About the position
At DuPont, our purpose is to empower the world with essential innovations to thrive. We work on things that matter. Whether it’s providing clean water to more than a billion people on the planet, producing materials that are essential in everyday technology devices from smartphones to electric vehicles, or protecting workers around the world. Discover the many reasons the world’s most talented people are choosing to work at DuPont. DuPont E&I, Semiconductor Technologies business, has an exciting and challenging opportunity for a Senior Product Quality Engineering (PQE) in the Chemical Mechanical Planarization Technology (CMPT) organization. This role will have responsibility for the quality and improvement of the pad product lines manufactured in Newark location. In this strategic and high visibility role, you will interface with functional and business leaders across the CMPT organization to help set and execute the improvement strategies necessary for the next phase of business success. This position will report to the CMPT Pad Product Engineering Leader.
Responsibilities
- Act as the technical product manager for the assigned product portfolio.
- Assess non-conforming products.
- Work with various teams (manufacturing, applications engineering) to decide fit for use for the non-conforming material.
- Analyze process and production data to identify product consistency improvement opportunities.
- Initiate the improvement opportunities / drive for prioritization of the improvement opportunities with manufacturing.
- Be the steward for change management for the assigned product portfolio.
- Work with change owners (manufacturing, supplier quality, etc) to assess the impact of proposed changes and drive towards risk mitigation.
- Work with customer facing teams to communicate appropriately through technical whitepapers.
- Participate in routing SPC reviews and control plan / FMEA (Failure Mode Effects Analysis) updates.
- Enable new product introductions with the highest technical quality by partnering with product development group on the stage gate methodology.
Requirements
- Bachelors degree in Chemical Engineering, Material Science or similar field.
- 10+ years of experience in manufacturing OR support functions.
- Hands-on experience with statistical process control methods and design of experiments (6 Sigma Green belt).
- Experience in external (customer or supplier) communication: ensuring external communications are aligned on common goals and understandings.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience/knowledge with semiconductor industry.
- Advanced degree (Masters OR PhD) in Chemical Engineering, Material Science or similar field.
- Experience as a team leader OR as a Six Sigma project leader.
- Able to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
- Ability to communicate across cultures and language barriers.
- Hands of experience with advanced analytical (physical and chemical) characterization techniques.
- Ability to make good engineering judgments independently is required.
- Demonstrated communication skills toward external senior stakeholders and to high level leaders.
Benefits
- Comprehensive pay and benefits package.
