Director of Quality

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

• Lead SiC LLC Quality Function 
  • Build strong organization quality talent in SiC LLC plants.
  • Actively engage in resolving customer quality issues and prepare for customer audits. Drive total customer satisfaction.
  • Coach the plants towards a culture of prevention.
  • Establish strategic quality direction within the plants.
  • Teach advanced Quality classes at the plants.
  • Establish a culture of intelligent risk-taking and guide the plants in choices to help exploit strategic opportunities.
  • Lead in strategic decision-making, and in tactical decision making within important risk-saturated areas.
  • Ensure Quality systems are aligned with identified best-practices.
  • Lead and manage the quality functions at SiC LLC plants.
  • Design and lead production of various dashboards accurately depicting quality product and process status in all plants.
• Create and Maintain QMS Alignment with the Coherent Global Quality System 
  • Ensure Quality Manual aligns with Coherent Corporate Global Quality manual.
  • Establish and maintain a process for “Preventive Action Efficiency” to drive mistake-proofing in the factories.
  • Implement and maintain Coherent Global COQ process.
  • Implement and maintain coherent Global KPI process.
  • Implement and maintain Coherent Global QBR.
  • Implement and maintain Coherent Global Risk Assessment process.
  • Implement and maintain the Coherent Global QAT-based assessment QMS effectiveness.
  • Implement and maintain Coherent Global Purge process.
  • Implement and maintain Coherent Global Quality Stop process.
  • Implement and maintain Coherent Global NPI process.
  • Implement and maintain Coherent Global PCN process.
• Lead the Development and Implementation of IAFT 16949 QMS 
  • Conceive, design, develop, implement, and continually improve an IATF 16949 certified QMS.
  • Lead efforts to identify, develop, proceduralize, and implement best quality AIAG practices in all SiC LLC plants.
  • Guide best practice design and deployment of processes for PPAP, SPC, MSA, APQP, and FMEA.
  • Implement Coherent Corporate Global internal quality audit process to ensure continual compliance and improvement of the automotive QMS.
  • Design and implement periodic Management Review processes to drive continual improvements.
  • Implement the Coherent Corporate Global 8D corrective action database and ensure its optimum usage.
  • Develop and maintain a Quality Manual.
• Implement and maintain key complimentary processes within SiC LLC
  • Export compliance is maintained.
  • Ensure implementation and maintenance of Coherent Lean process.
  • Implement and maintain necessary ESD processes.
  • Implement and maintain necessary ESG processes.
  • A quality work environment consistent with 6S practices is maintained.
  • Assure regulatory compliance in product-related areas such as RoHS, REACH, and Conflict Minerals.

Education & Experience

• M.S. in technical field, preferably Statistics, Mathematics, or Industrial Engineering.
• Extensive experience with Quality Sciences and Quality Management.
• 20 years Quality Engineering, Quality Management, or Quality Consulting.
• 15 years of experience electronics or semiconductor manufacturing.
• 20 years of experience in internal quality audit.
• 10 years of experience managing tier-1 or tier-2 customer audits.
• 10 years of experience in using structured techniques to solve complex problems.
• Awareness of PPAP, FMEA, MSA, Control Plan, and SPC techniques.
• Awareness of lean manufacturing techniques.
• Due to ITAR compliance, this position requires candidates to be a U.S. Citizen, Permanent Resident Alien, or Protected Individual per 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3). 

Skills & Other Requirements

• Expert Knowledge of the ISO 9001 criteria.
• Awareness and understanding of the IATF 16949 criteria.
• Process characterization and control techniques.
• Able to balance financial and quality objectives.
• Statistical expertise including FMEA, SPC, DOE, MSA, Process Capability.
• Able to understand AIAG process control plans.
• Able to facilitate cross-functional Kaizen Events.
• Solve complex problems using intuition, induction, deduction, analysis of data, and advanced quality tools, and structured problem-solving methods.
• Effectively work in cultures throughout North America, Europe, and Asia.
• Able to think critically and to reengineer all e