Senior Manager Supplier Quality Management

Senior Manager – SQM

Job Location: The position will be filled within our Vishay offices in Newport, UK.

What You Will Be Doing

• Designing, maintaining and improving supplier related quality requirements, specifications and concepts.
• Audit suppliers using a VDA6.3 framework.
• Evaluating and approving suppliers and negotiating and agreeing on product or service requirements and specifications, or subsequent quality assurance processes for implementation.
• Planning and executing technical supplier audits including follow-up of audit measures.
• Driving supplier's continuous improvement and collaborating in supplier development programs.
• Implementing complaints management to detect non-conformances at an early stage.
• Deputise for Quality Director as required, covering QMS and Customer Support.
• Process Fab and/or Semiconductor knowledge highly desirable.

What You Will Bring Along

• At least 10 years’ experience at senior level in an advanced quality engineering environment.
• Engineering knowledge from an advanced sector, semiconductor, automotive, aerospace or medical.
• Educated to degree level or equivalent.
• Knowledge and practical experience of quality tools including APQP, FMEA, 5S, 8D, MSA, and SPC.
• Ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams, when required.
• Supplier facing experience and competency.
• IT literate in Word, PPT, Excel, and other QMS systems.
• System and process thinker.
• Willingness to travel with UK/Europe and internationally.
• Deep semiconductor process technology knowledge.
• IATF lead auditor.

What Can We Offer You For Your Talent

Vishay offers a comprehensive suite of benefit programs including health care coverage, financial support programs and other resources designed to help you achieve your personal and professional goals. With us, you’ll experience unique career paths, an open and collaborative culture, a stable business that will be there for you, and opportunities to work globally and locally.

Vishay committed to a workplace free of harassment and unlawful discrimination. We do not engage in discrimination or harassment based on race, color, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity or national origin, disability, pregnancy, religion, political affiliation, union membership, covered veteran status, protected genetic information or marital status in hiring and employment practices.

It is the policy of Vishay to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all colleagues and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, gender, pregnancy/childbirth, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability or perceived disability, genetic information, citizenship, veteran or military status or a person’s relationship or association with a protected veteran, including spouses and other family members, marital or domestic partner status, or any other category protected by federal, state and/or local laws.

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