Product Engineer - South Asia- Office Depot Merchandising (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.

Office Depot, Inc., is a global supplier of office products and services. The Company was incorporated in 1986 with the opening of our first retail store in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States. Today, we’re one of the largest office supply and solutions providers in the world. Office Depot sells in three major categories: supplies, technology, and furniture. Every day, Office Depot is Taking Care of Business for millions of customers around the globe. For the local corner store as well as Fortune 500 companies, Office Depot provides products and services to its customers through 1,705 worldwide retail stores, a dedicated sales force, top-rated catalogs and a $4.9 billion e-commerce operation. Office Depot has annual sales of approximately $15.5 billion, and employs about 52,000 associates around the world. The Company provides more office products and services to more customers in more countries than any other company, and currently sells to customers directly
or through affiliates in 48 countries. Office Depot entered into Asia market more than 10 years ago. So far Office Depot has business in China, Japan, Korea, India and Thailand.  Office Depot Merchandising (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd is the Global Sourcing Office for the whole Office Depot world. Global Sourcing Office is the location for a rapidly expanding sourcing operation for products, which will reduce the dependency on third party agencies for the hundreds of millions of products it procures in the region.   Global Sourcing Office was established in 2007 in Shenzhen. It is the first office of Global Sourcing. Function consists of Merchandising, Supply Chain, Packaging, Quality Assurance & Compliance, HR and Finance.  Now Office Depot Merchandising (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd is looking for high calibre to fill the following position:

1. For assigned product lines, establishes quality assurance strategies for Asia Sourcing that ensure the highest quality, regulatory compliance and safety of Private Brand products at the lowest possible cost.
2. Leads the work of in-country sourcing agents and service provider companies providing product quality/engineering services to Office Depot and its suppliers.
3. Manage factory/product qualification activities to ensure new private brand products meet or exceed quality, safety and regulatory requirements.
4. Communicates and trains quality assurance policies to all departments, agents, suppliers, quality service providers and factories. Maintains scorecard to measure the frequency of quality infractions.
5. Advise management on overall quality of products.
6. Reviews and verifies effectiveness of factory developed corrective action plans.
7. Develops product performance requirements jointly with merchandising, suppliers and laboratories.
8. Reviews major engineering changes for safety and performance as well as on-site investigations leading to the resolution of customer complaints.
9. Contribute quality/engineering expertise throughout the product lifecycle from new product development through sourcing and production.
10. Any other assignment/project designated by the supervisor.
Requirement:

Bachelors Degree in Engineering
Min. 3 years of work experience in quality assurance. Experience with safety listing agency approvals such as FCC, UL, ETL, CSA.
Experience with continuous improvement methodologies.
Supplier Quality Management experience