Director, Global Supplier Quality
Formfactor
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Farmers Branch • California • Texas • United States
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About the role
- Lead and scale the company’s Global Supplier Quality capability across a diverse, international supply base supporting advanced semiconductor probe card manufacturing.
- Establish consistent supplier quality governance, disciplined execution, and measurable performance across regions to prevent quality escapes, reduce variability, and support predictable manufacturing and customer outcomes.
- Own supplier quality strategy, operating rhythm, and performance management—ensuring suppliers worldwide meet FormFactor’s quality, compliance, and change control expectations while enabling business growth and supply continuity.
- Define and deploy FormFactor’s global supplier quality governance model, including standards, decision forums, escalation paths, and regional deployment.
- Ensure consistent application of supplier quality processes and expectations across regions and sites.
- Establish and review global supplier quality metrics, including escapes, SCAR performance, repeat issues, and risk trends, providing visibility to senior leadership.
- Facilitate regular supplier quality controls and data reviews with critical suppliers, leveraging SPC, control plans, audit results, and leading indicators.
- Ensure supplier data is used effectively to detect risk early and drive preventive actions.
- Lead supplier quality requirements for supplier selection and qualification globally, with particular focus on critical and high-risk suppliers.
- Serve as Change Control Board (CCB) lead for supplier initiated changes (process, material, equipment, capacity), ensuring disciplined risk assessment, approval, and validation.
- Ensure consistent re qualification and readiness following approved supplier changes.
- Drive rigor, consistency, and accountability in SCAR and 8D execution across the global supply base.
- Ensure root cause analyses address systemic issues and result in sustainable corrective actions.
- Track SCAR cycle time, effectiveness, and recurrence to continuously raise supplier performance.
- Lead global continuous improvement initiatives to reduce defects, variability, and recurring supplier issues.
- Promote prevention based supplier quality practices over inspection based containment.
- Partner with Strategic Sourcing on supplier development and long-term performance improvement plans.
- Serve as the global Quality interface to Supply Chain, Operations, Engineering, Customer Quality, and Strategic Sourcing on supplier quality matters.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Quality, or a related technical discipline.
- 12+ years of experience in Supplier Quality, Manufacturing Quality, or Quality Systems within semiconductor, electronics, or advanced manufacturing environments.
- 7+ years of people leadership experience, including managing managers or senior engineers in global or multi site organizations.
- Strong working knowledge of supplier audits, quality systems, manufacturing process controls, change control aligned with statistical-based qualification practices, corrective action processes, and structured problem solving.
- Proven experience managing global suppliers and complex, international supply chains.
- Strong executive communication skills and ability to influence across regions and functions.
- ASQ or equivalent quality certifications (CQE, CQA, Six Sigma).
- Experience in semiconductor manufacturing environments, including familiarity with precision electromechanical components and their associated manufacturing processes, quality controls and failure modes.
- Demonstrated success building or scaling global supplier quality organizations and operating models with quantifiable business impact.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Flexible working hours
- Paid time off
- Professional development opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
supplier quality managementquality systemsmanufacturing process controlschange controlstatistical-based qualification practicescorrective action processesstructured problem solvingroot cause analysiscontinuous improvementSCAR execution
Soft Skills
people leadershipexecutive communicationinfluencecollaborationaccountabilitystrategic thinkingrisk assessmentperformance managementdata analysisrelationship management
Certifications
ASQCQECQASix Sigma