Job Description:
Sub-Platform Quality Manager - Semiconductor
Collaborate with Innovative 3Mers Around the World
Choosing where to start and grow your career has a major impact on your professional and personal life, so it’s equally important you know that the company that you choose to work at, and its leaders, will support and guide you. With a wide variety of people, global locations, technologies and products, 3M is a place where you can collaborate with other curious, creative 3Mers.
This position provides an opportunity to transition from other private, public, government or military experience to a 3M career.
The Impact You’ll Make in this Role
The Sub-Platform Quality Manager, provides strategic leadership and organizational direction for quality across semiconductor product development, manufacturing, suppliers, and customers. This role owns the enterprise quality strategy and ensures that quality, reliability, and customer requirements are embedded throughout the complete product lifecycle—from new product introduction and design qualification through high-volume manufacturing, field performance, and end-of-life.
The position is responsible for establishing and deploying a scalable Quality Management System (QMS) across multiple manufacturing sites and functions, while driving measurable improvements in customer satisfaction, product reliability, manufacturing yield, supplier performance, and cost of poor quality.
The Sub-Platform Quality Manager serves as a partner to Operations, Engineering, Product Development, Supply Chain, Procurement, Sales, and Executive Leadership. The role requires strong technical depth in semiconductor quality combined with the ability to influence across organizational boundaries, establish accountability, and translate quality performance into business results.
As a Sub-Platform Quality Manager, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative people around the world. Here, you will make an impact by:
1. Enterprise Quality Strategy & Leadership
Develop and execute the company's global quality strategy in alignment with business objectives, technology roadmaps, and customer expectations.
Establish quality objectives, policies, standards, and performance targets across multiple product centers and manufacturing locations.
Provide executive-level visibility into quality risks, performance, trends, and improvement priorities.
Establish a consistent quality operating model across sites while allowing appropriate flexibility for local requirements.
Drive a culture of quality ownership, prevention, accountability, and continuous improvement.
Serve as the senior quality voice in strategic business, product, manufacturing, and customer decisions.
Partner with executive leadership to identify and mitigate quality risks that could affect revenue, product launches, customer relationships, or business continuity.
2. New Product Introduction (NPI) & Product Quality
Establish quality strategy and requirements from product concept through commercialization and production ramp.
Provide quality leadership for NPI, including design reviews, risk assessments, qualification, validation, and production readiness.
Ensure robust implementation of APQP or equivalent product-quality planning processes where applicable.
Establish requirements for DFMEA, PFMEA, Control Plans, MSA, SPC, capability analysis, and other preventive quality methodologies.
Ensure product and process risks are identified, quantified, mitigated, and formally accepted before production release.
Partner with R&D and Product Engineering to establish reliability and qualification strategies for new semiconductor products.
Define quality gates and launch criteria for new products and manufacturing processes.
Establish mechanisms to capture lessons learned and incorporate them into future product and process development.
Provide executive escalation and decision support for significant…