Manage and support employees located both in-person and remote, ensuring inclusive communication, balanced workload distribution, and effective collaboration with local plants and global partners.
Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development planning.
Build technical capability through structured training, mentorship, and knowledge sharing across chemistry, membrane, mechanical fabrication, supplier quality, and raw material management disciplines.
Promote collaboration, clear communication, and trust.
MQE Pillar Leadership
Engage and influence Japan plant teams, global MQE partners, APS and MS business stakeholders, Procurement, R&D, Customer Quality, and suppliers to build alignment, clarify decision rights, and drive timely execution across all pillars.
Communicate clearly and respectfully, translating complex technical and program information into concise, actionable insights tailored to engineers, leadership, suppliers, and customers.
Provide technical guidance on investigations and prevention across chemistry, membranes, and mechanical fabrication commodities, including failure analysis, root cause, SPC, FMEA, control plans, and risk mitigation.
Represent MQE as a steady, credible, and solutions‑oriented leader during audits, escalations, supplier reviews, and cross‑functional forums, ensuring a consistent voice and disciplined follow-through.
Ensure consistent MQE support for Entegris manufacturing plants, balancing local responsiveness with global standards and cross-divisional alignment.
Execution & Governance
Establish the operating rhythm to manage performance, risk, and improvement across the four MQE pillars for operations and regional supplier quality support.
Ensure timely reporting of status, risks, and deliverables, escalating issues early and enabling fact-based decisions.
Deploy best‑practice program management frameworks to drive cross-functional alignment, accountability, and on-time execution.
External Engagement
Serve as an escalation point for supplier investigations, excursions, audits, and customer-facing quality issues tied to supported raw materials and commodities, ensuring disciplined containment, communication, and closure.
Ensure high-quality external communication packages (technical reports, OCAPs, 8Ds, and presentations) that align to customer expectations and internal standards.
Lead supplier quality engagements for chemistry, membranes, and mechanical fabrication commodities, including corrective and preventive actions, audit readiness, process capability reviews, and sustained closure of systemic issues.
Quality Systems & Operational Excellence
Ensure compliance with global quality policies, raw material control plans, supplier quality expectations, and management of change requirements across APS and MS supported materials.
Maintain zero‑overdue CAR, OFIs, OCAPs, or CRs.
Monitor and improve key performance indicators (e.g., OOC%, QN/NCMR cycle time, SPC maturity, EQOS, change cycle time, and investigation timeliness) and drive corrective action when performance drifts.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering, or related field
10+ years industry experience; 3+ years people leadership required.
Fluency in Japanese and English required; additional fluency in Mandarin or another regional language is a plus. Ability to communicate effectively across regional and global teams is essential.
Experience managing employees and collaborating across global, cross-functional teams preferred.
Strong understanding of SPC, FMEA, supplier quality systems, materials characterization, chemistry, membrane technologies, and mechanical fabrication processes. Six Sigma Green Belt desired.
Proficiency with Minitab, JMP, SAS, SAP, Power BI, Microsoft Office.
Travel: Up to 20%, including travel between Japan manufacturing sites, suppliers, and regional/global meetings as needed.
