Asia Quality Engineering Director

Entegris Inc.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Entegris Inc. seeks an Asia Quality Engineering Director in Singapore. This leadership role is pivotal for driving quality excellence across semiconductor manufacturing sites, with responsibilities spanning strategic leadership and customer quality interface.

The ideal candidate will have over 12 years of experience in Quality within the semiconductor industry, strong leadership capabilities, and expertise in quality management systems. Proficiency in English and knowledge of regional languages are advantageous.

Qualifications

• 12-15+ years of Quality experience in the semiconductor industry, with 10+ years in a senior leadership role.
• Working knowledge of front-end and/or back-end processes is preferred.
• Excellent verbal and written English; proficiency in additional regional languages is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute regional quality strategies aligned with global corporate objectives.
• Lead quality assurance processes and manage performance monitoring.
• Serve as the key quality liaison for strategic Asia customers.

Skills

Quality experience in semiconductor industry

Six Sigma

Data analysis and statistical methods

Leadership in cross-cultural teams

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Physics, or Materials Science

Master’s degree

Tools

8D

RCA

CAPA/SCAR

FMEA

SPC/SQC

DOE

Job description

## Asia Quality Engineering DirectorApplylocations: Singapore, Singaporetime type: Full timeposted on: Posted Todayjob requisition id: REQ-12243**Job Title:**Asia Quality Engineering Director**Job Description:****Asia Quality Engineering Director (Singapore)****Why Join Our Leadership Team**At Entegris, we believe leaders exist at every level of the organization. We leverage the diverse perspectives of our global team to drive innovation in the semiconductor industry. As the Asia Quality Engineering Director, you will be a high-impact, high-visibility leader responsible for shaping quality excellence in one of our most critical regions.We are a values-driven culture, and we expect our leaders to champion our **PACE** values:* **People & Teamwork:** Build and mentor ambitious, high-performing teams.* **Accountability, Integrity & Trust:**Own regional performance and foster transparent relationships.* **Creativity & Innovation:** Find unique solutions to complex customer challenges.* **Dedication to Excellence:** Set the gold standard for quality and operational success.* **Job Overview****Leadership Expectations (PACE + Great Leader Profile)*** **Customer centricity:** Anticipate customer requirements, translate Voice of Customer (VOC) into measurable quality plans, and lead crisp communication during escalations.* **Data-driven decisions with speed:** Use risk assessment and statistical methods to accelerate containment, root cause confirmation, and permanent corrective/preventive actions.* **Accountability:** Establish clear ownership across sites and functions, deliver on commitments, and reinforce disciplined execution against KPIs.* **Global partnership:** Align priorities across Asia plants and North America-based manufacturing/support teams to ensure consistent standards and one-team execution.* **Innovation:** Modernize quality systems and reporting, standardize best-known methods, and scale improvements across sites.* **Talent development:** Build organizational capability by hiring, coaching, and developing CQE/QE leaders; create succession depth and strong knowledge transfer.*These expectations align to Entegris’ PACE Values and the Great Leader Profile (GLP) characteristics used across the company to define and develop leadership behaviors.*The Asia Quality Engineering Director is a dynamic, cross-functional leadership role responsible for developing and executing regional quality strategy aligned to global objectives—driving **zero-defect** performance and **high-reliability** outcomes across Process and Product Management -related value chains. Based in **Singapore** and reporting to global Quality leadership, this role leads multi-site teams and partners with Sales, Manufacturing, Product, and Supply Chain to meet demanding customer and corporate KPIs.**Primary Responsibilities*** **Strategic leadership:** Develop and execute regional quality strategies aligned with global corporate objectives to achieve zero-defect, high-reliability standards for wafers and assembly; translate strategy into operating mechanisms, resourcing, and measurable outcomes.* **Quality Management System (QMS):** Lead quality assurance processes for regional plants, including qualification, change management, performance monitoring, audits, corrective action plans maintain, effective CAPA closure and continuously improve the QMS across Asia manufacturing sites to ensure readiness and adherence to the requirements.* **Customer quality interface:** Serve as the key quality liaison for strategic Asia customers; lead escalations for quality excursions and reliability failures, and drive robust corrective actions using **six sigma**, **8D**, **RCA**, and cross-functional containment/prevention plans.* **Continuous improvement:** Champion a quality-first culture by driving Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma initiatives; strengthen process control and capability using data analytics to reduce defect density and improve customer satisfaction.* **Team leadership:** Lead, mentor, and scale a high-performing regional Quality organization across multiple Asia locations; set clear expectations, develop successors, and build strong engagement and retention.**Required Qualifications & Skills*** **Experience:** **12–15+ years** of Quality experience in the semiconductor industry, including **10+ years** in a senior leadership role.* **Technical knowledge:** working knowledge or experience of **front-end** (wafer fabrication) and/or **back-end** (assembly, packaging, test) processes/ ecosystem of customer qualification and change control expectations is strongly preferred.* **Semiconductor quality toolkit:** Expert-level application of 8D, RCA, CAPA/SCAR, FMEA, SPC/SQC, DOE, Six Sigma, and trend/statistical analysis to drive robust corrective and preventive action.* **Problem-solving:** Demonstrated ability to lead containment, failure analysis, root cause confirmation, and permanent fixes in time-sensitive, customer-facing situations.* **Leadership:** Strong cross-cultural leadership capability to lead teams across multiple Asia locations (e.g., Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, China, Korea and Japan) and influence outcomes through a matrixed organization.* **Education:** Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Physics, or Materials Science; Master’s degree is highly desired.* **Communication:** Excellent verbal and written **English**; proficiency in additional regional languages (including Mandarin) is a plus.* **Location & travel:** Based in **Singapore** and willing to travel frequently within Asia and periodically to global headquarters/manufacturing support teams as needed.