Senior Quality Manager – Semiconductor Systems

Applied Materials; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 154,000 - 212,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus program

Stock award program

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

Applied Materials in Santa Clara, CA, seeks a Quality Systems leader to manage QMS, audit programs, and ISO compliance across the SSQA process. You will design methods, test plans, and standards to ensure product quality from processing to finished goods while partnering with customers and suppliers.

This role requires strong cross‑functional collaboration, strategic problem solving, and the ability to drive continuous improvement across global factories, with a 10% travel expectation and

Qualifications

• Experience managing QMS and audits to ISO standards.
• Ability to identify systemic issues and drive continuous improvement.
• Strong collaboration with customers and cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Manages QMS and ensures compliance to requirements through internal audits, external certification ISO standards and sourcing audits via Applied's SSQA process.
• Develop, applies, revises, and maintains quality standards for processing materials into partially finished or finished products. Designs and implements methods and procedures for testing and inspecting the quality level of products and equipment.
• Identify systemic issues and drive continuous improvement across the assigned business unit.
• Success in this role will be measured against business unit customer satisfaction indices and customer quality indices.
• Drives enterprise wide change management to ensure proper alignment across regional business units and global factories in order to minimize quality issues and improve customer satisfaction.
• Interacts with customers and functional managers and engineers in product development, design, test, marketing, sales, planning, manufacturing, etc. These interactions often are with regard to potential, real or perceived customer quality or reliability concerns arising from technical, administrative or logistical events.
• Interfaces with customers, vendors, and various company departments to resolve quality problems and provide information.
• Coaches, mentors and conducts training for targeted organizations on quality processes. Reduces qualification cycle time and cost while still meeting reliability performance requirements.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Problem solving

Leadership

Job description

Applied Materials in Santa Clara, CA, seeks a Quality Systems leader to manage QMS, audit programs, and ISO compliance across the SSQA process. You will design methods, test plans, and standards to ensure product quality from processing to finished goods while partnering with customers and suppliers.

This role requires strong cross‑functional collaboration, strategic problem solving, and the ability to drive continuous improvement across global factories, with a 10% travel expectation and