Recruit, develop, and manage quality inspectors while building future technician and quality engineering capabilities
Establish quality procedures, metrics, escalation processes, reporting systems, and a culture of quality ownership and continuous improvement.
Establish incoming inspection processes, acceptance criteria, and material-control procedures for critical materials including III-V substrates, epitaxial source materials, specialty gases, precious metals, process chemicals, and optical and test consumables
Verify material certifications; establish supplier qualification, monitoring, corrective-action, and containment processes
Ensure traceability and disposition tracking.
Develop and implement in-process quality control systems, containment and escalation processes for quality excursions, and process controls across manufacturing operations
Monitor process performance and quality trends
Drive reduction of defects, scrap, rework, and quality escapes; and ensure consistent quality practices across both fabs.
Implement and maintain manufacturing quality systems, including Statistical Process Control (SPC), CAPA, Non-Conforming Material Report (NCMR) processes, FMEA, and process control plans
Provide independent quality review and approval of Engineering Change Notices (ECNs), process changes, and manufacturing transfers
Establish and maintain ESD control programs and quality documentation and records.
Lead investigations of manufacturing quality excursions and process escapes in partnership with Process Engineering and Product Engineering
Monitor process capability (Cp/Cpk)
Provide quality leadership for measurement-system capability and MSA activities
Support tool and process qualification and requalification
Use quality data to improve process stability, defect reduction, and yield.
Maintain audit readiness across both fabrication facilities
Support internal, customer, and ISO audits
Support contamination-control initiatives and cleanroom environmental monitoring
Ensure quality documentation meets compliance requirements
Partner with the Sr. Manager, Photonics Quality Engineering on corporate quality initiatives and enterprise quality alignment.
Other relevant tasks, as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications (Education & Experience)
Education: Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Physics, Materials Science, Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or related technical discipline
Experience: 7+ years of manufacturing quality experience within wafer fabrication, photonics, compound semiconductor, or related advanced manufacturing environments
Leadership: 3+ years of people leadership experience
Strong knowledge of SPC, CAPA, NCMR, FMEA, Control Plans, MSA, and manufacturing quality systems
Experience leading root-cause investigations and corrective-action programs
Experience supporting semiconductor wafer fabrication or advanced manufacturing operations
Strong communication, leadership, and organizational skills
Experience working effectively across Operations and Engineering functions
Desired Qualifications
Experience in wafer-fab quality within silicon semiconductor, compound semiconductor, photonics, III-V semiconductor, optoelectronics, or optical communications manufacturing environments
Experience supporting epitaxial growth operations
Experience building or scaling manufacturing quality organizations within multi-site manufacturing environments
Experience with supplier-quality programs and semiconductor MES systems
Comfortable operating in evolving, high-mix manufacturing environments with limited historical data
Desire to learn InP epitaxial growth, wafer fabrication, and photonics manufacturing technologies
The intent of this job description is to describe the major duties and responsibilities performed by incumbents of this job. Incumbents may be required to perform job-related tasks other than those specifically included in this description.
All duties and responsibilities are essential job functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities.
We are proud to be an EEO employer M/F/D/V. We maintain a drug-free workplace.
A reasonable estimate of the pay range for this position is $130,000 - $180,000. There are several factors taken into consideration in determining base salary, including but not limited to: job-related qualifications, skills, education and experience, as well as job location and the value of other elements of an employee’s total compensation package.
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