Asia Quality Engineering Director

Entegris; Singapore; In loco; SGD 250.000 - 360.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Entegris, Inc. in Singapore seeks a dynamic Asia Quality Engineering Director to shape regional quality strategy and ensure zero-defect, high-reliability outcomes across wafer and assembly value chains.

Based in Singapore, you will lead multi-site teams, collaborate with Sales, Manufacturing, Product, and Supply Chain to meet demanding KPI targets and customer expectations, while mentoring CQE/QE leaders and driving global quality initiatives.

Competenze

• Experience: 12–15+ years in Quality in semiconductor industry.
• 10+ years in a senior leadership role.
• Strong knowledge of front-end/back-end semiconductor processes and customer qualification.
• Expert-level use of 8D, RCA, CAPA/SCAR, FMEA, SPC/SQC, DOE, Six Sigma, and trend analysis.
• Leadership across multi-site teams in Asia; English fluency required.

Mansioni

• Develop and execute regional quality strategies aligned with global objectives.
• Lead quality assurance across regional plants, audits, CAPA, and QMS.
• Interface with strategic Asia customers on excursions and reliability issues.
• Drive Lean Six Sigma initiatives and data analytics to reduce defects.
• Manage and mentor a regional Quality organization across Asia sites.

Conoscenze

Strategic leadership

Quality management

Data-driven decisions

Team leadership

Communication

Cross-cultural leadership

Mentoring

Formazione

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

Master's degree

Descrizione del lavoro

Asia Quality Engineering Director

Asia Quality Engineering Director (Singapore)

Why Join Our Leadership Team

At Entegris, we believe leaders exist at every level of the organization. Weleveragethe 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.

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 Asiaplants 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 therequirements.
• 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.