Component Quality Specialist – Empty Components Lab

About the role

The Empty Components Lab (ECL) Specialist will oversee all incoming inspections of empty components and packaging materials, ensuring they meet quality and regulatory standards before release to production. This onsite role requires close coordination with production schedules, laboratory management, and supplier quality activities.

Key responsibilities

• Supervise incoming inspections of empty components and packaging materials.
• Execute sampling plans according to approved procedures.
• Verify compliance with specifications, drawings, standards, and quality agreements.
• Review and approve inspection results prior to material release.
• Coordinate inspection priorities to support production schedules.
• Manage daily operations of the Empty Components Lab, including equipment calibration and maintenance.
• Develop and implement testing methods and inspection procedures.
• Monitor laboratory performance metrics and turnaround times.
• Maintain accurate inspection and laboratory records.
• Support internal and external supplier audits.
• Lead investigations into component defects and quality issues, raising and managing non‑conformance reports.
• Monitor recurring supplier quality issues and ensure measurement traceability.
• Provide OSH information, training, and risk‑assessment assistance.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or Materials Science.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in quality inspection or quality assurance within an industrial setting.

Required skills

• ISO 9001 quality‑management standards.
• ISO/IEC 17025 laboratory accreditation.
• Equipment calibration and maintenance.
• Non‑conformance reporting and corrective‑action management.
• Supplier audit and quality‑issue monitoring.
• Risk assessment and occupational safety & health (OSH) practices.