Quality Manager - Semiconductor Fab

About the role

Applied Materials, a global leader in materials science and engineering solutions for semiconductors and advanced displays, is hiring a Quality Manager in Singapore. The role leads the quality and reliability program across multiple sites or related teams, defines standards and procedures, and drives continuous improvement in the front-end semiconductor fab.

Key responsibilities

• Manage the quality and reliability program, including defining, specifying and implementing standards, methods and procedures.
• Lead global or site-specific deviation management, root-cause analysis (e.g. 8D, CAPA) and quality event reduction programs to reduce wafer scrap and excursions.
• Establish, maintain and audit QMS compliance against global standards such as ISO and IATF, and drive data-driven problem solving with SPC, FMEA and yield-improvement tools.
• Oversee incoming raw material standards with procurement and act as technical escalation point for customer quality audits.
• Take part in the process change review board (PCRB) and chair documentation meetings (OI, SOP, OCAP).
• Apply quality activities in administrative areas, advise engineering and manufacturing on good quality practices, and lead subordinates in meeting QA requirements.
• Select, train, evaluate and manage employees, and provide inputs to business, production and organizational plans.

Required profile

• Leadership of multiple related teams, setting priorities and allocating resources.
• Ability to identify and resolve complex technical, operational and organizational problems.
• Influence with internal and external stakeholders, including senior management.
• Understanding of Applied Materials' global Standards of Business Conduct and compliance with them.

Required skills

• Front-end semiconductor fab working knowledge and experience.
• Comprehensive understanding of the job family and its integration within the segment, plus knowledge of related job families.
• Statistical Process Control (SPC) and Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA).