Quality Director

Quality Director

To develop TDK-Lambda Americas initiatives to create a Total Quality Culture and to champion the design and achievement of its goals with respect to quality of products and services across multiple product lines, manufacturing facilities, product design locations and a global supply chain.

Ensure development, implementation and continuous improvement of Quality Management System (QMS), which comply with the World Class Regulations and Certifications such as ISO, ANSI and IEC that are applicable, in the U.S. as well as elsewhere around the world.

Provide leadership and direction to the Quality Assurance and Quality Control staff in all TLA locations, and will be responsible for the selection, motivation and oversight of that staff for the achievement of the department's goals.

Leverage broad experience in electronics—including understanding of electronic product design, manufacturing, reliability and regulatory compliance—to support strategic decision‑making, strengthen quality performance and enhance overall product integrity.

Oversee and participate in the Design Review Process to ensure that new products and modifications to existing products meet the customer, company and regulatory requirements and provide design margins to manufacture the products with ease and within cost and quality goals.

In conjunction with the Supply Chain Management function, lead the Supplier Quality Management function to ensure full and proactive Supplier Quality Assurance (SQA) performance by key suppliers.

Creates QMS procedures and associated documents that supports the organization in achieving Quality Objectives of the company during product manufacturing while meeting:

Customers' quality specifications and requirements

Delivering the products on-time

Meeting the cost goals

Meeting company, Industry and Regulatory standards

Responsible for meeting the requirements for the various certifications. This entails:

Periodic Management Review of QMS for achieving a close loop continuous improvement

Corrective and preventive measures for product and process defects and nonconformities

Internal audits against SOPs to ensure adherence to QMS

Inspection and testing of products and periodic verification that these SOPs are effective in producing consistent product quality

Data collection and report generation to provide failure rate, yields, cycle time and other metrics for continuous improvement

Management of calibration system for test equipment, instruments, gauges and tools

Segregation of nonconforming products, parts and material and appropriate disposition

Monitor field performance of various products with specific aim of providing feedback to internal functional groups to make design and manufacturing improvements so that field performance goals are consistently met or exceeded.

Act as a liaison person concerning the subject of Quality with all internal functional heads and acts as focal point for outside contacts such customers, suppliers, industry standard Institutes, Government Agencies, Certification Agencies etc., especially for customer and certification audits. This person also acts as a focal point while dealing with other TDK sister companies including TDK Japan (HQ) in regards to quality and technical matters related to quality.

Responsible for all Strategic Quality Decisions related to design, manufacturing, supplier, customer and industry and regulatory requirements

Final authority related to quality decision making for accept/reject for internal and supplier related issues, stop and start of production line for quality issues, receiving inspection issues, piece part issues when interpretation of criteria is required.

Final authority concerning interpreting internal documents such as drawings, work instructions, checklists, test procedures, Bill of Material conflicts, specification and tolerance questions etc.

Responsible for interpreting Industry and Workmanship standards for manufacturing and suppliers

Enforcing the requirements of these internal documents and external and internal standards

Enforcing all third party certification requirements internally and at suppliers' operations

More than ten years of…