Quality Assurance Manager

Overview

Who We Are

 

FUJIFILM Electronic Materials, U.S.A., Inc., is a global leader in chemical solutions which enable the semiconductor industry and the digital universe. We have an exciting opportunity at our Pueblo, CO facility for a Quality Assurance Manager!

 

With state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities in the U.S., Europe, Taiwan, China, Korea and Japan, local sales offices throughout the world and on-site applications support, FUJIFILM Electronic Materials supplies the world's top tier semiconductor manufacturers with a broad array of products and services used throughout the semiconductor manufacturing process.

 

The Role

 

The Quality Assurance Manager implements and directs a growing quality organization for improving current processes/systems to achieve extraordinary performance to exceed customer (Intel, Texas Instruments, Micron, GlobalFoundries, Samsung and others) requirements.  Supports alignment by working with responsible counterparts at all FFEM sites. Assures quality products and processes by establishing and enforcing quality standards.

 

Responsible for developing and maintaining a quality assurance system that is consistently applied by all quality processes in Pueblo that promotes customer satisfaction and that positively impacts the performance of FEUS. Champions continuous improvement efforts and defect reduction initiatives by establishing an effective Quality Management system. Initiates and implements quality improvement activities as appropriate (e.g., Six Sigma) to raise the performance of the company’s products. Educates and trains employees as to their impact in the quality management systems. 

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Key responsibilities for this role include:

• Responsible for leadership and overall quality program to meet customer needs.
• Provides overall management and strategic direction of the quality assurance team in Pueblo.
• Develops, promotes, implements, and directs the management and full integration of a QMS.
• Serves as a quality assurance resource for problem identification, resolution, and continuous improvement within the Pueblo site.
• Supports concurrent engineering efforts by participating in design development projects representing quality assurance and the customer.
• Translates quality requirements into a quality program by designing and implementing procedures for process control, process improvement, testing and inspection.
• Establishes and implements consistent metrics (process capability, control charts, measurement quality) for monitoring system effectiveness to enable managers to make sound quality decisions that will be practiced across product lines.
• Performs root-cause analysis and other problem-solving activities to identify effective corrective actions and process improvements.
• Establishes a consistent method for collection and analysis systems of statistical data to predict trends that will affect improvement of product quality within FEUS.
• Analyzes customers’ product specifications to establish efficient, cost-effective requirements for ease of manufacture and reproducibility.
• Monitors vendor quality performance and works with Supply Chain management to drive vendor quality improvements through leveraging supplier quality engineering.
• Reviews customer quality contracts and change requests and ensures that the necessary criteria and provisions are included in quality and process plans.
• Interacts with customers to identify opportunities to improve quality and establishes feedback with manufacturing and development personnel.
• Reports quality issues, trends and losses to Operations leadership and other senior management.
• Participates in internal and external quality audits.
• Drives Quality Incident free culture within FEUS, supplier quality and metrology, excursion reduction, change control and management processes.
• Interfaces with suppliers and customer quality representatives concerning problems with quality control and assure that effective corrective actions are implemented.
• All other reasonable duties as assigned.

 

REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering, Chemistry or related scientific discipline, Masters’ degree in Chemical Engineering preferred.
• Minimum 15 years’ experience and demonstrated competence in QA system implementation and management.
• Minimum 10 years’ experience in the semiconductor or semiconductor supplier industry dealing directly with semiconductor companies is preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years’ recent experience in hands on manufacturing experience.
• Demonstrated ability to effective