Senior Staff Engineer Local Change Management

Join our Quality and Change Management organization as a Senior Staff Engineer Local Change Management and play a critical role in safeguarding product quality, process integrity, and customer satisfaction throughout change implementation and equipment qualification activities. In this role, you will act as the quality gatekeeper for Material, Machine, Method, and Milieu (4M) changes, ensuring that all qualification and release activities are executed in accordance with business processes, industry standards, and customer requirements.

Your role
Key responsibilities in your new role

• Drive and ensure compliance of change management and equipment qualification projects with defined quality standards, business processes, and customer requirements to enable successful product release without deviations.
• Lead and facilitate Process Change Review Boards (PCRB) and Equipment Review Boards (ERB), ensuring robust project governance, milestone readiness, and continuous process effectiveness improvements.
• Act as the Local Process Expert (LPE) and primary interface for Development, Operations, Quality, and Project teams on all Change Management and Equipment Qualification-related topics.
• Support change assessments involving Materials, Equipment, Processes, and Site Relocation activities, including risk assessments, FMEA execution, and qualification planning.
• Define, coordinate, and monitor qualification requirements including Qualification Test Plans (QTP), REALIS reliability qualification plans, and change validation activities.
• Serve as checker and releaser for change qualification documentation within system tools, ensuring full compliance with quality requirements and business processes.
• Define and verify Safe Launch Control measures and ensure successful implementation prior to change project closure and production release.
• Act as the Quality Owner throughout the lifecycle of change projects, driving timely qualification, milestone achievement, First Time Right execution, and production readiness.
• Monitor process compliance and maintain audit readiness to support successful IATF 16949, customer, and internal quality audits with a target of zero major findings.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to strengthen change management effectiveness, process governance, quality performance, and operational excellence.

Your profile
Qualifications and skills to help you succeed 

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Applied Science, Quality Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Semiconductor Technology, or a related technical discipline.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in the semiconductor manufacturing industry, preferably in Quality Engineering, Process Engineering, Change Management, Equipment Qualification, or New Product Introduction (NPI).
• Strong working knowledge of quality methodologies and tools, including FMEA, Control Plans, Statistical Process Control (SPC), 8D Problem Solving, Root Cause Analysis, and risk management approaches.
• Experience managing qualification projects, process changes, equipment releases, or technology transfer activities within manufacturing environments.
• Strong analytical, decision-making, and problem-solving skills with the ability to assess technical and quality risks effectively.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to work independently and influence cross-functional teams.

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