SEVERIN – a traditional German brand. For more than 60 years, we have been manufacturing and selling high-quality electrical appliances that make your life easier – for a modern lifestyle in every home. Uncomplicated and reliable, SEVERIN stands for service. For people who want quality and design within their own four walls.

For over 128 years, SEVERIN has been a byword for reliability and innovation. This means German quality from top to bottom: whether product design or material selection and processing.

Friends for Life
SEVERIN is your loyal everyday companion. Whether dealing with our customers or our dealers: we are always reliable, honest and obliging. Like a good friend, we surprise people with new products and ideas. In everything we do, one thing has top priority: our employees, partners and customers are as valuable as good friends.

SEVERIN Household Electric Appliances (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd is a wholly German owned enterprise and was set up in July, 1995 in Shenzhen.

We are a manufacture of household appliances such as coffee machines, milk frother, electric BBQs etc. The products are sold worldwide.

The company is located in Shenzhen Bao’an and is covering more than 20,000 square meters. Currently there are five hundred employees.

REPORTING RELATIONSHIPS

Direct report to Quality Engineering Director

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Team member of Floorcare division
• Introduction of new products for Severin Floorcare devision
• Support supplier selection from quality development perspective
• Work across Technology-, Support-, Sourcing- and Sales teams to prioritize assignments and manage risks/issues to ensure successful delivery with high quality
• Ensure that product teams are informed with the perspective of the suppliers
• Drive continuous improvement of product quality, through reduction and prevention of non-conformances while defining and implementing metrics to evaluate the impact of continuous improvement initiatives
• Act as the product “expert” for cross-functional team member questions and concerns

DUTIES & ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

• Develop and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure optimal quality performance
• Earlier involvement in design stage with R&D and suppliers’ collaboration
• Inspecting and testing materials, equipment, processes and products at supplier to ensure quality specifications can be met
• Challenge R&D team members project input from quality perspectives
• Developing and implementing quality standards
• Developing and implementing quality control systems
• Monitoring and analyzing quality performance
• Collaborating with suppliers to develop and implement controls and improvements
• Developing corrective actions, solutions, and improvements
• Support suppliers in 8D responses and regular quality resolution update meetings, including written investigation reports and review supplier corrective actions
• Present status of activities and special projects to Global Quality Director regularly

• Bachelor degree (preferably Electrical and/or Mechanical engineering)
• Minimum 8 years working experience in Quality Engineering and Supplier Management field. Minimal 5 years working experience in household appliances industry / floorcare industry
• Good knowledge of injection molding processes, mechanical and electronics assembly, manufacturing Efficiencies, advanced quality improvement techniques.
• Risk management experience
• Strong experience of quality tools and methodology
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills and teamwork spirit
• Excellent analytical and problem resolving abilities
• Appropriate qualification in quality management
• Able to work under pressure with tight timeline
• Familiar with quality statistic and analyse tools and ad hoc reportings
• Ability to travel
• Fluent English and Mandarin is a must

If you are interested, please send your CV to Ms. Chen by Akilina.Chen@severin.com