Global Quality Assurance Director; Optoelectronics

Position: Global Quality Assurance Director (Optoelectronics) - United States
Location: Aurora

Location(s):
Fremont, California | Lisle, Illinois Company:
Molex Career Field:
Quality Job Number: 195135

Apply:  Job Molex is seeking a Senior Quality Assurance Director to lead quality strategy and execution for our Optoelectronics Products organization within the Datacom and Specialty Solutions division. This highly visible global role will strengthen customer-focused quality, preventive action, regulatory compliance, product reliability, and continuous improvement across a complex global design and high-volume manufacturing network.

The successful candidate will partner with engineering, operations, supply chain, commercial teams, customers, and manufacturing locations to build a culture of quality ownership and consistently improve the customer experience. This role supports Molex operations in Guadalajara and Zhuhai, the Fremont, California Design Center, and contract manufacturing activities across Asia.

This role is not open to Visa sponsorship.

Our Team The Quality and Continuous Improvement team supports global Optoelectronics design and manufacturing operations. The team works across functions and regions to improve quality systems, reduce defects and repeat issues, strengthen new product quality planning, and resolve customer concerns with speed and rigor.

What You Will Do Lead the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of an integrated quality strategy aligned with corporate requirements, customer expectations, and the goal of zero defects.

Partner with regional plant and design center leadership to establish preventive quality practices, strengthen failure avoidance, and improve product and process performance.

Develop an integrated customer-response framework with customer-facing technical program management and applications teams and represent the organization in customer quality matters and visits.

Lead and maintain quality management systems that meet applicable standards, regulatory requirements, and Molex corporate expectations, including support for ISO 9001 compliance and Molex Quality System audits.

Sponsor Lean Six Sigma initiatives and apply Advanced Quality Planning, Statistical Process Control, Failure Mode and Effects Analysis, Quality Function Deployment, Team Oriented Problem Solving, Gage R&R, and process capability methods to improve quality performance.

Build strong relationships with customer engineering leaders and teams across Molex; influence engineering, operations, and supply chain partners to strengthen customer-driven quality ownership.

Ensure manufacturing quality infrastructure, including clean rooms and white rooms, is maintained to applicable industry and customer standards.

Advise divisional quality and senior business leadership on quality policy, risk, performance, customer concerns, and improvement priorities.

Support design and development teams with quality planning for new programs, including project risk identification, reliability, qualification, and launch readiness.

Develop organizational capability through talent assessment, succession and development planning, and continued advancement of optical technology and quality assurance expertise.

Establish operating rhythms and corrective and preventive action reviews that deliver timely containment, root-cause resolution, and sustained corrective action.

Use quality data and emerging analytical methods, including machine-learning applications where appropriate, to identify patterns and reduce customer escapes.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
Bachelor’s degree in engineering, quality, applied science, or related technical field.

Progressive quality leadership experience in a complex product design and high-volume manufacturing environment involving optical, photonic, electronic,…