The Quality Engineer II evaluates internal systems and leads improvement initiatives to enhance Business Unit quality performance, including forming and guiding Quality Task Forces for targeted projects. Assesses the adequacy of process controls and system improvements to prevent misprocessing and determines appropriate involvement of external customers in product quality issues. Identifies and coordinates key stakeholders to review material quality concerns and facilitates final product disposition and acceptability decisions. Evaluates the effectiveness of management and support processes across local and global sites to ensure compliance with IATF 16949, the International Management System (IMS), customer‑specific requirements, and applicable local and international quality standards.
Job Duties:
- Interact with customers on quality related issues, and work to resolve C1s, MRBs, etc. Monitor and ensure proper activities surrounding all aspects of the product including technical parameters, lot integrity, packaging, shipment preparation, labels, packing list, CofC, etc.
- Utilize existing data and feedback systems and trace lot genealogies, with special focus on containment action.
- Lead and facilitate root cause analysis, containment measures and solutions through Quality Task Force project management.
- Establish internal quality projects to reduce QNs thus improving yield, on-time shipments, cycle time, variation, and operating costs. Monitor and control the execution of assigned project tasks.
- Review customer specifications and data and ensure traceability and acceptability.
- Evaluate and prepare capability data reports for periodic presentation to customers, which may include off site visits.
- Organize and facilitate internal and external audits.
- Provide a leadership role in the team environment.
- Obtain cross-site project closures, which may require international travel.
- Communicate quality status and customer needs to the Business Unit.
- Provide face-to-face responses to customers, requiring domestic travel.
- Evaluate sample plans for effectiveness.
- Provide quality training as appropriate.
Position Requirements:
To ensure a safe work environment while meeting the physical demands of the job, you must be able to perform the following tasks:
- Ability to sit / stand / walk as required for various periods of time
- Ability to use office equipment, phones, laptop effectively for various amounts of time throughout the day
- Ability to work in a cleanroom environment
Benefits and Compensation:
- 120 hours vacation
- 10 Paid Holidays
- 60 hours of sick time
- Medical / Dental / Vision
- Health Savings Account Option
- Long Term Disability
- Parental Leave
- Paid Leave Oregon
- Life Insurance
- Supplemental Life Insurance
- Educational Assistance
- Employee Assistance Program
- Financial Wellness Assistance
- Legal Insurance
- Quarterly Success Share Bonus
- Referral Program
- Retirement Plan Options, up to 5% Match
- Sponsored Wellness Programs & Challenges
- Subsidize Public Transportation Pass
**Relocation assistance is not offered
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What We Do
Success through Silicon Siltronic AG ranks as one of the global semiconductor market leaders and is recognized as one of the technology leaders in the design and production of highly specialized silicon wafers. We are a stock-listed company (MDAX, TecDAX: WAF) with a long tradition and are internationally positioned and strategically close to our customers. We stand for uncompromising quality, innovation, efficiency and precision. All over the world, wafers made of hyperpure silicon form the basis of the highly complex semiconductor elements driving high voltage applications, low-resistivity circuits for automotive engineering and telecommunications, as well as highly integrated microprocessors and memory components for information processing. Without silicon wafers, everyday objects such as smartphones, computers, navigation systems, and displays, would be inconceivable. At the same time, the demands made on today’s modern wafers are more varied and individual than ever before. Employing a workforce of around 4,100 members of staff, Siltronic commands a global network of advanced, leading edge production plants in Asia, Europe and the USA, including today’s most advanced, leading edge production facilities for 200 mm and 300 mm wafers in Singapore.
