
Senior Director, Customer Quality
Element Solutions Inc
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $197,262 - $295,894 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Serve as the primary contact for all quality-related topics for designated strategic semiconductor customers
- Build and maintain strong relationships with customer quality, engineering, procurement, and operational teams
- Lead regular customer quality reviews, business updates, QBRs, and technical discussions
- Monitor and analyze key customer quality metrics including DPPM, return rates, field failures, defect trends, and audit outcomes
- Track customer scorecards, identify performance gaps, and drive cross-functional actions to achieve target ratings
- Lead end-to-end containment, root cause investigation, and corrective action activities for customer-reported issues
- Coordinate across internal teams—manufacturing, engineering, reliability, supply chain, and product management—to ensure timely and robust problem resolution
- Prepare and deliver customer-facing 8D reports, corrective action plans, and technical documentation with high professionalism and accuracy
- Provide quality and reliability input during new product introduction (NPI)
- Review change notices (PCNs), deviations, and risk assessments
- Support or lead customer audits (process, system, compliance, supplier audits), facilitating corrective actions and closure activities
- Partner with program management, operations, and commercial teams to ensure alignment of quality strategy with business objectives
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in engineering discipline (preferably electronics, chemical, material science)
- 12+ years of experience in quality engineering, customer quality, within the semiconductor industry
- Proven track record directly with major semiconductor OEMs, OSATs, or Tier-1 customers
- Strong understanding of semiconductor materials, processes (wafer fabrication, packaging, assembly, test), and reliability mechanisms
- Expertise in quality tools: SPC, MSA, FMEA, control plans, 8D, PPAP, APQP, DOE, and risk management
- Strong familiarity with semiconductor failure mechanisms, reliability standards, qualification methods, and analytical methods including Failure analysis
- Ability to interpret data and trends including statistical analysis
- Familiar with ISO9001/IATF 16949 quality management standards
Benefits
- Competitive compensation (competitive base salary and performance-related bonus plan)
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Wellness Program
- PTO/Holidays
- 401(k)-retirement plan with a company match
- Paid parental leave
- Tuition reimbursement
- Opportunities for professional development
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
quality engineeringstatistical analysisfailure analysisroot cause investigationcorrective actionsemiconductor materialswafer fabricationpackagingassemblytest
Soft Skills
relationship buildingcommunicationleadershipproblem resolutioncross-functional collaborationprofessionalismanalytical thinkingorganizational skills