Quality Manager

Key Responsibilities

Manages QMS and ensures compliance to requirements through internal audits, external certification ISO standards and sourcing audits via Applied's SSQA process

Develop, applies, revises, and maintains quality standards for processing materials into partially finished or finished products. Designs and implements methods and procedures for testing and inspecting the quality level of products and equipment.

Identify systemic issues and drive continuous improvement across the assigned business unit.

Identify systemic issues and drive continuous improvement across the assigned business unit. Success in this role will be measured against business unit customer satisfaction indices and customer quality indices.

Drives enterprise wide change management to ensure proper alignment across regional business units and global factories in order to minimize quality issues and improve customer satisfaction.

Interacts with customers and functional managers and engineers in product development, design, test, marketing, sales, planning, manufacturing, etc. These interactions often are with regard to potential, real or perceived customer quality or reliability concerns arising from technical, administrative or logistical events.

Interfaces with customers, vendors, and various company departments to resolve quality problems and provide information.

Coaches, mentors and conducts training for targeted organizations on quality processes. Reduces qualification cycle time and cost while still meeting reliability performance requirements.

Functional Knowledge

• Regarded as the technical expert in their particular field
• Demonstrates in-depth and/or breadth of expertise in own discipline and broad knowledge of other disciplines within the function

Business Expertise

• Anticipates business and regulatory issues; recommends product, process or service improvements

Leadership

• Leads projects with notable risk and complexity; develops the strategy for project execution

Problem Solving

• Solves unique and complex problems with broad impact on the business; requires conceptual and innovative thinking to develop solutions

Impact

• Impacts the direction and resource allocation for program, project or services; works within general functional policies and industry guidelines

Interpersonal Skills

• Communicates complex ideas, anticipates potential objections and persuades others, often at senior levels, to adopt a different point of view

## Qualifications

### Education:

Bachelor's Degree

### Skills

### Certifications:

### Languages:

### Years of Experience:

10 - 15 Years

### Work Experience:

## Additional Information

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### Shift:

10-Day 8-Hr (United States of America)

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### Travel:

Yes, 10% of the Time

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### Relocation Eligible:

Yes

### Referral Payment Plan:

Employee Referral (Standard)

U.S. Salary Range:

$154,000.00 - $212,000.00

The salary offered to a selected candidate will be based on multiple factors including location, hire grade, job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and with consideration of internal equity of our current team members. In addition to a comprehensive benefits package, candidates may be eligible for other forms of compensation such as participation in a bonus and a stock award program, as applicable.

For all sales roles, the posted salary range is the Target Total Cash (TTC) range for the role, which is the sum of base salary and target bonus amount at 100% goal achievement.

Applied Materials is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law.