Senior Customer Quality Manager

onsemi; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 288,000; Full time

Job summary

onsemi's San Jose, CA-based Senior Customer Quality Manager leads the Global CQE team to champion customer quality requirements and partnerships across Semiconductor/Automotive/Industrial segments. You will be the primary customer-facing voice, driving quality improvements and swift resolution of issues with Sales, Product, Test Eng, and Manufacturing, while maintaining audits and RMAs.

The role demands deep semiconductor quality expertise, strong collaboration across functions, and willingness

Qualifications

• Bachelor's/Masters/PhD in Engineering or related field with customer-facing skills.
• 10+ years in semiconductor quality, customer quality, or related roles.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead customer quality improvement programs and KPI initiatives.
• Drive cross-functional 8D/5D problem-solving with global teams.
• Manage customer quality requirements, RMAs and audits.

Skills

Customer facing

Quality management

Semiconductor quality

Cross-functional collaboration

8D problem solving

Root cause analysis

Education

Bachelor's/Master's/PhD in Engineering

10+ years in semiconductor quality

Tools

APQP

FMEA

Job description

The Senior Customer Quality Manager is an important customer-facing, hands-on role within the Global Customer Quality Engineering (CQE) team responsible for customer semiconductor quality requirements and developing customer relationships & partnership alliance.

Reporting to the US Customer Quality Director in the US CQE organization, you will be based in onsemi's San Jose, CA office as the main focal point and the voice of the customer for semiconductor quality and reliability with Semiconductor/Automotive/Ind/commercial customers.

You will be the key customer facing contact to manage customers' quality requirements and developing customer relationships. You will act as the customer quality champion and voice of the customer within onsemi and ensuring customer requirements are understood and met.

The position will require a strong semiconductor quality background as daily collaboration with Sales, Product & Test Engineering, Product Quality, Central Engineering, Manufacturing & BU Operations is needed.

Be the key customer interface to manage customers' quality requirements and develop customer relationships.

Lead customer quality improvement programs for customer KPI improvement (customer KPIs customer quality card, Customer scorecards via QBRs)

Lead cross functional problem-solving activities and 8D and improve 5D cycle time by driving cross-functional global 8D teams to ensure expedient resolution of customer quality issues from initiation to closure.

Improve Customer trust factors by listening & reviewing customer voice of concern, reconcile customer Issues & hot items & setting up clear strategies to improve them towards customer satisfaction.

Solid Semiconductor/Automotive Quality/Engineering background

Review of Customer Quality requirements and improving overall CQE KPIs

Be a SME and drive closure of all quality-related issues, RMAs, and customer requests ensuring key stakeholders are informed on major customer quality topics.

Handle semiconductor/automotive customer field returns/8D/FA cases, and audit support.

Establish and maintain a healthy customer relationship to increase customer satisfaction and conduct periodic feedback from customers.

Ability to describe faults, manage analysis processes, and set up corrective actions with cross-functional teams.

Provide timely containment of customer escalations based on risk assessment and preliminary FA analysis.

Follow up and collaborate with customers to resolve issues, and timely report issues and handle emergency cases independently.

Summarize customer quality issues and take ownership of resolution in the assigned areas by promoting customer dashboard, customer pulse and customer score card techniques.

Act as a host for customer quality audits and conduct/support successful audits and closure of post audit improvement/action items.

Able to handle customer PCN (Product Change Notices) in a timely manner without impacting on customer quality, form fit and functioning of the device.

Willing to travel both domestically and internationally.

Bachelor's/Masters/PHD in Engineering, Semiconductor/Quality, Electrical, Electronics, Mechanical Engineering, or relevant field with customer-facing skills and experiences.

10+ years in a comparable role for semiconductor quality, customer quality, automotive quality, product quality, quality management systems, PCN management, reliability engineering, failure analysis, product & test engineering or production quality control in the semiconductor industry.

Background in customer-facing roles especially in semiconductor/automotive Industry and strategic leadership

Hands-on skills in Quality tools and methodologies i.e. Is/Is-Not, Fault Tree Analysis, Fishbone, 5-why, 8D, statistics and structured problem-solving techniques.

Strong technical problem solving and hands-on skills in quality tools and methodologies, especially Medical and/or automotive, e.g. APQP, ZVEI, AEC, VDA, PPAP, etc.

In-depth knowledge of semiconductor device & package fails mechanisms/symptoms.

Excellent ability to manage both internal and external dynamic environments and circumstances through influence and negotiation skills to respond to challenging information and situations.

Excellent communication, technical writing and presentation skills.

Candidate should have a solid quality / engineering background, along with good teamwork and communication skills across worldwide time zones.

onsemi is excited to share the base salary range for this position is $169,505.00 to $287,500.00 exclusive of fringe benefits or potential bonuses. The final pay rate for the successful candidate will depend on geographic location, skills, education, experience, and/or consideration of internal equity of our current team members. We also offer a competitive benefits package. https://www.onsemi.com/site/pdf/Benefits-Summary-USA.pdf