Senior Manager - Supplier Quality

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 its products to over 20,000 customers globally through our direct sales force, applications engineering staff, sales representatives, as well as through our extensive website.

Who We Are

Respect

We celebrate the diversity of backgrounds and perspectives that make our community strong, and we believe every team member plays an important part in sustaining our success and continued growth.

Recognition

We're a close-knit company where your work will get noticed. We reward our employees for their contributions with competitive compensation and benefits packages, continuous training and opportunities for advancement.

Opportunity

Team members join Mini-Circuits and stay because we offer the professional freedom and supportive environment, they need to achieve personal and professional growth that just wouldn't be possible in most organizations. We always look to promote from within, and many new hires stay on for decades.

Fun

Need a ping-pong break? No problem. Great at trivia?  Bring it on!  We believe a healthy organization starts with healthy, happy team members. We want everyone to enjoy their time at Mini-Circuits and to strike a healthy balance between personal and professional fulfillment.

What Your Role Will Be:

As a key member of the Global Sourcing organization’s leadership team, reporting to the Director of Global Sourcing, the Senior Manager of Supplier Quality will be responsible for developing and executing a supplier quality vision and strategy that will drive best practices and a culture of quality across the entirety of Mini-Circuits’ global supply base, ensuring the company’s quality standards are maintained at all times.  In this highly visible role, you will build and lead a global team that will collaborate with our Suppliers, as well as our Engineering, Quality & Reliability, Manufacturing, Product Management, and Supply Chain teams to support Mini-Circuits’ commitment to meet our customer’s requirements, exceed their expectations, and continuously improve every day!

Salary Range: $156,000 - $234,000 per year

What You Will Be Responsible For:

• Drive best practices across Mini-Circuits supply base which emphasize continuous improvement with a focus on preventing defects at the root level and variability / waste reduction
• 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.
• Rapidly synthesize, assess, and communicate quality findings to senior leaders as required to ensure appropriate level of visibility
• Develop, maintain, and enforce quality policies, procedures, standards, and controls across Mini-Circuits’ supply base
• Effectively collaborate with Mini-Circuits Quality / Reliability teams and Daughter Companies globally to align on needs, priorities, and quality roadmaps
• Develop and lead effective supplier quality activities across our supply base such as Quality Improvement Plans (QIP) and new/existing supplier audits
• Support the Mini-Circuits 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 our process capabilities (Supplier qualification / onboarding, product qualification, non-conforming material, process audits, etc)
• Implementation of appropriate quality tools across our supply base (APQP, PPAP, FMEA, etc)
• Meet or exceed annual supplier quality objectives as agreed upon with management
• Issue regular and detailed reporting to management on key quality metrics and other areas as required
• Maintain clear, effective, and regular communicati