Parts Engineer (Tuas)

JOB DESCRIPTION

Department: Product Design

Reports to: Head of Parts Engineering Section

Functional Relationships with: Process Engineering, Yield Engineering, Product Design

Position Profile:
Based in: Singapore

Job site: Tuas

Successful candidate will: Responsible for the technical development, qualification, and quality management of battery cell parts and suppliers. Work with internal teams and suppliers to resolve issues, improve quality and cost, and support project and compliance requirements.

Key Duties & Responsibilities

• Support new product introduction, production-line expansion, engineering changes, and supplier-change projects for battery cell parts.
• Review drawings, specifications, materials, and supplier proposals to ensure manufacturability, quality, reliability, cost, and productivity requirements are achieved.
• Coordinate technical evaluations, sample reviews, trial builds, validation testing, and approval of new parts and suppliers.
• Lead cost-down, alternative material and supplier evaluation, design standardization, and business continuity improvement activities.
• Monitor supplier performance through audits, scorecards, defect trends, corrective actions, and continuous improvement programs.
• Lead investigations of part- and supplier-related quality issues using structured tools such as 8D, 5 Why, Fishbone, FMEA, and SPC.
• Collaborate with Design, Process Engineering, Manufacturing, Procurement, QA, Sales, HQ teams, and suppliers to resolve technical issues and meet project milestones.
• Maintain technical documents, reports, procedures, qualification records, and project tracking information to support QMS and audit requirements.

Ability / Competency Required

• Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Material Science and Physics.
• Must be able to use Microsoft Office applications effectively.
• At least 2 years’ experience in manufacturing, supplier quality, product design, process engineering, quality engineering, NPI, or cost-down projects is preferred.
• Experience in battery cells, electronics, mechanical parts, plastics, metal parts, or high-volume manufacturing will be an advantage.
• Knowledge of using SolidWorks, JMP, Minitab will be good.
• Communicates, negotiates confidently & effectively.
• Analytical, logical and possess excellent troubleshooting skills.
• Energetic self-starter who anticipates challenges and proactively drives continuous improvements