Key Responsibilities
Select and Qualify Components:
-Manages a team of engineers responsible for
evaluating and qualifying supplier components at varying degrees of complexity
and integration level, ensuring alignment with technical specifications,
reliability standards, and lifecycle requirements.
-Provides technical and strategic direction on
complex component reliability assessments, leveraging supplier data, industry
standards, and accelerated life testing methodologies to drive informed
decision-making.
-Partners with Supplier Quality, Supply Chain Security,
and Test Engineering teams to establish robust qualification criteria, ensuring
components meet product performance, safety, and manufacturability standards.
-Drives supplier-driven quality and process
improvement initiatives, reviewing manufacturing processes, material
traceability, and process controls to enhance overall component consistency and
reliability.
Supplier Engagement:
-Manages supplier relationships, ensuring
alignment on technical specifications, quality expectations, and production commitments
to support business objectives.
-Manages supplier audit processes, assessing
production capabilities, process controls, and adherence to quality and
security management systems, driving improvements where needed.
-Leads supplier development initiatives,
collaborating with design and procurement teams to enhance supplier
capabilities and ensure seamless integration of components into product
development.
-Executes strategies to improve supplier
efficiency, yield, and overall product quality through continuous collaboration
and performance monitoring.
New Product Introduction:
-Ensures supplier readiness for New Product
Introduction (NPI), monitoring team activities that support components and
supplier processes are validated and production-ready before full-scale launch.
-Leads supplier coordination efforts, aligning
production plans with project timelines, demand forecasts, and
manufacturability requirements.
-Monitors pilot production validation efforts,
ensuring that supplier manufacturing processes meet established quality, cost,
and performance expectations.
Failure Analysis:
-Oversees the resolution of supplier-related
quality excursions and failures, ensuring timely and effective
corrective/preventive actions (RCA, CAPA).
-Leads failure analysis investigations on supplier
components, utilizing advanced analytical techniques (e.g., X-ray, scanning
electron microscopy [SEM], electrical testing) to determine failure modes and
prevent recurrence.
-Defines and monitors key supplier quality
metrics, including yield, defect rates, and overall performance, implementing
data-driven continuous improvement initiatives.
-Develops and enforces robust processes for
managing non-conforming components, including quarantine, rework, and
disposition strategies.
Cross-Functional Collaboration:
-Serves as the primary interface between internal
stakeholders, facilitating alignment with Design, Operations, Quality, and
Procurement teams.
-Drives cross-functional initiatives to enhance
product quality, reduce costs, and improve supply chain performance, ensuring
business objectives are met.
-Provides technical leadership on design changes,
process optimizations, and supplier transitions, mitigating risk and ensuring
minimal impact on production and quality.
-Develops and mentors a high-performing
engineering team, fostering technical expertise, strategic thinking, and
leadership capabilities to support long-term business success.

Core Responsibilities
Planning & Execution:
-Manages multiple medium- to large-scale projects
or initiatives across teams, ensuring timelines, deliverables, and budgets when
applicable are monitored and met. Provides direction to teams on project work,
setting priorities, and aligning with business needs. Guides teams on adjusting
plans to accommodate resource or timeline changes.
Collaboration & Partnership:
-Drives cross-functional partnerships to align on
expectations and shared objectives across multiple teams. Coaches team members
to develop strategic relationships with business leaders, stakeholders, and
external partners to foster collaboration and long-term success. Promotes
inclusivity by actively seeking and listening to diverse perspectives, ensuring
others feel heard and respected.
Problem Solving:
-Provides direction to multiple teams on
addressing complex operational and/or technical issues as well as providing
guidance on analyzing complex data and/or information to identify solutions.
Reviews and provides insights into unresolved or critical issues, helping the
team to identify potential solutions.
Continuous Learning:
-Models engaging in continuous learning to deepen
expertise and stay ahead of industry trends, integrating best practices into
strategic planning. Leverages feedback to drive personal and team skill
improvements. Identifies skill gaps across teams, and empowers team members to
pursue learning and knowledge sharing opportunities that build their expertise
in new areas and coaches them to apply learnings to advance the organization.
Continuous Improvement:
-Drives team to collaborate on, develop, and
implement ideas to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes,
protocols, and workflows within and across teams, providing oversight. Guides
team to adopt new ideas for alternative approaches and methods and encourages
feedback for continued improvement.
Performance and Development:
-Drives performance across teams by providing
feedback and coaching in alignment with performance management processes,
guidelines, and expectations. Discusses development goals with team members,
shares opportunities to facilitate career development, and ensures individual
goals are aligned with broader organizational goals. Develops and manages
talent acquisition pipeline by leading candidate interviews, monitoring
promotion eligibility, and/or orchestrating talent resources.