Supplier Quality Engineer

Overview

Supplier Quality Engineer for Semtech's OSAT (outsourced semiconductor assembly and test) partners, based in Gujarat, responsible for quality strategy, governance, performance analytics and strategic partnership with OSAT suppliers.

What you'll do

• Ensure OSATs understand all Semtech quality and reliability requirements, conducting regular trainings or meetings to update them on changes.
• Conduct QMS audits, manufacturing process audits, preventive audits, SCAR audits and product audits to ensure compliance with Semtech requirements, industry standards and OSAT internal specifications.
• Close gaps and non-compliances immediately.
• Drive OSATs to run continuous improvement projects aimed at preventing customer complaints and internal quality incidents and reducing defect rates, facilitating and collaborating with cross-functional teams including Semtech teams.
• Work with OSATs to prepare for Semtech end customer audits and ensure they pass.
• Provide corrective or improvement actions when end customers raise concerns or findings.
• Share lessons learned from other OSATs with similar product lines and share best practices and BKMs with all OSATs.
• Work with OSATs to resolve quality incidents immediately, with help from Semtech and OSAT teams, and ensure effective corrective and preventive actions to avoid recurrence.
• Promote known continuous improvement techniques such as Lean, Six Sigma, Poka-Yoke, Measurement System Analysis (MSA), FMEA, Control Plan (CP) and Statistical Process Control (SPC).
• Conduct supplier quality procedure and process training and awareness activities.
• Provide feedback to OSATs on quality and operational performance through scorecards, quality meetings and management meetings, and request improvement actions as needed.
• Support review and disposition of non-conforming material, review of process changes, customer information and supplier quality data.
• Work with design and manufacturing engineering to define process parameters and criteria ensuring supplier process capability meets product and process requirements.
• Support new product launches to ensure suppliers can deliver to required quality standards.
• Support corporate customer information requests, such as OSAT compliance with environmental, health and safety policies and procedures.

What you'll need

• B.S. degree in Engineering or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in quality control in semiconductor manufacturing, probing, wafer preparation, die preparation, assembly and final test areas.
• Proficiency in quality analysis tools such as 8D, PPAP and PFMEA.
• Strong problem-solving skills, with ability to teach basic problem-solving techniques and facilitate problem-solving team events.
• Experience in developing part certification processes and vendor quality measures.
• Solid communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills to lead the activities of engineers and inspectors.
• Ability to formulate and maintain quality control objectives.
• Accuracy, attention to detail and ability to work well in a team environment.
• Familiarity with quality management system requirements (IATF 16949, ISO 14001, ISO 9000).

Nice to have

• More than 5 years of experience in quality control in semiconductor manufacturing, assembly and final test areas.
• Experience in process engineering, especially on QFN, DFN, SOIC and SOT packages.
• Hands-on skills in statistical database tools (e.g., JMP), 8D problem solving and constructing DoE.

Details

• Location: Gujarat (OSAT side), on-site.