities post-audit.
- Acting as a go-to expert for all process-related topics.
Who are you?
Process Management, especially from a quality perspective, is second nature to you. Beyond your expertise in various ISO certifications, you excel at engaging and guiding others to embrace and adhere to effective processes, even in a fast-paced, sales-driven organization like Advantech. You bring:
- A bachelor’s degree in a Scientific or Engineering field.
- 3-5 years of experience in QA and as a Lead Auditor.
- Up-to-date knowledge of ISO9001 (preferably certified) and ISO13485; knowledge of ISO14001, ISO45001, and ISO27001 is a plus.
- Proven experience in process and risk management.
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience engaging with senior management.
- Critical thinking, detail-oriented, pro-active and independent attituded.
- The ability to travel up to 10% of the time.
How do we see the future?
Our customers will continue to demand higher standards, and as a market leader, we must also hold ourselves to these high standards. Together, we will continuously strive for the next level of professionalism, enhancing our products and processes. You will be at the forefront of this endeavor!
Who is Advantech
Advantech is a leader in providing trusted, innovative products, services, and solutions for AI applications. Advantech offers comprehensive system integration, hardware, software, customer-centric design services, embedded systems, industrial automation products, and global logistics support. In Europe, we are with 500 employees from more than 45 different nationalities. Our mission is to enable an intelligent and sustainable planet.
At Advantech, we care about your added value to our company and our culture. We welcome all people to apply at our open company, disregarding race, religion, sexuality or gender (m/f/d). Advantech has zero tolerance for any form of discrimination.
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