Supplier Quality Engineer

Job Summary:

onsemi is seeking a self-driven and motivated professional to join the Supplier Quality Engineering team. As a Staff Supplier Quality Engineer, you will have the opportunity of leading the qualification projects of our most advanced technologies and participating in a broad range of supplier quality activities in a highly dynamic working environment.

Performance Objectives

• Ensure that products and materials supplied to onsemi comply with applicable drawings, specifications, manufacturing requirements, quality standards, and reliability expectations.
• Lead supplier development and quality improvement activities across new product introduction, new technology introduction, qualification, and mass production.
• Build quality into supplier products and processes by emphasizing early risk identification, defect prevention, process robustness, and effective corrective and preventive action.

Responsibilities

NPI/NTI and Supplier Development

• Lead Supplier Quality Engineering activities for NPI and NTI programs to ensure supplier product, process, capacity, and quality readiness support onsemi time-to-market requirements.
• Partner with suppliers, R&D, Product Engineering, Process Engineering, Manufacturing, Procurement, and Global Commodity Management to define requirements and resolve design, material, manufacturability, and quality risks early.
• Drive APQP, PPAP, DFMEA, PFMEA, Control Plan, DFM/DFQ, process validation, measurement-system readiness, and qualification evidence for assigned commodities and suppliers.

Supplier Performance and Quality Improvement

• Serve as the Seremban site Supplier Quality lead for assigned critical direct materials and supplier-quality improvement initiatives supporting released products.
• Monitor supplier quality performance, identify adverse trends and systemic risks, and lead improvement plans for poor-performing or high-risk suppliers.
• Lead rapid containment, structured root-cause analysis, corrective and preventive action, effectiveness verification, and recurrence prevention for supplier-related quality issues.
• Track, manage, and report assigned quality initiatives, supplier recovery plans, qualification status, risks, and executive-level escalations.

Critical Direct Materials and Technical Leadership

• Provide technical leadership for critical direct materials such as AMB/DCB, ceramic, substrate, leadframe, tape-and-reel materials, mold compound, wire, solder paste, sintering materials, and related power-semiconductor materials.
• Evaluate supplier product and process capability, material characteristics, metrology, reliability performance, process robustness, and change-control effectiveness.
• Develop and maintain commodity-specific supplier assessment, qualification, control, and prevention requirements from product development through mass production.

Audits, Qualification, and Quality Systems

• Plan and conduct supplier system, process, product, qualification, and special-process audits, particularly for new suppliers, new technologies, transfers, and significant supplier changes.
• Lead supplier qualification audits and ensure timely closure and effectiveness verification of corrective and preventive actions.
• Maintain accurate supplier-quality records, audit evidence, qualification documentation, and risk assessments in accordance with onsemi procedures and applicable automotive-quality requirements.

Global Collaboration and Standardization

• Collaborate with SQE, SDE, IQA, manufacturing sites, and subject-matter experts across the global organization to solve technical issues and build quality synergy.
• Drive standardization across worldwide factories for material verification, supplier assessment, qualification, audit methods, change control, and supplier performance management.
• Partner with Global Commodity Managers to support cost and supply-chain objectives while maintaining appropriate quality, reliability, and risk controls.

Qualifications

Requirements:

• Qualifications and Experience
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Materials Science, Materials Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• +8 years of relevant experience in semiconductor engineering, manufacturing, quality, supplier quality, supplier development, or a closely related function. Experience in power semiconductor products or materials is strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated early-career experience in manufacturing process engineering, product engineering, product design, materials engineering, or equipment/process development, followed by substantial experience in Quality or Supplier Quality. Technical depth is essential; prior people-management experience is advantageous but not required.
• Demonstrated expertise in at least one critical material, supplier process, or technology area listed below.
• AMB/DCB and ceramic processing, including ceramic microstructure, metallization, interface design, bonding, isolation, warpage, porosity, and reliability considerations.
• Material joining and welding technologies.
• Electroless and electrolytic plating processes, surface preparation, adhesion, thickness control, and defect mechanisms.
• Soldering and sintering materials and processes, including material selection, process windows, joint integrity, and reliability.
• Material characterization, metrology, laboratory testing, and reliability evaluation.
• Working knowledge of APQP, PPAP, DFMEA, PFMEA, Control Plan, MSA, SPC, DFM/DFQ, process certification, and process-robustness principles.
• Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings, material specifications, schematics, test methods, and supplier technical documentation.
• Strong structured problem-solving and data-analysis capability. Six Sigma Black Belt certification or equivalent mastery of Six Sigma methods is preferred.
• Strong project-management, prioritization, negotiation, stakeholder-management, communication, and executive-articulation skills. IPMA, PMP, or equivalent certification is advantageous.
• IATF 16949, VDA 6.3, and certified Lead Auditor qualifications are preferred but not required.
• Fluent written and spoken English for collaboration with global stakeholders and international suppliers.
• High initiative, sound technical judgment, and the ability to work independently in a cross-functional and global environment.

• Ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally, including on short notice when business conditions require.

onsemi (Nasdaq: ON) is driving disruptive innovations to help build a better future. With a continued focus on the automotive and industrial end-markets, onsemi is accelerating change and driving disruptive innovation towards a sustainable ecosystem in high-growth megatrends such as vehicle electrification, advanced safety, alternative energy, and factory automation. With a highly differentiated and innovative product portfolio, onsemi creates intelligent power and sensing technologies that solve the world’s most complex challenges and leads the way in creating a safer, cleaner, and smarter world. Today, the industrial and automotive end-markets are responsible for two-thirds of global greenhouse gas emissions, providing an immense opportunity for onsemi to do its part in achieving a net-zero economy with its intelligent power and sensing technologies. Climate change presents not only a risk to the environment, but also opportunities for innovative business solutions, and onsemi is committed to applying its research and design expertise and adapting its own operations to achieve net-zero emissions by 2040.

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