Principal/Engineer - Supplier Quality Management Advanced Electronics & Semiconductor Solutions (AESS)

Supplier Quality Management

• Own the quality interface with assigned wafer foundries and act as the primary contact for supplier quality topics across development, qualification, ramp-up, and series production.
• Define, monitor, and review supplier quality KPIs, scorecards, process capability, yield performance, reliability performance, audit findings, and improvement actions.
• Conduct regular supplier quality and business reviews to align expectations, identify risks, and drive sustainable corrective and preventive actions.
• Assess and manage supplier risks relating to process stability, capacity, quality systems, sub-tier control, and manufacturing changes.

Compliance & Audits

• Plan and conduct supplier system, process, and technology audits at wafer foundries, including follow-up and closure of findings.
• Evaluate compliance with IATF 16949, VDA 6.3, ISO 9001, automotive core tools, customer-specific requirements, and internal quality requirements, as applicable.
• Support supplier selection, qualification, approval, and periodic re-evaluation based on capability, performance, risk, and compliance.

Issue Resolution and Escalation

• Lead supplier problem-solving for wafer-fabrication quality issues, including process excursions, yield losses, reliability failures, specification violations, and systemic quality concerns.
• Ensure effective containment, root-cause analysis, corrective and preventive action, effectiveness verification, and lessons learned using structured methods such as 8D, 5-Why, fishbone, DOE, and statistical analysis.
• Drive timely escalation and transparent risk communication when quality, delivery, qualification, or customer commitments may be affected.

New Foundry/Process Introduction/Qualification

• Lead the quality assessment of new foundry technologies, process transfers, new manufacturing locations, major process changes, and supplier change notifications.
• Review and approve quality-relevant deliverables such as process flows, control plans, PFMEAs, qualification plans and reports, process capability evidence, reliability data, and production readiness documentation.
• Ensure changes are risk-assessed, validated, approved, documented, and implemented under controlled conditions before release to production.
• Coordinate closely with R&D, Technical Operations Management, Project Management, stakeholders to ensure clear ownership and timely decisions.

Continuous Improvement

• Drive supplier improvement toward zero defects through SPC, process capability improvement, defect prevention, robust control plans, advanced process monitoring, and reduction of variation.
• Maintain current audit records, supplier approvals, qualification evidence, change-control records, quality dashboards, risk registers, and action trackers.
• Provide concise management updates on supplier performance, quality-system status, major risks, audit results, qualification progress, and improvement effectiveness.
• Benchmark and share best practices across suppliers and internal teams to strengthen organizational and supplier quality maturity.

Quality Management System

• Develop, implement, maintain, and continuously improve the quality management system for AESS in alignment with applicable automotive, customer, corporate, and regulatory requirements.
• Define and maintain quality processes, procedures, templates, records, governance mechanisms, and management reporting relevant to supplier and product quality activities.
• Coordinate internal quality-system reviews, gap assessments, corrective actions, management review inputs, and readiness for internal, customer, certification, or corporate audits.
• Promote process ownership, document control, risk-based thinking, lessons learned, and consistent application of quality requirements across functions.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical, Electronics, Microelectronics, Materials, Chemical Engineering, Physics, or a related technical discipline.
• Certification (Six sigma black belt, IATF/VDA auditor) preferred.

Experience

• Minimum 7 years of experience in semiconductor supplier quality, foundry quality, wafer-fabrication process engineering, technology development, product quality, or quality management, preferably including at least 3 years in an automotive semiconductor environment.
• Practical experience working with wafer foundries and strong understanding of semiconductor manufacturing, process integration, process control, yield management, reliability qualification, and change management.
• Demonstrated experience with quality management systems, supplier audits, corrective-action management, and cross-functional quality governance.

Skills and Competencies:

• Solid knowledge of front-end wafer-fabrication processes such as lithography, etch, deposition, implantation, diffusion, CMP, metallization, process control, inline monitoring, and electrical wafer test.
• Working knowledge of IATF 16949, ISO 9001, VDA 6.3, APQP, PPAP, FMEA, MSA, SPC, control plans, AEC-Q100, and structured problem-solving methods.
• Ability to interpret process data, reliability results, statistical trends, audit evidence, specifications, and qualification documentation to form risk-based quality decisions.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills to work with suppliers and customers.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, cross-functional, and global environment.
• Willingness to travel to supplier sites globally.

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