Principal/Engineer - Supplier Quality Management Advanced Electronics & Semiconductor Solutions (AESS)

Supplier Quality Management

• Own the quality interface with assigned wafer foundries and act as the primary contact for supplier quality topics across development, qualification, ramp-up, and series production. • Define, monitor, and review supplier quality KPIs, scorecards, process capability, yield performance, reliability performance, audit findings, and improvement actions. • Conduct regular supplier quality and business reviews to align expectations, identify risks, and drive sustainable corrective and preventive actions. • Assess and manage supplier risks relating to process stability, capacity, quality systems, sub-tier control, and manufacturing changes.

Compliance & Audits

• Plan and conduct supplier system, process, and technology audits at wafer foundries, including follow-up and closure of findings. • Evaluate compliance with IATF 16949, VDA 6.3, ISO 9001, automotive core tools, customer-specific requirements, and internal quality requirements, as applicable. • Support supplier selection, qualification, approval, and periodic re-evaluation based on capability, performance, risk, and compliance.

Issue Resolution and Escalation

• Lead supplier problem-solving for wafer-fabrication quality issues, including process excursions, yield losses, reliability failures, specification violations, and systemic quality concerns. • Ensure effective containment, root-cause analysis, corrective and preventive action, effectiveness verification, and lessons learned using structured methods such as 8D, 5-Why, fishbone, DOE, and statistical analysis. • Drive timely escalation and transparent risk communication when quality, delivery, qualification, or customer commitments may be affected.

New Foundry/Process Introduction/Qualification

• Lead the quality assessment of new foundry technologies, process transfers, new manufacturing locations, major process changes, and supplier change notifications. • Review and approve quality-relevant deliverables such as process flows, control plans, PFMEAs, qualification plans and reports, process capability evidence, reliability data, and production readiness documentation. • Ensure changes are risk-assessed, validated, approved, documented, and implemented under controlled conditions before release to production. • Coordinate closely with R&D, Technical Operations Management, Project Management, stakeholders to ensure clear ownership and timely decisions.

Continuous Improvement

• Drive supplier improvement toward zero defects through SPC, process capability improvement, defect prevention, robust control plans, advanced process monitoring, and reduction of variation. • Maintain current audit records, supplier approvals, qualification evidence, change-control records, quality dashboards, risk registers, and action trackers. • Provide concise management updates on supplier performance, quality-system status, major risks, audit results, qualification progress, and improvement effectiveness. • Benchmark and share best practices across suppliers and internal teams to strengthen organizational and supplier quality maturity.