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With a wide variety of people, global locations, technologies and products, 3M is a place where you can collaborate with other curious, creative 3Mers.\nThis position provides an opportunity to transition from other private, public, government or military experience to a 3M career.\nThe Impact You’ll Make in this Role\nThe Sub-Platform Quality Manager, provides strategic leadership and organizational direction for quality across semiconductor product development, manufacturing, suppliers, and customers. This role owns the enterprise quality strategy and ensures that quality, reliability, and customer requirements are embedded throughout the complete product lifecycle-from new product introduction and design qualification through high-volume manufacturing, field performance, and end-of-life.\nThe position is responsible for establishing and deploying a scalable Quality Management System (QMS) across multiple manufacturing sites and functions, while driving measurable improvements in customer satisfaction, product reliability, manufacturing yield, supplier performance, and cost of poor quality.\nThe Sub-Platform Quality Manager serves as a partner to Operations, Engineering, Product Development, Supply Chain, Procurement, Sales, and Executive Leadership. The role requires strong technical depth in semiconductor quality combined with the ability to influence across organizational boundaries, establish accountability, and translate quality performance into business results.\nAs a Sub-Platform Quality Manager, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative people around the world. Here, you will make an impact by:\n1. Enterprise Quality Strategy & Leadership\nDevelop and execute the company's global quality strategy in alignment with business objectives, technology roadmaps, and customer expectations.\nEstablish quality objectives, policies, standards, and performance targets across multiple product centers and manufacturing locations.\nProvide executive-level visibility into quality risks, performance, trends, and improvement priorities.\nEstablish a consistent quality operating model across sites while allowing appropriate flexibility for local requirements.\nDrive a culture of quality ownership, prevention, accountability, and continuous improvement.\nServe as the senior quality voice in strategic business, product, manufacturing, and customer decisions.\nPartner with executive leadership to identify and mitigate quality risks that could affect revenue, product launches, customer relationships, or business continuity.\n2. New Product Introduction (NPI) & Product Quality\nEstablish quality strategy and requirements from product concept through commercialization and production ramp.\nProvide quality leadership for NPI, including design reviews, risk assessments, qualification, validation, and production readiness.\nEnsure robust implementation of APQP or equivalent product-quality planning processes where applicable.\nEstablish requirements for DFMEA, PFMEA, Control Plans, MSA, SPC, capability analysis, and other preventive quality methodologies.\nEnsure product and process risks are identified, quantified, mitigated, and formally accepted before production release.\nPartner with R&D and Product Engineering to establish reliability and qualification strategies for new semiconductor products.\nDefine quality gates and launch criteria for new products and manufacturing processes.\nEstablish mechanisms to capture lessons learned and incorporate them into future product and process development.\nProvide executive escalation and decision support for significant launch-quality risks.\n3. Multi-Site Manufacturing Quality\nProvide strategic quality leadership across multiple manufacturing facilities, internal operations, and outsourced manufacturing partners.\nEstablish common quality standards, metrics, processes, and governance across sites.\nDrive consistency in manufacturing quality, process capability, yield, inspection, testing, and defect-management practices.\nEstablish site-level quality objectives and hold leadership teams accountable for performance.\nMonitor manufacturing quality trends and identify systemic issues that require enterprise-level action.\nLead cross-site initiatives to improve yield, reduce variation, eliminate recurring defects, and lower Cost of Poor Quality.\nEstablish escalation mechanisms for critical manufacturing and product-quality issues.\nPromote replication of successful quality practices across manufacturing locations.\n4. Supplier Quality Management\nEstablish the strategic supplier quality program for critical semiconductor materials, components, wafers, assembly, packaging, testing, and other external processes.\nDefine supplier qualification, development, monitoring, and escalation strategies based on product and process risk.\nEstablish supplier quality KPIs and performance expectations.\nLead executive-level engagement with strategic suppliers when significant quality or reliability issues arise.\nEnsure effective supplier corrective action, containment, root-cause analysis, and preventive action.\nPartner with Procurement and Supply Chain to incorporate quality, reliability, and risk into supplier selection and sourcing decisions.\nDevelop risk-based supplier audit and surveillance programs.\nEstablish mechanisms to identify systemic supplier risks before they affect production or customers.\nDrive supplier capability improvement and long-term defect prevention.\n5. Customer Quality & Strategic Customer Relationships\nServe as the senior quality escalation point for key customers and strategic accounts.\nEstablish customer-quality strategies aligned with customer-specific requirements and business priorities.\nLead resolution of major customer complaints, quality incidents, product returns, and field issues.\nEnsure timely and technically rigorous 8D, root-cause, containment, corrective-action, and effectiveness-verification processes.\nEstablish executive-level communication protocols for significant customer quality events.\nSupport customer audits, quality reviews, product qualifications, and supplier assessments.\nPartner with Sales and Account Management to understand customer quality expectations and emerging risks.\nMonitor customer quality trends and convert feedback into systemic product and process improvements.\nBuild customer confidence through transparent communication, robust corrective action, and demonstrated prevention.\n6. Reliability Engineering & Product Qualification\nEstablish the company's semiconductor product reliability strategy in partnership with Engineering and Product Development.\nDefine reliability qualification requirements, methodologies, and acceptance criteria based on product technology and application.\nOversee reliability qualification, life testing, accelerated testing, failure analysis, and field-performance monitoring.\nEnsure appropriate reliability modeling and risk assessment are incorporated into product development.\nEstablish processes for managing reliability excursions and field failures.\nPartner with Design, Process, Packaging, Test, and Failure Analysis organizations to identify and eliminate reliability risks.\nMonitor field-return and reliability data to identify emerging trends.\nEnsure lessons from reliability failures are incorporated into product design and manufacturing controls.\nMaintain awareness of applicable industry standards and customer-specific reliability requirements.\n7. Quality Management System & Governance\nOwn the strategic direction and effectiveness of the global Quality Management System.\nEstablish QMS governance across multiple manufacturing sites and organizational functions.\nEnsure compliance with applicable quality standards, customer requirements, regulatory requirements, and industry expectations.\nLead management-review processes and establish executive visibility into QMS performance.\nEstablish a risk-based internal audit strategy.\nOversee corrective and preventive action systems and ensure systemic effectiveness rather than administrative closure.\nDrive standardization of quality processes, documentation, records, and controls across sites.\nIdentify opportunities to simplify and strengthen the QMS while maintaining appropriate control.\nEnsure quality-system changes support business growth, new technologies, acquisitions, and manufacturing expansion.\n8. Quality Risk Management\nEstablish an enterprise-wide framework for identifying, assessing, mitigating, and monitoring product and process quality risks.\nEnsure quality risks are incorporated into business continuity, product development, supplier management, and manufacturing decisions.\nEstablish escalation criteria for critical product, supplier, manufacturing, and customer risks.\nProvide executive leadership with clear assessments of quality risk, business impact, and mitigation status.\nLead cross-functional risk reviews for critical products, processes, suppliers, and manufacturing sites.\nEnsure high-risk issues receive appropriate resources and executive attention.\n9. Continuous Improvement & Operational Excellence\nEstablish a company-wide quality improvement roadmap focused on defect prevention and business impact.\nDrive Six Sigma, Lean, statistical process control, and structured problem-solving methodologies.\nIdentify opportunities for automation, data analytics, predictive quality, and advanced process monitoring.\nEnsure improvement projects have measurable financial and quality outcomes.\nPromote replication of successful improvement programs across sites.\n10. Quality Data, Analytics & Digital Transformation\nEstablish a global quality-data strategy that enables timely, fact-based decision making.\nDevelop standardized quality dashboards and executive KPIs across manufacturing sites.\nIntegrate customer, supplier, manufacturing, reliability, and field-quality data to identify systemic trends.\nPromote advanced statistical analysis and predictive quality methodologies.\nLeverage digital quality systems, automated reporting, analytics, and data visualization to improve responsiveness.\nEstablish data governance and consistent definitions for enterprise quality metrics.\nYour Skills and Expertise\nTo set you up for success in this role from day one, 3M requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:\nBachelor's degree in Engineering, Quality, Materials Science, Manufacturing, or a related technical field.\nFive (5) years of progressive quality, engineering, manufacturing, or reliability experience in private, public, government or military environment\nTwo (2) years of experience in semiconductor, microelectronics, electronics or advanced manufacturing in private, public, government or military environment\nOne (1) year of experience in Quality Leadership or Management role in private, public, government or military environment preferably with multi-site or global responsibility.\nAdditional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:\nMaster's degree in engineering, Quality, Business, or a related discipline.\nOne (1) year of experience in Quality Leadership or Management role preferably with multi-site or global responsibility.in private, public, government or military environment\nASQ CQE, CMQ/OE, or equivalent professional certification.\nDemonstrated experience leading NPI/product quality programs.\nStrong experience with supplier quality and/or customer quality management.\nStrong understanding of semiconductor manufacturing, assembly, packaging, testing, or related 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