Quality Assurance Engineer

1. Factory audit, including new factory initial audit before on board, PSA, and regular inline audit.

2. Identify safety issues and anticipate possible risks during development and production stage and drive factory to mitigate risk to acceptable level.

3. Communicate effectively with suppliers to ensure products can pass safety and quality testing requirements.

4. Ensure Suppliers understand and comply with quality procedures and monitor performance by site visiting and quantitative measurements.

5. Streamline process control in the factory to prevent any potential quality issues.

6. Lead suppliers to improve their quality system and performance by audit factories, on site coaching, including traceability of materials and components.

7. Make preventative action plans for frequent quality problems, and drive root cause analysis and corrective / preventive measures.

8. Coordinating with QA and cross functions in Vietnam, China and New York Office.

9. Work closely with vendors, suppliers, relevant subcontractors, 3rd party labs, e.g. SGS, BV, QIMA

1. College degree or above

2. At least 3 years’ experience as QA in toy/ juvenile production or in 3rd party lab.

3. Familiar with toy product requirements, like ASTM and EN standards for hard plastic toys, electronic toys, plush toys, etc. and toy product manufacturing processes, injection, sewing, assembly, packing etc.

4. Good communication skills in English. Chinese speaking will be a plus.

5. Knows ISO9001 quality system.

6. Experience with both soft goods and hard goods will be a big plus.

7. Capability of leadership to drive vendors to improve their quality performance.

8. Trained in Toy US and EN requirements, and factory audit skills.