Materials Quality Engineer

About the company

This organisation works in a high-tech manufacturing environment where the quality and reliability of materials are essential. It collaborates with suppliers and teams across functions and regions to support robust manufacturing processes and continuous improvement.

For a Materials Quality Engineer, the role offers the opportunity to influence supplier quality and material performance across the supply chain. You will work with colleagues in areas including operations, research and development, commodity management and customer quality, contributing to work with broad technical and operational impact. The organisation’s global collaboration and focus on quality provide a setting in which you can apply your expertise, build strong working relationships and help strengthen processes over time.

What the job entails

As a Materials Quality Engineer, you will help ensure that suppliers and materials meet quality requirements and support reliable manufacturing. Based in Tokyo, you will assess and qualify suppliers, identify and mitigate risks, and promote continuous improvement. You will lead supplier changes, technical reviews, advanced quality planning and process-control reviews, while ensuring that changes are communicated and managed effectively.

You will drive supplier corrective and preventive actions, working closely with internal partners in Commodity Management, Operations, Research and Development, and Customer Quality, as well as global teams. The position calls for independent ownership of projects alongside effective cross-functional collaboration. It is a permanent role with the opportunity to contribute to supplier performance and material quality in a high-tech manufacturing environment.

Key requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in materials science, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering or a related discipline.
• Five to seven years’ experience in chemical or gas manufacturing, automotive, semiconductors or a related high-tech industry.
• Fluent Japanese and English.
• Understanding of chemical or gas manufacturing, raw-material management and supplier processes.
• Capability in supplier risk and quality management, including corrective and preventive actions.
• Strong technical writing, verbal communication and project management skills.
• Able to work independently and collaborate effectively across functions and with global teams.
• Willingness and ability to travel domestically and internationally, up to 10%.
• A master’s degree or PhD, direct supplier quality experience, ceramic materials knowledge, Six Sigma certification, Minitab or JMP experience, ASQ certification or equivalent, and Chinese fluency would be advantageous.