Director, Global Supplier Quality

Role Overview

• Lead and scale the company’s Global Supplier Quality capability across a diverse, international supply base supporting advanced semiconductor probe card manufacturing.
• Establish consistent supplier quality governance, disciplined execution, and measurable performance across regions to prevent quality escapes, reduce variability, and support predictable manufacturing and customer outcomes.
• Own supplier quality strategy, operating rhythm, and performance management—ensuring suppliers worldwide meet FormFactor’s quality, compliance, and change control expectations while enabling business growth and supply continuity.
• Define and deploy FormFactor’s global supplier quality governance model, including standards, decision forums, escalation paths, and regional deployment.
• Ensure consistent application of supplier quality processes and expectations across regions and sites.
• Establish and review global supplier quality metrics, including escapes, SCAR performance, repeat issues, and risk trends, providing visibility to senior leadership.
• Facilitate regular supplier quality controls and data reviews with critical suppliers, leveraging SPC, control plans, audit results, and leading indicators.
• Ensure supplier data is used effectively to detect risk early and drive preventive actions.
• Lead supplier quality requirements for supplier selection and qualification globally, with particular focus on critical and high-risk suppliers.
• Serve as Change Control Board (CCB) lead for supplier initiated changes (process, material, equipment, capacity), ensuring disciplined risk assessment, approval, and validation.
• Ensure consistent re qualification and readiness following approved supplier changes.
• Drive rigor, consistency, and accountability in SCAR and 8D execution across the global supply base.
• Ensure root cause analyses address systemic issues and result in sustainable corrective actions.
• Track SCAR cycle time, effectiveness, and recurrence to continuously raise supplier performance.
• Lead global continuous improvement initiatives to reduce defects, variability, and recurring supplier issues.
• Promote prevention based supplier quality practices over inspection based containment.
• Partner with Strategic Sourcing on supplier development and long-term performance improvement plans.
• Serve as the global Quality interface to Supply Chain, Operations, Engineering, Customer Quality, and Strategic Sourcing on supplier quality matters.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Quality, or a related technical discipline.
• 12+ years of experience in Supplier Quality, Manufacturing Quality, or Quality Systems within semiconductor, electronics, or advanced manufacturing environments.
• 7+ years of people leadership experience, including managing managers or senior engineers in global or multi site organizations.
• Strong working knowledge of supplier audits, quality systems, manufacturing process controls, change control aligned with statistical-based qualification practices, corrective action processes, and structured problem solving.
• Proven experience managing global suppliers and complex, international supply chains.
• Strong executive communication skills and ability to influence across regions and functions.
• ASQ or equivalent quality certifications (CQE, CQA, Six Sigma).
• Experience in semiconductor manufacturing environments, including familiarity with precision electromechanical components and their associated manufacturing processes, quality controls and failure modes.
• Demonstrated success building or scaling global supplier quality organizations and operating models with quantifiable business impact.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• 401(k) matching
• Flexible working hours
• Paid time off
• Professional development opportunities