Senior Manager, Quality Assurance Engineering

Summary

Join Western Digital, a global technology leader, and contribute your expertise to a dynamic team. This role involves managing change management for wafer process qualifications, overseeing material recoveries, and leading a team of QA engineers. You will facilitate new product reviews and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure high-quality wafer output. The ideal candidate possesses a Bachelor's or Master's degree in a relevant field with extensive experience in wafer fab engineering. Strong project leadership, data analysis, and communication skills are essential. Western Digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including paid time off, health insurance, retirement plans, and various other perks.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with 15 years’ or master’s degree with 10 years’ experience in wafer fab engineering of magnetic head or other semi conductor products of comparable complexity
• Project leadership to coordinate, facilitate, and drive actions with cross-functional teams
• Data analysis and basic understanding of process parameters to performance correlation
• Create executive summary and present to upper management
• Excellent communication and presentation skills

Responsibilities

• Manage change management for wafer process qualifications
• Manage review for material recoveries
• Manage a team of QA engineers to support issues flagged by customers following 8D and 6sigma methodology
• Facilitate new product review in formal forum following corporate product review guidelines from initial reviews to production start
• Collaborate with FA and yield engineering to assure wafer outgoing quality
• Promote Quality Culture among wafer process and equipment engineering teams
• Facilitate process FMEA with cross functional teams

Preferred Qualifications

Knowledge of the integrated process flow from wafer start to finish

Benefits

• Paid vacation time
• Paid sick leave
• Medical/dental/vision insurance
• Life, accident and disability insurance
• Tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts
• Employee assistance program
• Other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity
• Tuition reimbursement
• Transit
• The Applause Program
• Employee stock purchase plan
• The Western Digital Savings 401(k) Plan
• Short-Term Incentive (STI) Plan
• Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program