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Director Quality
Mini-CircuitsUnited Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 20 Mar 2025
💰 $250,000/yr($200,000/yr – $250,000/yr)
About the role
Mini-Circuits designs, manufactures and distributes integrated circuits, modules, and sub-systems for high performance radio frequency (RF) and microwave applications. With design, sales and manufacturing locations in over 30 countries, Mini-Circuits’ products are used in a range of wired and wireless communications applications. Our products are also used in detection, measurement and imaging applications, including military communication, guidance and electronic countermeasure systems, commercial, scientific, military land, sea and aircraft; automotive systems, medical systems, and industrial test equipment.Mini-Circuits’ sells our products to over 20,000 customers globally through our direct sales force, applications engineering staff, sales representatives, as well as through our extensive web site.
Position Summary:The Director Quality is a hands-on leader, responsible for the leadership and harmonization of the quality function across all Mini-Circuits product design and manufacturing sites. This responsibility is focused on defining, articulating and executing (through the local quality assurance teams and with the support of the local general managers), a consistent set of quality policies, metrics and reporting process. The unification of quality practices must consider the unique differences in manufacturing processes at the various locations, while incorporating best in class practices, policies and procedures. The Director Quality must work in support of the local managers to assess their quality systems, identify gaps and opportunities for improvement and support the acquisition of talent and systems to achieve the corporate quality standards and objectives. In addition, the role has the direct responsibility for consolidating and reporting quality metrics for the entire enterprise across all product lines. Local quality management is solid line reporting to the local general managers, and dotted line (indirect) reporting into the Director Quality Salary Range: $200,000 - $250,000 per year
Job Function:
Position Summary:The Director Quality is a hands-on leader, responsible for the leadership and harmonization of the quality function across all Mini-Circuits product design and manufacturing sites. This responsibility is focused on defining, articulating and executing (through the local quality assurance teams and with the support of the local general managers), a consistent set of quality policies, metrics and reporting process. The unification of quality practices must consider the unique differences in manufacturing processes at the various locations, while incorporating best in class practices, policies and procedures. The Director Quality must work in support of the local managers to assess their quality systems, identify gaps and opportunities for improvement and support the acquisition of talent and systems to achieve the corporate quality standards and objectives. In addition, the role has the direct responsibility for consolidating and reporting quality metrics for the entire enterprise across all product lines. Local quality management is solid line reporting to the local general managers, and dotted line (indirect) reporting into the Director Quality Salary Range: $200,000 - $250,000 per year
Job Function:
- Technical Quality
- Identify and drive approved unified quality procedures and compliance projects at all sites ensuring consistency, best practices, while adapting to product and manufacturing process uniqueness. All processes and products must meet high internal standards and regulatory requirements and ultimately deliver high-quality, cost-effective products to the customer.
- Responsible for ensuring that all quality systems across all manufacturing sites are in full compliance with applicable regulatory requirements and are aligned with corporate quality policies.
- Establish corporate guidelines for quality data collection and reporting and provide technical direction and support to all sites on the implementation of quality data collection, metrics analysis, trending and report generation in accordance with these guidelines.
- Assess, analyze and work with the local general managers to ensure that all QA responsibilities including training, investigations, complaints, change control, document control, incoming inspection, manufacturing/lab oversight and failure analysis are implemented and maintained across all manufacturing sites in compliance with all corporate quality policies and programs.
- Maintain a strong independent role as it relates to supporting compliance-related decisions.
- Supplier Quality
- Implement strategies and processes to drive supplier performance improvement.
- Address and resolve supplier quality issues with a sense of urgency ensuring interim containment as appropriate, root causes are identified, and corrective actions are implemented and validated effective.
- Develop and lead effective supplier quality activities across our supply base such as Quality Improvement Plans (QIP) and new/existing supplier audits.
- Partner with the Strategic Sourcing team on new and sustaining supply base initiatives.
- Support new product initiatives by ensuring supplier capabilities meet our required quality standards.
- Ensure all major suppliers to Mini-Circuits have an effective Quality Management System capable of supporting our quality requirements.
- Ongoing development of process capabilities (Supplier qualification / onboarding, product qualification, non-conforming material, process audits, etc)
- Implementation of appropriate quality tools across supply base (APQP, PPAP, FMEA, etc)
- Meet or exceed annual supplier quality o
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