Quality Manager

Applied Materials • Santa Clara, CA

3d • Onsite

About The Position

Applied Materials is a global leader in materials engineering solutions used to produce virtually every new chip and advanced display in the world. The company designs, builds, and services cutting-edge equipment that helps customers manufacture display and semiconductor chips, which are the foundation of the global electronics industry and enable technologies like AI and IoT. Joining Applied Materials offers an opportunity to push the boundaries of materials science and engineering to create next-generation technology. The company provides a supportive work culture that encourages learning, development, and career growth, empowering its team to drive innovative solutions. Applied Materials is committed to the health and wellbeing of its employees, offering programs and support for personal and professional growth.

Requirements

• Regarded as the technical expert in their particular field
• Demonstrates in-depth and/or breadth of expertise in own discipline and broad knowledge of other disciplines within the function
• Anticipates business and regulatory issues; recommends product, process or service improvements
• Leads projects with notable risk and complexity; develops the strategy for project execution
• Solves unique and complex problems with broad impact on the business; requires conceptual and innovative thinking to develop solutions
• Impacts the direction and resource allocation for program, project or services; works within general functional policies and industry guidelines
• Communicates complex ideas, anticipates potential objections and persuades others, often at senior levels, to adopt a different point of view

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
• 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

Benefits

• Supportive work culture that encourages you to learn, develop, and grow your career
• Programs and support that encourage personal and professional growth and care for you at work, at home, or wherever you may go
• Comprehensive benefits package
• Participation in a bonus and a stock award program, as applicable

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees