Global Director of Quality and Product Engineering

 

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This role does not offer sponsorship for work authorization. External applicants must be eligible to work in the US.
 

Location:

The Global Director of Quality and Product Engineering position is located on site in Charlotte, NC, with domestic and international travel required.

 

Your Role:

At EMD Electronics the Director of Quality and Product Engineering supports the global Silica business having responsibility for all strategic and tactical aspects of Quality (quality strategy, quality assurance, quality control, and quality system management) and Product Engineering.  The Product Engineering aspect of the role has technical ownership of the business’ product portfolio from “cradle to grave,” working with the Silica  R&D team, manufacturing teams, and commercial teams to optimize the performance and reliability of the products at the optimal cost.  An additional aspect of the role is to lead the new product transition from development into scale-up and manufacturing deployment, and lead the internal technical support for the product ramp and release.  The Product Engineering team also owns the investigation and root cause fix implementation for performance related product issues.  The Director of Quality and Product Engineering is a hands-on working leader, and must be self-motivated, both tactical and strategic, and be comfortable with changing priorities affecting the daily work schedule.   The role reports to the Silica General Manager and is a member of the Silica Leadership Team (SLT).

 

Key Responsibilities:

• Create and execute a scalable global quality vision for the Silica business, strengthening our quality systems and culture to effectively deliver products to advanced node semiconductor customers with the expected quality assurance.  Bring Semiconductor customer expectations into this vision from personal experience.  Create meaningful and workable systems and practices so EMD’s Silica business becomes the customer-recognized benchmark for quality amongst CMP slurry suppliers.
• Manage all aspects of quality and provide technical support (quality assurance, quality control, process changes, and quality systems) for US Silica Operations and quality systems management (including maintenance of quality documents, quality records, and auditing).
• Globally manage and locally provide customer support to solve quality technical problems timely and effectively.  Ensure the global Quality and Product Engineering team has the tools and capabilities for meeting customer quality and technical support needs now and in the future.
• Be a key contact for customer quality and change management topics.
• Actively participate in leadership and management meetings and be a quality advocate and leader in the Silica Leadership Team.  Lead quality specific meetings, as necessary.
• Responsible for identifying relevant quality standards and ensure global quality systems are maintained.  Interface with corporate functions for ISO and other relevant quality systems and certifications.
• Manage the quality group’s operations budget and recommend capex investments and project manage their implementation and qualification.
• Lead global continuous improvement efforts in systems, metrology, and practices while also leading a Global Process Change Board so all changes are managed according to semiconductor customer expectations.
• Ensure product specifications meet customer performance requirements.  Define and manage product specification documents.  Work with Merck and DuPont Quality and Product Quality Engineering (PQE) teams to collect and analyze customer feedback for defining new product specifications and requirements.  Support the v