Quality Manager

Cambridge GaN Devices Ltd; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in sustainable power electronics is seeking a Quality Manager to join its growing operations team in Cambridge. This role involves driving automotive quality standards, ensuring compliance with business quality processes, and developing best practices in collaboration with international partners. The successful candidate will possess strong analytical skills, industry experience, and a commitment to quality in semiconductor products.

Benefits

Excellent salary

Share options scheme

Pension scheme with 6% company contribution

BUPA Private Medical Insurance

Flexible working options

33 days annual leave including bank holidays

Training and development opportunities

Electric Car Scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Qualifications

• Experience in semiconductor or electronics industry.
• Exposure to Automotive product and quality engineering.
• Solid understanding of manufacturing process quality control.

Responsibilities

• Drive automotive quality standards with internal teams and subcontractors.
• Ensure CGD's business processes meet automotive product quality standards.
• Prepare PPAP documentation and interact with customers.

Skills

Data Analysis

Supplier Quality Management

Quality Audit

Communication

Project Management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electronics or similar discipline

Job description

Team - Product, Test and Quality Engineering of Operations

Location - Cambridge, UK

Contract - Full-Time, Permanent

About CGD

Making Sustainable Power Electronics Possible

A spin-out of the Cambridge University, Cambridge GaN Devices (CGD) is a fabless semiconductor company that develops a range of energy-efficient GaN-based power devices to make greener electronics possible.

The global power semiconductor market is expected to exceed $50BN. In addition to the multi-million seed fund and Series A and now B private investments, CGD has so far successfully secured four projects funded by iUK, BEIS and EU (Penta). The technical and commercial expertise of the CGD team combined with an extensive track record in the power electronics market has been fundamental in early market traction of our proprietary technology.

Bringing Innovation into Everyday Life

The environmental need for solutions to resolve the world's most significant challenges (energy consumption and CO2 emissions) inspires us to contribute to society by preserving nature with energy-efficient power solutions.

With a mindset on pushing the limits of semiconductor (GaN) properties and an outstanding team of worldwide experts leveraging knowledge, IP, and decades of research, we demonstrate technological advancement by developing green solutions for everyday electronics, respecting our planet's natural resources, and creating a more sustainable future for the generations to come.

Why Work for CGD

We Champion Commitment, Celebrate Empowerment, and Reward the Brave.

We are interested in change-makers with a passion for power semiconductors who are willing to explore unconventional ways to meet the company's green agenda.

At CGD, we pride ourselves on putting empowerment and commitment at the core of our company culture. We offer a relaxed yet productive working environment where everybody is valued and respected and becomes part of commercial success while experiencing professional growth.

If your heart beats for innovation, challenge, and growth, and if the prospect of joining a friendly and game-changing company is for you, we want to hear from you.

The Opportunity

CGD is looking for a Quality Manager to join our growing operations team. Reporting directly to the VP of Product and Quality Engineering, this is an amazing opportunity to join CGD at an early stage and help grow the quality function.

You will drive automotive quality standards with both internal teams, and with leading Asian fab, assembly, test and qualification subcontractors, and CGD's customers to deliver best performance and highest quality GaN devices for our international customers.

The role is based at the company's office in Cambridge, UK, though it is expected that travel to Asian subcontractors will be required for this role.

Main Responsibilities

Reporting to the VP of Product and Quality Engineering, you will play a key role in the development and manufacture of CGD's Automotive products. This will include responsibility for ensuring the CGD business processes and New Product Introduction (NPI) flow meet the required standards to deliver Automotive Quality Product as well as the preparation of appropriate collateral such as PPAP documentation. It will require close interaction with CGD's internal team as well as CGD's Asian partners that provide CGD with wafer fab, assembly and test, reliability test and failure analysis services.

In addition to Quality Management responsibilities, the role also requires an ability to assess markets and applications to provide insights and strategies for meeting the existing and future product quality needs of CGD's global automotive customers.

Requirements

Skills and Experience

Essential

• A bachelor's degree or above in Electronics, Microelectronics, Semiconductor Physics, Engineering or similar disciplines
• Demonstrable experience within the semiconductor or electronics industry from working in a Product Engineering or Quality Engineering role from NPI to high volume production stage
• Solid experience in supplier quality management
• External and Internal Quality Audit experience as a VDA6.3 trained auditor
• Semiconductor or electronics product quality experience in developing and executing product qualification plans, reliability and failure studies and RMA handling
• Strong data and analytical skills combined with excellent ability for clear and concise data presentation and derived conclusions
• Extensive experience of Automotive product and quality engineering challenges including FMEDA, PPAP preparation, ASIL rating and AEC-Q101 or AEC-Q100 qualification plans
• Understanding of reliability models required to justify qualification plans
• Automotive customer (OEM or Tier 1) exposure and comfortable with defending product quality strategies to AECQ standards at customer sites
• In depth knowledge of manufacturing process quality control system and statistical analysis methodology: SPC charts review, Cp, Cpk improvement, etc.
• Demonstrable experience of developing and maintaining ISO9001 and ISO14001 general Quality and Environmental best practices
  
  
  

Desirable

• Broad experience of supplier selection and management from within an IDM or fabless semiconductor company
• Experience of assessing and selecting non-destructive and destructive semiconductor failure analysis methods and techniques
• Project management skills
• Experience of power discrete or power integrated circuit manufacture and test
  
  
  

Personal Skills

• Good communication skills and team player attitude
• Self-starter, flexible and able to handle multiple projects in parallel
• Willing and able to travel worldwide when needed
• Fluent in English, both writing and speaking
  
  
  

Benefits

• Excellent salary
• Share options scheme available (so you own a piece of the company!)
• Pension scheme (6% Company contribution)
• Life Assurance (3x Salary)
• BUPA Private Medical Insurance
• BUPA Cash Plan (Level 3)
• Flexible working options (both location and times)
• Annual leave allowance of 33 days (including bank holidays)
• Training and development
• Electric Car Scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• IP bonus scheme
• Involvement in collaborative projects and grants with University of Cambridge and other partners
• Recruitment referral bonus
• Regular social events including frequent company lunches, annual summer party, Christmas party, team building and wellbeing activities
  
  
  

We believe in equal opportunities

It takes a diverse and inclusive community of passionate, talented and committed people to build a system to shape the future of power electronics.

We are committed to providing equal opportunities to all current and prospective employees regardless of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.

We believe that a more inclusive workplace, where people of different backgrounds work together, ensures better outcomes for all employees. We aspire to have a diverse workforce because, in our view, diversity enables better business outcomes. From application to interview, we place inclusion at the heart of all we do.

We are well set up for collaborative hybrid working, with some members of the team working in the UK office and some from home in the UK and other cities in Europe and Asia.