Spin Master

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Are you a kid at heart looking to build a career with a leading global children's toy, entertainment and digital gaming company?

At Spin Master, our unwavering commitment to open mindedness, integrity and innovation is a great part of what has made us an industry leader. How do we stay ahead of the pack? By hiring the best and brightest minds—and that’s why we want you!

Job Description

What will you work on?

Manage quality, reliability, and safety compliance activities during the New Product Introduction (NPI) process to ensure that Spin Master products meet and/or exceed worldwide safety, chemical, and performance requirements, deliver optimal product reliability, and fulfill customer expectations for the product. This position will also monitor product performance in the field and pose improvements as required and use this information to anticipate and prevent issues on future products

How will you create impact?

Perform as QA core team member on project teams; as part of the new product introduction (NPI) team, attend team meetings and lead all quality, safety and reliability activities and requirements to ensure product consistently meets all regulatory and customer requirements

Coordinate internal and external testing as required and planned for the development stage.

At concept stages of development, conduct FMEA (Failure mode and effects analysis) and other reviews to drive appropriate qualification requirements for downstream stages of testing.

Act as liaison during customer trials to facilitate the process.

Key interface with global team members on program for continuity and coordination of task completion.

Analyze customer return and complaints, and issue and monitor corrective action requests to address root cause.

Ensure that packaging labelling specifications for new toys are met, and interact with the packaging department as required.

Ensure all requirements are met prior to releasing production or customer shipments.

Travel as needed to suppliers and/or customers (less than 10%)

Liaise with worldwide regulatory bodies (CPSC, Health Canada, etc.) in maintaining compliance in accordance with industry requirements; coordinate required activities promptly and effectively.

Work closely with other functional groups such as Design, Marketing, Customer Care, Sales, Planning and other divisions in Asia and Europe.

Other tasks as assigned related to the domain knowledge of QA and the toy and consumer goods industries.

Stay abreast of changing global, region-specific regulations, standards, and retailer requirements in order to anticipate potential impacts to processes or products

Maintain monthly performance metrics for key operational indicators, where needed

Maintain technical files for projects, in accordance with EU requirements

Perform Training To Other Departments As Required

What are your skills and experience?

Required Skill Sets

Problem solving abilities and FMEA /root cause analysis experience

Six sigma, lean manufacturing, kaizen highly desirable

Excellent interpersonal, communication and negotiation skills

Required Qualifications Experience

Toy industry specific experience is preferred

B.Eng / B.Sc with 5+ years relevant experience in Quality Engineering for product safety and reliability

Compliance experience with agency standards for safety or other similar requirements

Desirable experience in areas of mechanical, electro-mechanical, PLC controllers, chemical or manufacturing engineering disciplines

Experience with, and knowledge of, one or more of the following specialties desirable: consumer electronics, chemistry, food safety, plastics, clothing/fabrics

Superior team and project management skills

This job posting is tied to an open vacancy.

What You Can Expect From Us

Our mission is to Make Life More Fun with a vision to push the boundaries of innovation, creativity, and fun.

• Growth and Career Opportunities
• Flexible Work Hours
• Innovation, Collaboration and Fun
• Comprehensive Benefits
• Other fun Perks!
  
  

What’s it like to work here?

Spin Master is a fast-paced, hands-on organization that provides many great opportunities for impactful decision-making; though our challenging start-up atmosphere isn’t for everyone, we have a proven record of opportunities for future advancement and internal transfers for our passionate and results driven team.

Everyone is welcome in our sandbox and we are committed to an accessible and inclusive hiring process that provides reasonable accommodation to all applicants.

Spin Master strives to create an accessible and inclusive application and selection process and is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to job applicants who may require provisions to participate in the recruitment, selection and/or assessment processes. Should you require an accommodation, please contact our Talent Acquisition team, by email at [email protected] or by phone at +852 23138439 and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs.

We do appreciate all interest; however only those selected for interview will be contacted.