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The Group You ll Be A Part Of This position will be in the Supplier Engineering and Technology group (SET), within Lam India Global supply chain operations group, working as a Supplier QA Engineer, Staff with a variety of suppliers in the vacuum technology space, in partnership with many Product Groups within the company. This offers a unique opportunity to have visibility across the whole spectrum of what Lam makes, develop relationships across the company and with a variety of suppliers, work both with C&F teams for New Product introduction as well as maintaining our existing tools and designs The Impact You ll Make As a Supplier Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer at Lam, youll make an impact in ensuring suppliers manufacturing processes and products meet quality standards by designing, implementing, and maintaining quality assurance programs. You design methods for inspecting, testing, and evaluating production processes and finished products onsite at our global suppliers locations. By analyzing production data, you identify trends and partner with the supplier to resolve technical, quality and production challenges. Your expertise will help develop excellence in supplier product inputs supporting Lams commitment to delivering high-quality and reliable products. In this role, you will directly contribute to develop (in partnership with Lams C&F teams and suppliers) new designs in vacuum systems, from advanced valve designs, including novel heated products to manage hard-to-solve particles and sealing problems, actuators and bellows, metrology such as precision manometers, pumping, etc. Our Complex OEM team works in a wide variety of high technology fields, and this position offers an opportunity to collaborate across our group and the company on many interesting fields. What You ll Do Apply skills and experience with semiconductor manufacturing and equipment, focused on vacuum technology, to technical and quality problems encountered in the product life cycle with special attention to new product introduction Accountable for the quality and timeliness of supplier engineering tasks and projects and be a point of contact for the assigned OEM suppliers. Travel to Lam s suppliers manufacturing locations to conduct effective situation assessments, audits and investigations and apply findings to implement systematic and lasting improvements to product and process Perform Program/Project and Supplier Management roles with emphasis on problem-solving analysis and improvements in manufacturing and test processes. Definition, review and improvement of Supplier s Root Cause & Corrective Action (RCCA), Supplier s Quality Systems and Processes of Record (POR) Act as a technical liaison between OEM Suppliers, Product group, Product development and customer front-end teams to ensure speed and fast issue resolution and ensure customer satisfaction. Apply experience with industrial Quality Systems, Engineering Design & Documentation, Product Qualification, Change (EC) Processes and Problem Solving to issues occurring in product and component life cycles. Who We re Looking For Exceptional analytical and experimental design skills. Creative thinking, structured problem solving, and troubleshooting capabilities Proven ability to handle critical and safety-related quality escalations with cross-functional teams includes Product group (PG), NPI (New Product Introduction), Field Service Engineers (FSE), Accounts Team (AT), Global Product Services (GPS), Global Quality and customers. Ability and expertise in Failure Analysis (FA) /8D process, 5-whys, FMEA, Design-for-Reliability, Weibull analyses, etc., to solve our most complex problems in the most efficient way Ability to understand modeling from suppliers, notably thermal & flow modeling Provide Design for Manufacturability (DFM) and Design for Assembly (DFA) feedback to optimize supplier manufacturing processes and reduce Quality, Cost and delivery issues. Strong business effective communication and presentation skill to various levels of the company, and to suppliers during onsite/virtual audits, Interactions and discussions. Minimum Qualification Bachelor s degree with 12+ years of experience or Master s with 8+ years of experience or PhD with 5+ years experience in Mechanical, Aerospace, Automobile, Metallurgical, Production, System Engineering, or related fields . Preferred Qualifications Prior product design and technical engineer experience in vacuum systems is beneficial. Experience in quality and reliability systems in semiconductor, automotive, aerospace, or related hardware, tools, and equipment is a plus. Experience leading cross-functional teams and project management. Knowledge in six sigma (DMAIC approach), SPC tools and usage of Minitab, JMP
