Supplier Quality Leader

WHY DO WE NEED YOU?

This role will have technical ownership of key raw materials supplier performance and balance the technical and commercial aspects with Suppliers to drive continuous improvement and variation reduction while meeting semiconductor industry quality standards. This role will also partner with commercial, plant quality and process teams to improve understanding of raw material interactions and process impacts to reduce the Total Cost of Ownership and improve sustainability.

Essential Functions:

1. Manage key raw material quality, grading, and segregation. Proactively monitor SPC trend reviews for raw materials and report out findings and corrective actions. Drive continuous improvement for assigned key raw materials and suppliers, including use of scorecard and audit tools.
2. Serve as a technical owner for supplier changes as it impacts raw material ownership. Drive supplier corrective actions through the SCAR (Supplier Corrective Action Request) process. Own key supplier audits, technical problem-solving initiatives, including customer complaints and excursion investigations that intersect with raw material properties.
3. Work closely with purchasing teams to develop Business Continuity Plans (BCP), qualifying new materials, Suppliers, or Sub-suppliers and rationalizing as needed. Partner with technical and commercial teams to define critical raw material specifications and communicate them to suppliers for agreement and compliance and align with company wide sourcing and sustainability priorities.
4. Collaborate with development teams on high quality and cost-effective material solutions for the next generation of products. Collaborate with suppliers on material design, scaling up, supplier process, and raw material/ product data analysis.
5. Up to 25% travel (domestic and occasional international travel).

Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering, Materials/ Polymer Science, or equivalent is required.

Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering, Materials/ Polymer Science, or equivalent is preferred.

Six-Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt or equivalent and experience in manufacturing of specialty chemicals, semiconductors, life sciences is required.

Statistical tools (Minitab or equivalent) is required.

Raw material quality and/or technical supplier ownership in manufacturing of specialty chemicals, semiconductors, life sciences is preferred.

Certain locations require pay information be provided in job postings. Saint-Gobain aims to deliver a comprehensive Total Rewards package to support our employees’ wellbeing and help improve daily life for themselves and their families. We believe in the importance of pay transparency in what we offer potential candidates. Provided is the national pay range for this position which is $85,200 to $131,900 per year. However, the base pay offered may vary depending on geographic region, internal equity, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors.

In addition to base salary, this position is eligible for an annual bonus. The targeted bonus amount is 12% of base salary based on company and individual performance measures. The Total Target Cash range (base pay and annual bonus) for this position, is $95,400 to $147,700. Bonus payments are part of variable compensation and by nature can vary based on company and individual performance and is not a guarantee.

Saint-Gobain provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. Saint-Gobain is an equal opportunity employer of individuals with disabilities and supports the hiring of veterans.

Saint-Gobain Surface Conditioning serves a multitude of high end markets, with more than 50% of its sales in the electronics industry, and in particular for the semiconductor market. We are making one of the essential products necessary in the production of semiconductor chips and Hard Disk Drive, whose growth is driven by ever increasing demand on cloud storage, IoT and EV, supporting our purpose of Making the World a Better Home.