Director of Quality

Primary Duties & Responsibilities


* Lead SiC LLC Quality Function
+ Build strong organization quality talent in SiC LLC plants.
+ Actively engage in resolving customer quality issues and prepare for customer audits.

Drive total customer satisfaction.
+ Coach the plants towards a culture of prevention.
+ Establish strategic quality direction within the plants.
+ Teach advanced Quality classes at the plants.
+ Establish a culture of intelligent risk-taking and guide the plants in choices to help exploit strategic opportunities.
+ Lead in strategic decision-making, and in tactical decision making within important risk-saturated areas.
+ Ensure Quality systems are aligned with identified best-practices.
+ Lead and manage the quality functions at SiC LLC plants.
+ Design and lead production of various dashboards accurately depicting quality product and process status in all plants.


* Create and Maintain QMS Alignment with the Coherent Global Quality System
+ Ensure Quality Manual aligns with Coherent Corporate Global Quality manual.
+ Establish and maintain a process for "Preventive Action Efficiency" to drive mistake-proofing in the factories.
+ Implement and maintain Coherent Global COQ process.
+ Implement and maintain coherent Global KPI process.
+ Implement and maintain Coherent Global QBR.
+ Implement and maintain Coherent Global Risk Assessment process.
+ Implement and maintain the Coherent Global QAT-based assessment QMS effectiveness.
+ Implement and maintain Coherent Global Purge process.
+ Implement and maintain Coherent Global Quality Stop process.
+ Implement and maintain Coherent Global NPI process.
+ Implement and maintain Coherent Global PCN process.


* Lead the Development and Implementation of IAFT 16949 QMS
+ Conceive, design, develop, implement, and continually improve an IATF 16949 certified QMS.
+ Lead efforts to identify, develop, proceduralize, and implement best quality AIAG practices in all SiC LLC plants.
+ Guide best practice design and deployment of processes for PPAP, SPC, MSA, APQP, and FMEA.
+ Implement Coherent Corporate Global internal quality audit process to ensure continual compliance and improvement of the automotive QMS.
+ Design and implement periodic Management Review processes to drive continual improvements.
+ Implement the Coherent Corporate Global 8D corrective action database and ensure its optimum usage.
+ Develop and maintain a Quality Manual.


* Implement and maintain key complimentary processes within SiC LLC
+ Export compliance is maintained.
+ Ensure implementation and maintenance of Coherent Lean process.
+ Implement and maintain necessary ESD processes.
+ Implemen...