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This position reports to:
Continuous Improvement Manager

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Your Role and Responsibilities

We are now looking for a new Supplier Quality Manager to join our team at ABB Oy, Smart Power in Vaasa. As a Supplier Quality Manager you will play a key part in ensuring supplier quality performance, supporting business growth and driving continuous improvement together with internal stakeholders and external suppliers. Your main focus will be on leading and developing a team of professionals responsible for supplier-related activities; quality, testing, and tooling to ensure that supplied products meet quality requirements. In addition, you will be responsible for planning and conducting supplier audits. In this position, you play a key role in the quality processes of the world's leading automated low-voltage switch factory.

The work model for the role is: hybrid

Additionally, you will be accountable for:

• Monitoring and reporting supplier quality KPIs and targets
• Leading root cause analysis (RCA) for supplier quality issues
• Developing and verifying corrective and preventive action plans (CAPA)
• Driving continuous improvement initiatives with suppliers (Lean, Six Sigma, FMEA)
• Identifying process improvement opportunities from supplier quality data
• Working cross-functionally with procurement, engineering, and operations
• Supporting supplier approval and onboarding processes

Qualifications for the Role

• Master's or Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related technical field
• Minimum 5 years of experience in quality-related positions from an industrial environment
• Ability to lead a team and support team members in achieving targets
• Working knowledge of Quality tools: 8D, FMEA, SPC, MSA, PPAP, Minitab as well as Root Cause Analysis methods
• Clear communication in English, both written and spoken
• Capabilities for independent decision‑making
• Familiarity with industry related standards and compliance
• Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt

Benefits

Our culture and benefits reflect our values: courage, care, curiosity and collaboration. The most appreciated benefits according to our personnel are at the moment e.g. an annual performance bonus, employee share acquisition program, continuous learning opportunities, and other wellbeing and family benefits. We have a hybrid working model.

More about us

ABB Smart Power provides energy distribution solutions for data centers, industrial and manufacturing plants, critical infrastructure and commercial buildings. The Division's technical teams work closely with industry partners, delivering advanced solutions that support rapid growth, energy transition, and sustainability objectives. The Division's portfolio includes industrial circuit breakers, low-voltage systems, motor starting applications, and safety devices like switches and relays. Its Power Protection unit supports the world's largest data center companies with advanced energy-efficient UPS solutions. The Division's ABB Ability™ Energy Manager provides a scalable, easy-to-use platform that helps.

If you have questions, please contact Henna Sjöholm, Quality & Continuous Improvement Manager, Henna.sjoholm@fi.abb.com. Note! We can only accept applications through our official recruitment system. This email contact is for inquiries and further questions only. Apply for the position by May 5th, 2026. We look forward to receiving your application.

Join us. Be part of the team where progress happens, industries transform, and your work shapes the world. Run What Runs the World. The work model for the role is: #LI-hybrid

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