Катерина

Experience
05/2026 HEAD of the Quality Control Department, NDA
• Organizing and improving the work of the Quality Control Department.
• Ensuring oversight of testing for finished products and the preparation of documentation certifying product quality.
• Developing methods for conducting quality control at various stages of the product life cycle.
• Selection and provision of resources, ensuring their compliance with manufacturing processes.
• Development and implementation of corrective and preventive actions (CAPA).
• Handling complaints, investigating the causes of defects and violations of production technology, deterioration in work quality, and the release of defective products.
• Monitoring the implementation of necessary measures to increase the accountability of all production units for the release of products in accordance with established requirements, including the suspension of acceptance and shipment of substandard products.
• Mapping the Company’s Business Processes - Analyzing all of the company’s core and support business processes in collaboration with department heads and process owners. Identifying stages, operations, areas of responsibility, and key risks.
• Developing a system of control points — Defining mandatory control actions for each process based on the level of risk. For some processes, a single control point may be sufficient, while more complex or high-risk processes may require several sequential checks.
• For example, during the receipt of secondary raw materials, control points may include: photographing and videotaping the goods; weighing; recording the weighing results; verifying that the actual goods match the accompanying documents; and storing supporting documentation in a designated system.
• Integration of controls into business processes — Incorporating control points into regulations, job descriptions, checklists, information systems, and the day-to-day operations of departments. Designating responsible employees, setting deadlines, and establishing forms of confirmation for the completion of each control.
• Organizing random inspections of control implementation—Conducting scheduled and unscheduled inspections of how company employees actually carry out established control procedures. Analyzing the quality of photo and video documentation, documents, system records, approvals, and other supporting evidence.
• Identifying violations and monitoring the correction of deficiencies—Documenting unfulfilled or only formally fulfilled controls, determining the causes of deviations, preparing recommendations, and

07/2025 SUPPLIER QUALITY MANAGER, NDA
• Supplier Audits: Assessing contractors’ production capabilities and quality management systems.
• Nonconformity Control: Investigating the causes of component defects and implementing corrective actions (CAPA).
• Performance Metrics: Tracking supplier performance (KPIs) and supporting decisions regarding order allocation.
• Standards management: Ensuring that deliveries comply with international requirements (e.g., ISO 9001, IATF 16949)
• ECN implementation

11/2023 SENIOR QUALITY SUPPLY ENGINEER, AJAX
• SCAR handling, communication with vendors, suppliers & distributors;
• Supplier auditing - performing suppliers audits and monitoring their improvements;
• Monitoring the status and release of material from blocked warehouses (RTV, Quarantine).
• engineering changes implementing

07/2021
SUPPLIER QUALITY ENGINEER, FLEX
Responsibilities:
• Supplier Selection: select the suitable supplier with joint-effort of sourcing on aspects of quality, capability, pricing, delivery, environment, society regulation, etc. against customer requirements.
• Supplier Qualification: implement the new supplier qualification thru the process of capability matching, supplier risk assessment, supplier self-assessment, onsite qualification audit;
• VEA (Value-Added Engineering Activity): understand customer drawing, specification to feedback value-added engineering proposal to customer and supplier for optimization of supplier manufacturing process or products.
• Material (Component) Qualification: PPAP include FAI, Material Certificates, Quality/Process Control Plan, FMEA, MSA, Process Parameter Sheet, RoHS compliance, COC, etc.
• Hot Issue Solution and Trouble Shooting: working as SME (Subject Matter Expert) to help on supplier quality hot issues and trouble shooting. (CFT – customer focused team participation on daily base)
• Hold up Supplier CIP (Continuous Improvement Program): helping suppliers to use the quality tools to improve manufacturing process and product quality.
• Performing quality audits on suppliers to assure products and services meet International Organization for Standards (ISO) and regulatory standards.
Material control:
• Creating instructions for inspection of incoming materials, considering the requirements of customers. Ensures acceptable quality of incoming raw materials from suppliers (AQL).
• Monitoring the status and release of material from blocked warehouses (RTV, Quarantine).
SCAR handling:
• Escalating quality issues with incoming material to suppliers. Submits claims for raw material quality issues to the supplier with an evaluation of the received 8D reports. Processing the commercial part of complaints and facilitates further follow-up of compensation. Analyzing indicators of incoming control with determination of measures for improvement. Return material authorization (RMA) handling.
• Supplier Rating Score calculation;

07/2019
SENIOR QUALITY INSPECTOR DEPARTMENT PLASTIC( FLEX)
• Responsible for the quality control part at plastic production.
• Verification part quality during IMM set up;
• Outcoming (Out of Box Audit) inspection for produced parts;
• Process control of the running production;
• Assistance in problem solving meetings on the shift.

06/2017
VISUAL INSPECTOR, YADZAKI

Visual checking of Finish Good after the assembly process.

Education
2002- 2005
Accounting, KTEK

Languages

• English- Upper Intermediate( B2)
• Українська - рідна

SKILLs
Soft Skills
• ability to work in a team;
• critical thinking;
• ability to meet deadlines;
• responsibility and discipline.
Hard Skills
• Computer Skills:Agile- system for tracking ECO,
Baan- system for material tracking;
Total Material Loss system;
Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, )
MiniTab (statistical tool);
Jira
• leadership;
• creativity;

• Internal Auditor/Specialist of Integrated Management Systems ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015, ISO45001:2018
• Second partly auditor ISO 9001:2015 ( supplier auditor)