Quality Manager - Reliability Focus

Position:
Quality Manager - Reliability Focus?– HSIO Over Pass Products

Location:

Valley Green, PA

Amphenol Communications Solutions (ACS), a division of Amphenol Corporation, is a world leader in interconnect solutions for Communications, Mobile, RF, Optics, and Commercial electronics markets. Amphenol Corporation is one of the world's largest designers and manufacturers of electrical, electronic and fiber optic connectors and interconnect systems, antennas, sensors and sensor-based products and coaxial and high-speed specialty cable. ACS has an expansive global presence in research and development, manufacturing, and sales.

We design and manufacture a wide range of innovative connectors as well as cable assemblies for diverse applications including server, storage, data center, mobile, RF, networking, industrial, business equipment, and automotive.

Amphenol's High Speed IO Connectors and Over Pass Solutions Business Unit is a market leader in high-speed, high-bandwidth interconnect solutions used in servers, storage, networking equipment, and data center infrastructure. Our products enable reliable, low-loss data transmission in some of the world's most advanced IT and Datacom platforms, helping power the technology behind leading Tier 1 OEMs. With global design, sales, and manufacturing teams, we are growing quickly and continuing to invest in our people and products.

This role is a chance to make a real impact as part of a collaborative, fast-moving team within Amphenol's decentralized culture, where ideas are heard, initiative is encouraged, and teams are empowered to make decisions with clear accountability.

We are seeking a Quality Manager - Reliability Focus to lead reliability strategy, testing execution, and continuous improvement initiatives for HSIO Over Pass products. This role is responsible for managing reliability engineering resources supporting global manufacturing plants, strengthening inspection methodologies, and ensuring products consistently meet customer, industry, and internal quality standards throughout their lifecycle.

This position is based in Valley Green, PA, with collaboration across domestic and international manufacturing sites.

• Own the ongoing reliability testing program for HSIO Over Pass products, including released configurations and production variants.
• Develop and maintain reliability monitoring plans to ensure long-term product integrity in both manufacturing and customer applications.
• Define test frequency, sampling requirements, and qualification/monitoring standards aligned with customer requirements and internal quality systems.
• Ensure consistent execution of reliability testing and inspection methodologies across global manufacturing locations.

• Lead, mentor, and develop reliability engineers supporting HSIO Over Pass manufacturing sites.
• Partner closely with Manufacturing Engineering, Operations, and Quality teams to proactively identify and mitigate reliability and overall quality related risks.
• Provide technical leadership for investigations related to yield excursions, material or process changes, supplier changes, and field return trends.
• Drive standardization of reliability validation processes and inspection practices across all manufacturing locations.

• Lead continuous improvement initiatives to enhance quality inspection methodologies, defect detection effectiveness, and reliability test robustness.
• Evaluate and improve in-process and final inspection strategies to reduce escapes and strengthen prevention.
• Apply structured problem-solving tools (DMAIC, 8D, statistical analysis) to drive sustainable process and reliability improvements.
• Strengthen control plans, inspection criteria, sampling strategies, and measurement system effectiveness (MSA).
• Promote data-driven decision-making to improve reliability confidence while optimizing cycle time and cost of quality.
• Champion a forward-looking mindset that advances state-of-the-art inspection systems and modern quality methodologies, positioning HSIO Over Pass products…