Director, Quality Assurance

• Establishes input material standards through engagement with manufacturing and engineering personnel; conferring, coaching and negotiating with suppliers; devising testing methods and procedures to ensure conformance.
• Establishes In-process Product and Process monitoring standards by understanding Product, Process & Customer needs; devising testing methods and procedures; enforcing compliance.
• Establishes standards for the disposition of finished product by devising evaluation tests, methods and procedures.
• Establishes rework standards, where applicable by devising inspection and physical testing methods and procedures.
• Establishes Product Quality documentation system by drafting and updating Quality Assurance procedures.
• Maintains Product Quality by enforcing Quality Assurance policies and procedures as well as applicable regulatory requirements.
• Collaborate with members of Management to develop and deploy New Product Introduction, Engineering Design, Manufacturing and Training methods targeting Excursion-free Ramp.
• Collates Product and Process Quality Reports for analyzing and summarizing the information and tracking trends to trigger timely Corrective/Preventive/improvement initiatives thereby preventing Excursions.
• Completes Quality Assurance Operational requirements by scheduling and assigning employees; following up on work results.
• Maintains Quality Assurance Organization structure by Recruiting, Selecting, Orienting and Training employees.
• Motivates and Retains Quality Assurance Staff by Coaching, Counseling, and Disciplining employees, where needed; Planning, Monitoring and Appraising outcome from the business Objectives’ perspective as strategized by the Executive Management of the company.
• Maintains Professional and Technical Knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies.
• Achieves financial objectives by preparing the Quality Assurance budget; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions to address gaps, if any, in a timely manner.
• Works together with the Team with Passion to achieve targeted Objectives.
• Ensures Integrity and be the Voice of the Plant and Voice of the Customers protecting interests of both parties

Required Experience and Qualifications (Required knowledge, skills and experience---however acquired):

• Degree in Electrical/Electronics/Mechanical/Chemical Engineering or Material Physics
• More than 10 years experience in Packaging, Test, Wafer Sort, Wafer Bumping and associated Backend Operations out of which at least 5 years in managerial position.
• Preferably experienced in a multi-cultural environment with exposure to Global customer-base.
• Knowledge of Quality tools such as 8D systematic problem solving methodology, FMEA, statistical tools such as JMP is desirable.
• Good understanding of ISO9000, TS16949, ISO14001 and OHSAS18001 besides Regulatory requirements such as ROHS, REACH, Conflict Free sourcing initiatives etc.