Principal Incoming Material Quality & Reliability Engineer

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As a Principal Incoming Material Quality Engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring all materials used for product manufacturing comply with quality requirements, and building strong relationships with suppliers to improve their quality capabilities. An understanding of fab processes and the related materials and chemicals is essential to ensure internal user requirements match supplier deliveries. Using a process approach you will ensure the effective implementation of the incoming material process to gate material quality, assure effective internal material management, and determine root causes to abnormality with effective actions to prevent recurrence.

The ability to continually improve quality and data systems is essential to drive towards the zero-defect expectation of our automotive and medical customers. Continued integration with our TSMC parent company necessitates creative solutions to ensure we meet the corporate best practices while accommodating local risks and resources.

While this position is scheduled to work core business hours, Monday-Friday, there may be times when additional hours are necessary.

• Implement the system to manage incoming materials including daily material gating, OCAP, documentation, coordination with other parties.
• Communicate with vendors to ensure quality requirements are met. Audit and coach them to improve their quality systems.
• Collaborate with internal departments to identify requirements, assess risks, and build systems.
• Act as a subject matter expert for materials and chemistry, performing research for new materials and problem analysis.
• Familiarity with data systems to the extent of defining requirements for IT, and the ability to validate systems meet requirements. Knowledge of AI, SQL, VBA, and Oracle, or similar, is a plus.
• Work as part of the larger TSMC company complying to corporate standards while adapting to local risks and resources. Drive for continuous improvement to improve effectiveness and efficiency. Proactively identify, prioritize and be responsible for solutions.
• Document and refine procedures to ensure their effective implementation, including error proofing. Ensure records are maintained and identify and implement validating self-audit practices.

• All applicants must possess legal authorization to work for any employer in the United States, and the employer cannot provide sponsorship or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.
• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Materials Science, Chemistry, or a related physical science discipline.
• 8
  -12 years experience with IC manufacturing a plus.
• Communicate with suppliers for material and chemical quality management.
• Follow a process approach to ensure direct and indirect production materials and chemicals meet requirements before release to production.
• Support business continuity activities to identify and prioritize risks, identify alternative sources and work with owners to qualify.
• Follow problem solving processes to identify root causes and applicable actions for non-conformances from both internal and external sources.
• Perform supplier audits to ISO
  9001 and, as applicable, IATF
  16949. Knowledgeable on ISO
  14001 and QC080000 a plus.
• Application of quality concepts and tools including a process approach, risk management including FMEA, control plan, MSA, calibration, SPC, OCAP, 8D/DMAIC, DOE, 3-leg/5-why.
• Familiarity…