Quality Assurance
As the Director of Quality Assurance, you will be in a highly visibility position as the face of quality for ElevATE’s customers, suppliers, and internal design and development teams. Reporting to the Vice President of Worldwide Operations, this position will require a highly motivated and flexible individual contributor, as we require it to drive not only the administrative quality activities, but to also ensure product development milestones are well coordinated through a shared services structure with Engineering teams.
Sourcing for a mid-career candidate that is looking for an opportunity to take the next step in their career, to own and build upon our Quality Assurance foundation, to have a positive corporate level impact on culture, process, outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Conduct themselves as the face of Quality for the company; addressing all quality related issues that arise from the customer base, or internal stakeholders. These include customer quality inquiries, RMA’s, manufacturing issues, EOL/PCN letters, and technical collaboration into the design and product teams
- Manage and drive ElevATE’s ISO9001:2015 infrastructure and processes across the enterprise, maintaining certification, leveraging as a tool for management accountability, continuous improvement, and corporate maturation by driving the ISO/Quality mindset across the organization
- Own and approve the product qualification plans by partnering with engineering and product teams
- Deep understanding of Product Engineering, Test Engineering, Test Program and Test Floor Management
- Accountable to execute yield enhancement and management projects across a portfolio of complicated analog semiconductors, to enhance corporate profitability and supply availability in a dynamic market
- Drive Operational related quality initiatives with Engineering such as dual source qualifications, site transfers (foundry, assembly, test), design related issues, resolve yield issues, and identify and drive yield enhancements
- Responsible for Key Performance Indicators: Foundry PCM analysis, RMA elements, product qualifications, manufacturing yield, etc.
- Maintain Conflict Mineral, ROHS, and other required quality statutory related documentation
- Completely own tactical RMA processing and management, with internal resource support
- Own Document Control function and platform, generating new product documents with Engineering, and coordinating corporate level document retention
Required Skills
- BS in Electrical Engineering in combination with a minimum of 8+ years of progressive professional experience
- Willingness to work in a role driving both business and technical activities in a shared services environment
- Work experience as a Quality Engineer, Product Engineer, or Foundry Engineer
- Knowledge of digital and analog semiconductor circuits, with data analysis of bench and/or ATE data
- Experience in silicon characterization and system & circuit level troubleshooting
- Established and proven analytical problem-solving skills and the ability to resolve complex technical problems
- Full understanding of the semiconductor product development process, and the industry product life cycle.
- International experience building trusted, technical relationships with external stakeholders
- Ability to work to schedule and make the required engineering tradeoffs to meet commitments
- Ability to work a variable schedule to support stakeholder calls in Europe, the US, and Asia time zones
- Must operate with a continuous improvement mindset, and deliver documented process structure to mature the department, and serve as audit references.
Preferences
- Semiconductor and PCB experience requested, preferably in fabless semiconductor or electronics space
- Exposure to high volume and small batch processing is helpful
- Experience with benchtop or ATE testing is a big plus
- Understand schematics and debug pc boards
- Strong math and statistical skills are a plus
- Understanding of ESD and Latch up in electrical components
- Strong problem-solving ability
Competencies
- Drive For Results
- Continuous Improvement
- Managing Through Systems
- Perseverance
- Process management
- Time management
- Interpersonal Savvy
- Learning On The Fly
- Work/Life Balance
Perks
- Flexible hybrid working locations
- Flexible work schedule
- 100% employer paid benefits
- Generous vacation policy
- Employee Assistance Program
- Free snacks & caffeine
