APQP Engineer

If you’ve worn a pair of glasses, we’ve already met.

We are a global leader in the design, manufacture, and distribution of ophthalmic lenses, frames, and sunglasses. We offer our industry stakeholders in over 150 countries access to a global platform of high-quality vision care products (such as the Essilor brand, with Varilux, Crizal, Eyezen, Stellest and Transitions), iconic brands that consumers love (such as Ray-Ban, Oakley, Persol, Oliver Peoples, Vogue Eyewear and Costa), as well as a network that offers consumers high-quality vision care and best-in-class shopping experiences (such as Sunglass Hut, LensCrafters, Salmoiraghi & Viganò and the GrandVision network), and leading e-commerce platforms.

The VisilabGroup, part of the globally operating company EssilorLuxottica, is the No. 1 optician in Switzerland with the brands Visilab, Kochoptik, McOptic, and Linsenmax, and 170 stores.

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To lead and coordinate Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) activities to ensure new product launches and engineering changes meet customer quality requirements from concept to production. The APQP Engineer collaborates with cross-functional teams to implement robust quality planning tools (e.g., NPI, PFMEA, Control Plan), drives early identification of risks, and ensures readiness of production processes to deliver consistent, defect-free products.

My day at EssilorLuxottica

• To lead design & process FMEA to eliminate critical potential failure mode, ensure necessary control actions implemented for new product launching.

• Working with technical function, NPI planning and related cross-function team to support new model development from product quality prospective as well as evaluating the manufacturing process feasibility.

• To guide related team follow standard APQP workflow for qualification of product, process, mold, tools…etc for mass production readiness.

• To lead new product APQP gate release and validate all necessary deliverables per each phase

• Taking lead on problem solving with proper quality tools, verifying improvement actions in systematic and documented manner

• Learning from Good & Bad cases, and keep sharing documented lesson learns to cross-functions

Must have

• Minimum 2 years APQP or NPI product quality working experiences. 

• Minimum college degree, major in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering or related.

• English communication skills required

• Familiar with office software.

• Good interpersonal skills.

• Preferable experiences in optical/sunglass frame NPI, engineering, production or quality experience.

• Skills in quality tools, statistic control methods

• Good problem analysis and solving skills.

• Familiar with six sigma methodology.