Supplier Quality Leader

This role will have technical ownership of key raw materials supplier performance and balance the technical and commercial aspects with Suppliers to drive continuous improvement and variation reduction while meeting semiconductor industry quality standards. This role will also partner with commercial, plant quality and process teams to improve understanding of raw material interactions and process impacts to reduce the Total Cost of Ownership and improve sustainability. Essential Functions: Manage key raw material quality, grading, and segregation. Proactively monitor SPC trend reviews for raw materials and report out findings and corrective actions. Drive continuous improvement for assigned key raw materials and suppliers, including use of scorecard and audit tools. Serve as a technical owner for supplier changes as it impacts raw material ownership. Drive supplier corrective actions through the SCAR (Supplier Corrective Action Request) process. Own key supplier audits, technical problem-solving initiatives, including customer complaints and excursion investigations that intersect with raw material properties. Work closely with purchasing teams to develop Business Continuity Plans (BCP), qualifying new materials, Suppliers, or Sub-suppliers and rationalizing as needed. Partner with technical and commercial teams to define critical raw material specifications and communicate them to suppliers for agreement and compliance and align with company wide sourcing and sustainability priorities. Collaborate with development teams on high quality and cost-effective material solutions for the next generation of products. Collaborate with suppliers on material design, scaling up, supplier process, and raw material/ product data analysis. Up to 25% travel (domestic and occasional international travel). Minimum Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering, Materials/ Polymer Science, or equivalent is required. Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering, Materials/ Polymer Science, or equivalent is preferred. Six-Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt or equivalent and experience in manufacturing of specialty chemicals, semiconductors, life sciences is required. Statistical tools (Minitab or equivalent) is required. Raw material quality and/or technical supplier ownership in manufacturing of specialty chemicals, semiconductors, life sciences is preferred.

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