Senior Quality Leader - Manufacturing & Customer Quality

Applied Materials, Inc.; Gloucester (MA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 198,000; Full time

Job summary

Applied Materials, Inc. is seeking an experienced Manufacturing Quality Leader for our Gloucester, MA facility.

You will drive factory quality performance, lead MRRT and metrology, and push continuous improvements—reducing DMRs, scrap, and NCs while coordinating cross-functional efforts with Operations, Engineering, and Supply Chain. The role requires deep leadership, extensive experience in quality systems, and the ability to influence at all levels.

Qualifications

• Significant progressive experience in manufacturing, quality engineering, operations engineering or a related technical leadership function.
• Demonstrated experience leading manufacturing/factory quality organizations or teams in a complex manufacturing environment.
• Strong working knowledge of nonconformance management, MRB, root-cause analysis, corrective action and defect-prevention methodologies.
• Demonstrated ability to use factory metrics such as DMR, scrap, nonconformance and production-impact data to prioritize and drive improvement.
• Experience leading cross-functional problem solving across Quality, Operations and Engineering.
• Demonstrated people-leadership capability, including organizational development, coaching, accountability, and performance management.

Responsibilities

• Lead overall Manufacturing Quality performance for the Gloucester factory.
• Own strategies and actions to reduce DMRs, Scrap, Manufacturing IOF Nonconformances (NC), and quality-related factory disruptions against established AOP objectives.
• Lead MRRT and factory quality escalation, ensuring effective risk assessment, containment, ownership, and corrective action.
• Lead the on-site Metrology organization, including measurement-system and calibration governance.
• Own Manufacturing Quality AOP metrics, scorecards, performance reviews, manufacturing escalations, and QBR reporting.
• Drive standardization and continuous improvement of Manufacturing Quality processes and operating practices in harmonization with other BUs within Applied Materials.

Skills

Manufacturing quality leadership

Quality engineering

Nonconformance management

Root-cause analysis

Cross-functional problem solving

Executive communication

Education

Advanced degree in Engineering/Quality/Operations/Business

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

Applied Materials, Inc. is seeking an experienced Manufacturing Quality Leader for our Gloucester, MA facility.

You will drive factory quality performance, lead MRRT and metrology, and push continuous improvements—reducing DMRs, scrap, and NCs while coordinating cross-functional efforts with Operations, Engineering, and Supply Chain. The role requires deep leadership, extensive experience in quality systems, and the ability to influence at all levels.