Site SQA Engineer

Job Description:

Valeo is a tech global company, designing breakthrough solutions to reinvent the mobility. We are an automotive supplier partner to automakers and new mobility actors worldwide. Our vision? Invent a greener and more secured mobility, thanks to solutions focusing on intuitive driving and reducing CO2 emissions. We are leader on our businesses, and recognized as one of the largest global innovative companies.

Valeo Group is one of the world's largest Automotive suppliers which is an inspired company focused on innovative products, development and customer satisfaction. Working with us means managing the most advanced and sophisticated technologies.

Our Santena plant is part of our Brain Division, the market leader in parking and driving assistance components. Valeo Smart Cookpit Italy is specialized in Switches, Human Machine Interface (HMI) control panels and displays. It offers added value in terms of service, flexibility, product know-how and in-depth knowledge of its customers to fully understand their needs and offer them optimal solutions.

As a Supplier Quality Engineer (SQE) in Valeo Santena you will have the opportunity to work with the most powerful carmaker companies, in the electronics development working in an international and multicultural environment.
These will be the main activities

Ensure 100% conformity of components supplied on a site level
* Contact supplier as soon as an issue is detected with a purchased component to get the supplier to organize the containment in 24h. Apply the QRQC (Quick Response Quality Control) /SRM (Supplier Relationship Management) /PG (Product Group) Rules to opened incident.
* Confirm the robustness of the containment by looking for recurrence after containment has been set
* Ensure the 100% yearly conformity of the purchased components in accordance with the stage 7 of the AQP.pp (Advanced Quality Planning for Product & Process)
* (Yearly Initial Samples approval with capability evidences)
* Manage the PQA (Product Quality Assurance) status (to grant a remove PQA status physically and in the system)
* Initiate, analyze, report and follow-up incidents until the PDCA (Plan Do Check Act) closure
* Initiate in SRM an incident to the supplier in accordance with the SQM (Supplier Quality Manual) after preliminary investigation on the Valeo site with Valeo site quality has been performed
* Track each incident detected on his or her site and ensure QR (Quick Response) reactivity and Full PDCA analysis is met in accordance with Group Standard : 24hrs / 5 days / 10 days rule .
* Pull daily the information from the Supplier and/or PG SQA manager and communicate during the APU (Autonomous Production Unit) and Supplier QRQC
* Escalade to PG SQA or Purchasing manager for any PG SQA or Purchasing Commodity engineer support required or for any roadblock regarding the incident problem solving activity or the yearly component conformity.
* Systematically participate to the Supplier and APU QRQC and in Plant QRQC when required

Manage, consolidate and update the following key indicators on a site level:
* Yearly conformity for all the purchased components
* Reactivity in problem solving QR reactivity (and monitor PD - CA reactivity)
* Charge back follow up

Desired skills and experience
* Master Degree (Mechanical Engineering/Materials Engineering preferred).
* Experience: 1 to 3 years in similar roles in the automotive field
* Fluent Italian (mandatory) and fluent English

Come to Valeo and discover our benefits! We offer our employees:
- The chance to profit from a customized career plan in one of the most important tech-companies worldwide!
- The possibility of knowing everything you need about Valeo and your new challenging position with a comprehensive integration plan and a customized buddy program
- Continuous training courses at work
Don´t miss the opportunity of joining us and take advantage of being part of an international company that commits to ethics, transparency, empowerment, professionalism and teamwork. At Valeo, innovation is driven by the diversity, authenticity and energy of its talents. Is that you? We want to know you!
Job:Quality - Suppliers Operational
Organization:Site SQA
Schedule:Full time
Employee Status:Regular
Job Type:Permanent contract
Job Posting Date:2026-03-23
Join Us !
Being part of our team, you will join:
- one of the largest global innovative companies, with more than 20,000 engineers working in Research & Development
- a multi-cultural environment that values diversity and international collaboration
- more than 100,000 colleagues in 31 countries... which make a lot of opportunity for career growth
- a business highly committed to limiting the environmental impact if its activities and ranked by Corporate Knights as the number one company in the automotive sector in terms of sustainable development

More information on Valeo: https://www.valeo.com