Supplier Quality Engineer

Job Summary: onsemi is seeking a self-driven and motivated professional to join the Supplier Quality Engineering team. As a Staff Supplier Quality Engineer, you will have the opportunity of leading the qualification projects of our most advanced technologies and participating in a broad range of supplier quality activities in a highly dynamic working environment. Performance Objectives • Ensure that products and materials supplied to onsemi comply with applicable drawings, specifications, manufacturing requirements, quality standards, and reliability expectations. • Lead supplier development and quality improvement activities across new product introduction, new technology introduction, qualification, and mass production. • Build quality into supplier products and processes by emphasizing early risk identification, defect prevention, process robustness, and effective corrective and preventive action. NPI/NTI and Supplier Development • Lead Supplier Quality Engineering activities for NPI and NTI programs to ensure supplier product, process, capacity, and quality readiness support onsemi time-to-market requirements. • Partner with suppliers, R&D, Product Engineering, Process Engineering, Manufacturing, Procurement, and Global Commodity Management to define requirements and resolve design, material, manufacturability, and quality risks early. • Drive APQP, PPAP, DFMEA, PFMEA, Control Plan, DFM/DFQ, process validation, measurement-system readiness, and qualification evidence for assigned commodities and suppliers. Supplier Performance and Quality Improvement • Serve as the Seremban site Supplier Quality lead for assigned critical direct materials and supplier-quality improvement initiatives supporting released products. • Monitor supplier quality performance, identify adverse trends and systemic risks, and lead improvement plans for poor-performing or high-risk suppliers. • Lead rapid containment, structured root-cause analysis, corrective and preventive action, effectiveness verification, and recurrence prevention for supplier-related quality issues. • Track, manage, and report assigned quality initiatives, supplier recovery plans, qualification status, risks, and executive-level escalations. Critical Direct Materials and Technical Leadership • Provide technical leadership for critical direct materials such as AMB/DCB, ceramic, substrate, leadframe, tape-and-reel materials, mold compound, wire, solder paste, sintering materials, and related power-semiconductor materials. • Evaluate supplier product and process capability, material characteristics, metrology, reliability performance, process robustness, and change-control effectiveness. • Develop and maintain commodity-specific supplier assessment, qualification, control, and prevention requirements from product development through mass production. Audits, Qualification, and Quality Systems • Plan and conduct supplier system, process, product, qualification, and special-process audits, particularly for new suppliers, new technologies, transfers, and significant supplier changes. • Lead supplier qualification audits and ensure timely closure and effectiveness verification of corrective and preventive actions. • Maintain accurate supplier-quality records, audit evidence, qualification documentation, and risk assessments in accordance with onsemi procedures and applicable automotive-quality requirements. Global Collaboration and Standardization • Collaborate with SQE, SDE, IQA, manufacturing sites, and subject-matter experts across the global organization to solve technical issues and build quality synergy. • Drive standardization across worldwide factories for material verification, supplier assessment, qualification, audit methods, change control, and supplier performance management. • Partner with Global Commodity Managers to support cost and supply-chain objectives while maintaining appropriate quality, reliability, and risk controls. Requirements: • Qualifications and Experience • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Materials Science, Materials Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related technical discipline. • +8 years of relevant experience in semiconductor engineering, manufacturing, quality, supplier quality, supplier development, or a closely related function. Experience in power semiconductor products or materials is strongly preferred. • Demonstrated early-career experience in manufacturing process engineering, product engineering, product design, materials engineering, or equipment/process development, followed by substantial experience in Quality or Supplier Quality. Technical depth is essential; prior people-management experience is advantageous but not required. • Demonstrated expertise in at least one critical material, supplier process, or technology area listed below. • AMB/DCB and ceramic processing, including ceramic microstructure, metallization, interface design, bonding, isolation, warpage, porosity, and reliability considerations. • Material joining and welding technologies. • Electroless and electrolytic plating processes, surface preparation, adhesion, thickness control, and defect mechanisms. • Soldering and sintering materials and processes, including material selection, process windows, joint integrity, and reliability. • Material characterization, metrology, laboratory testing, and reliability evaluation. • Working knowledge of APQP, PPAP, DFMEA, PFMEA, Control Plan, MSA, SPC, DFM/DFQ, process certification, and process-robustness principles. • Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings, material specifications, schematics, test methods, and supplier technical documentation. • Strong structured problem-solving and data-analysis capability. Six Sigma Black Belt certification or equivalent mastery of Six Sigma methods is preferred. • Strong project-management, prioritization, negotiation, stakeholder-management, comm…