Senior Director, Supplier Quality Engineering
Full-time
Director/C-Level
3 months ago
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:Responsible for providing leadership, direction, and management of all mechanical & electrical supplier-enga.....
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Responsible for providing leadership, direction, and management of all mechanical & electrical supplier-engagement activities in the HDD Operations
Main Interfaces:
The main customer is Factory and Development Engineering to ensure suppliers are qualified by QSR and capable of supporting HVM production, excursion-free.
Key partners include:
- Global Commodity Management (Direct & Indirect)
- OCCQ – Product Quality, Factory Quality, Customer Quality
- SPMO, Mfg/Product Engineering & Analytical Services
- Dev Engineering including validation team (QA-PMs)
Primary Accountabilities:
1) Lead, manage and develop the SQE team:
- Recruit, train and develop the SQE subject matter expertise
- Review progress, customer feedback and monitor KPIs
- Establish tools/processes/systems for higher productivity
- Regular reviews on career and growth
2) Supplier-Component/Sub-Assembly Level:
- Timely qualification (QMP, AVL approval )to support new product ramp readiness
- Roadmap initiatives (Variability Reduction, FMEA+, ZDM) technology transitions at suppliers for continuous process capability and process robustness improvement
- Deep dive session reviewing supplier improvement & engagement progress, review action plans to meet KPI and stretch targets
- Engage supplier’s executives during Get Well plan
3) WD Cross-Functional Facilitation:
- Design for Manufacturability and ensure specs are complete
- Create Lessons Learned to feedback design rules
- Recommend and influence supplier selection list for new product
- Support alternate source qualification in times of supply chain disruption (due to covid or natural disasters)
- Supplier ratings (QBR) and supplier selection
4) Other Collaboration:
- With Factory team to resolve and prevent component quality excursions
- With Mfg Engineering to resolve not fit-for-use issues
- With Product Engineering on optimization to improve drive yield
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