Our client is a leading international high-tech company operating in the semiconductor industry, with a strong focus on innovation, advanced manufacturing and quality excellence.

Responsabilities:

• Drive and promote a strong quality culture across the IC Front-End manufacturing organization, in close collaboration with the Quality function, with a strong focus on zero-defect objectives and compliance with applicable automotive and customer requirements.
• Ensure compliance with relevant quality standards, particularly IATF 16949, and lead quality task forces, alerts and critical manufacturing quality topics.
• Lead the process change management framework, ensuring that manufacturing changes are properly assessed, documented and implemented while minimizing risks to production performance, supply chain continuity and customer satisfaction.
• Drive the deployment and effective use of process control methodologies and quality tools, including MSA, SPC, automated monitoring, data analysis and manufacturing execution systems, with the objective of reducing non-conformities, scrap and process variation.
• Lead non-conformance management and ensure timely risk assessment, containment and disposition of quality events, while driving root-cause analysis and sustainable corrective actions.
• Drive scrap analysis and continuous improvement initiatives in collaboration with manufacturing and process owners, ensuring effective problem solving and prevention of recurring issues.
• Lead manufacturing audit activities, coordinate the resolution of findings and ensure that major non-conformities are addressed at both process and system level.
• Coordinate the resolution of customer complaints related to Front-End manufacturing, ensuring appropriate risk assessment, root-cause analysis, corrective actions and prevention of recurrence.
• Analyse quality performance and identify opportunities for continuous improvement, leading cross-functional projects and teams to improve manufacturing quality, yield and operational performance.
• Report quality performance, risks, audit findings and improvement actions to management and key internal stakeholders.

Profile:

• Engineering degree in Electronics, Microelectronics, Physics or a related technical field.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in a high-tech industrial environment, including at least 5 years in a Quality Management role.
• Strong experience in semiconductor or IC manufacturing, with a good understanding of Front-End production processes, quality tools, process development, failure analysis and manufacturing audits.
• Solid knowledge of quality management systems and industry standards, particularly ISO 9001, IATF 16949 and automotive core tools.
• Proven experience in Project Management, Continuous Improvement and cross-functional team leadership.
• Six Sigma Black Belt and/or Lean experience is highly valued.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a structured, proactive and results-oriented approach.
• Ability to lead complex quality and continuous improvement initiatives in a multicultural and international environment.
• Excellent communication, collaboration and stakeholder management skills, with strong customer orientation.
• Fluent in both French and English, written and spoken.