Supplier Performance and Quality Improvement
Serve as the Seremban site Supplier Quality lead for assigned critical direct materials and supplier-quality improvement initiatives supporting released products.
Monitor supplier quality performance, identify adverse trends and systemic risks, and lead improvement plans for poor-performing or high-risk suppliers.
Lead rapid containment, structured root-cause analysis, corrective and preventive action, effectiveness verification, and recurrence prevention for supplier-related quality issues.
Track, manage, and report assigned quality initiatives, supplier recovery plans, qualification status, risks, and executive-level escalations.
Critical Direct Materials and Technical Leadership
Provide technical leadership for critical direct materials such as AMB/DCB, ceramic, substrate, leadframe, tape-and-reel materials, mold compound, wire, solder paste, sintering materials, and related power-semiconductor materials.
Evaluate supplier product and process capability, material characteristics, metrology, reliability performance, process robustness, and change-control effectiveness.
Develop and maintain commodity-specific supplier assessment, qualification, control, and prevention requirements from product development through mass production.
Audits, Qualification, and Quality Systems
Plan and conduct supplier system, process, product, qualification, and special-process audits, particularly for new suppliers, new technologies, transfers, and significant supplier changes.
Lead supplier qualification audits and ensure timely closure and effectiveness verification of corrective and preventive actions.
Maintain accurate supplier-quality records, audit evidence, qualification documentation, and risk assessments in accordance with onsemi procedures and applicable automotive-quality requirements.
Global Collaboration and Standardization
Collaborate with SQE, SDE, IQA, manufacturing sites, and subject-matter experts across the global organization to solve technical issues and build quality synergy.
Drive standardization across worldwide factories for material verification, supplier assessment, qualification, audit methods, change control, and supplier performance management.
Partner with Global Commodity Managers to support cost and supply-chain objectives while maintaining appropriate quality, reliability, and risk controls.
Requirements
Qualifications and Experience
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Materials Science, Materials Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
+8 years of relevant experience in semiconductor engineering, manufacturing, quality, supplier quality, supplier development, or a closely related function. Experience in power semiconductor products or materials is strongly preferred.
Demonstrated early-career experience in manufacturing process engineering, product engineering, product design, materials engineering, or equipment/process development, followed by substantial experience in Quality or Supplier Quality. Technical depth is essential; prior people-management experience is advantageous but not required.
Demonstrated expertise in at least one critical material, supplier process, or technology area listed below.
AMB/DCB and ceramic processing, including ceramic microstructure, metallization, interface design, bonding, isolation, warpage, porosity, and reliability considerations.
Material joining and welding technologies.
Electroless and electrolytic plating processes, surface preparation, adhesion, thickness control, and defect mechanisms.
Soldering and sintering materials and processes, including material selection, process windows, joint integrity, and reliability.
Material characterization, metrology, laboratory testing, and reliability evaluation.
Working knowledge of APQP, PPAP, DFMEA, PFMEA, Control Plan, MSA, SPC, DFM/DFQ, process certification, and process-robustness principles.
Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings, material specifications, schematics, test methods, and supplier technical documentation.
Strong structured problem-solving and data-analysis capability. Six Sigma Black Belt certification or equivalent mastery of Six Sigma methods is preferred.
Strong project-management, prioritization, negotiation, stakeholder-management, communication, and executive-articulation skills. IPMA, PMP, or equivalent certification is advantageous.
IATF 16949, VDA 6.3, and certified Lead Auditor qualifications are preferred but not required.
Fluent written and spoken English for collaboration with global stakeholders and international suppliers.
High initiative, sound technical judgment, and the ability to work independently in a cross-functional and global environment.
Ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally, including on short notice when business conditions require.
onsemi (Nasdaq: ON) is driving disruptive innovations to help build a better future. With a continued focus on the automotive and industrial end-markets, onsemi is accelerating change and driving disruptive innovation towards a sustainable ecosystem in high-growth megatrends such as vehicle electrification, advanced safety, alternative energy, and factory automation. With a highly differentiated and innovative product portfolio, onsemi creates intelligent power and sensing technologies that solve the world’s most complex challenges and leads the way in creating a safer, cleaner, and smarter world. Today, the industrial and automotive end-markets are responsible for two-thirds of global greenhouse gas emissions, providing an immense opportunity for onsemi to do its part in achieving a net-zero economy with its intelligent power and sensing technologies. Climate change presents not only a risk to the environment, but also opportunities for innovative business solutions, and onsemi is committed to applying its research and design expertise and adapting its own operations to achieve net-zero emissions by 2040.
