Job Description

A Day in Your Life at MKS:
As a Senior Quality Engineering Manager at MKS Korea, you will partner with Power Solutions Asia, and Global Service personnel to drive a culture of quality across Design & Development, Manufacturing, and Global Service Operations. This role ensures site-wide adherence to regulatory requirements, quality standards, and customer expectations while leading strategic quality initiatives that improve product performance, compliance, and operational excellence.

The Senior Quality Manager serves as the primary quality interface to internal and external stakeholders, including executive leadership, regulatory agencies, customers, and suppliers. In this role, you will report to a Director of Quality Engineering.

You Will Make an Impact by bringing the applying the following skills and abilities:

Quality Leadership & Strategy

• Lead the site’s overall quality strategy to ensure compliance with corporate standards, industry regulations, and customer requirements.
• Act as the primary advisor to site leadership on quality risks, trends, and improvement opportunities.
• Build and sustain a culture of continuous improvement, accountability, and proactive quality ownership across all functions.

Design & Development Quality

• Participate in the product development process of semiconductor capital equipment to ensure quality requirements are understood and met.
• Ensure product requirements, design inputs/outputs, and technical documentation meet regulatory and customer requirements.
• Support cross-functional design reviews, failure analysis, and product transfer readiness to high volume manufacturing centers.

Manufacturing Quality

• Provide leadership for incoming, in-process, and final quality control operations.
• Ensure ISO9001 compliant quality systems are in place to support production.
• Champion reduction of nonconformances, scrap/rework, and process variability through strong application of problem‑solving and statistical tools.
• Drive process capability improvements and ensure PFMEAs and control plans are in use and maintained.

Service & Field Quality

• Oversee the service quality program, ensuring timely investigation and resolution of field failures and customer complaints.
• Lead Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and Corrective and Preventive Action (CAPA) related to field issues.
• Partner with service teams to improve product quality, service documentation, and customer satisfaction.

Quality Systems & Compliance

• Ensure ongoing compliance with regulatory bodies (e.g., FDA, ISO, AS, customer audits).
• Maintain and continually improve the site QMS, leading internal audits, management reviews, document control, and training.
• Drive timely closure of CAPAs, nonconformance investigations, and audit findings.

People Leadership

• Manage, coach, and develop a team of quality professionals across design assurance, supplier quality, manufacturing quality, and service quality.
• Ensure workforce capability through training, mentoring, and talent development.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner closely with Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Service, and Program Management to ensure quality is integrated at every stage of the product lifecycle.
• Participate in site leadership forums to influence strategy and decision-making.

• Travel Requirements: Local travel to customer and supplier sites may be required as needed and expected (<10% local travel). International travel as needed but not expected as part of normal duties.

Skills You Bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or other technical discipline.in a related field.
• 10-15 years of experience in Quality Engineering or Quality Management within a regulated industry (e.g., medical devices, aerospace, automotive, industrial equipment, electronics).
• Demonstrated experience leading quality engineers and inspectors across design, manufacturing, and service. Proven leadership and team building and development.
• Direct experience working with customers, establishing rapport, and representing the organization on quality related topics. Experience working with large OEM customers a plus.
• Strong knowledge of ISO 9001 Quality Management Systems.
• Proficiency in Root Cause Analysis, CAPA, risk management, statistical techniques, and continuous improvement methodologies (e.g., Six Sigma, Lean).
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to regularly interact with local peers and management as well as international coworkers. The candidate must have the ability to communicate effectively in both native language and English.

Preferred Skills:

• Master’s degree or MBA.
• Certifications such as ASQ CQE, CQM/OE, CQA, Six Sigma Black Belt, ISO9001 Lead Auditor.
• Experience with global manufacturing and service sites and multi-disciplinary engineering teams.
• Experience in the semiconductor capital equipment industry a plus.

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