Manufacturing Quality Manager

The Quality Manager is responsible for leading quality assurance and quality control activities within a precision manufacturing facility producing MEMS, sensors, semiconductor-related components, or similar advanced hardware products. This position will oversee the facility’s quality management system, manufacturing quality processes, customer quality requirements, supplier quality, and continuous improvement initiatives.

The ideal candidate has direct experience supporting MEMS manufacturing and a strong understanding of the quality requirements associated with sensors, semiconductor devices, microelectronics, or other highly engineered hardware products. This is a hands‑on leadership role requiring close collaboration with manufacturing, process engineering, product development, supply chain, customers, and suppliers.

• Lead quality assurance and quality control activities across the manufacturing facility.
• Maintain and continuously improve the facility’s quality management system, procedures, work instructions, and documentation.
• Establish and monitor quality standards for MEMS, sensors, semiconductor components, microelectronics, or comparable precision hardware products.
• Manage incoming, in-process, and final inspection activities to ensure products meet internal, customer, and regulatory requirements.
• Partner with manufacturing and engineering teams to identify process risks, improve product quality, increase yield, and reduce scrap, rework, and production defects.
• Lead investigations into nonconforming materials, manufacturing defects, customer complaints, and field failures.
• Facilitate structured root‑cause analysis and corrective action using tools such as 8D, 5 Whys, fishbone analysis, and fault‑tree analysis.
• Manage corrective and preventive action programs and ensure actions are completed effectively and on schedule.
• Lead the development and maintenance of control plans, process flow diagrams, inspection plans, PFMEAs, and quality documentation.
• Support new product introduction and manufacturing transfer activities by establishing quality requirements and ensuring production‑readiness standards are met.
• Participate in design reviews, process qualification, validation, and reliability‑testing activities.
• Monitor key quality metrics, including yield, scrap, rework, defect rates, customer returns, supplier performance, and corrective‑action effectiveness.
• Prepare and present quality performance reports, trends, risks, and improvement plans to leadership.
• Manage customer quality requirements, audits, complaints, corrective‑action requests, and ongoing communication.
• Lead internal, customer, supplier, and certification audits and ensure audit findings are resolved promptly.
• Develop and manage supplier quality expectations, qualification processes, performance reviews, and corrective actions.
• Work with suppliers to resolve component, material, packaging, and outsourced‑process quality concerns.
• Promote a culture of quality, accountability, problem‑solving, and continuous improvement throughout the organization.
• Train and mentor quality personnel and manufacturing employees on quality standards, inspection practices, documentation, and problem‑solving methodologies.
• Ensure appropriate calibration, measurement‑system control, traceability, and record‑retention practices are maintained.
• Support compliance with applicable ISO standards, customer‑specific requirements, and industry quality systems.

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, Materials Science, or a related technical discipline.
• At least 7 years of quality engineering or quality management experience within a manufacturing environment.
• Previous experience supporting MEMS manufacturing is required.
• Experience with sensor manufacturing, semiconductor devices, microelectronics, electronic components, or similar precision‑hardware products is strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated experience leading manufacturing quality programs and quality‑management systems.
• Strong knowledge of root‑cause analysis, corrective and preventive actions, nonconformance management, and continuous improvement.
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