Manager, Core Technologies Supplier Quality Engineering

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. The people here at Apple don't just build products; they craft the kind of wonder that's revolutionized entire industries! It's the diversity of those people and their ideas that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do, from amazing technology to industry-leading environmental efforts. Join Apple, and help us leave the world better than we found it!

At Apple, Quality is one of the cornerstones of what makes our products and technologies great. Leading the team responsible for ensuring our customers receive the high quality and reliability they expect, in addition to enabling a design where quality is built in to scale large volumes at capable suppliers, is an incredibly challenging job requiring a broad array of technical and management skills. You will engage early in development to enable new technologies that go across Apple Products.

Responsibilities

• Identify and drive quality improvement opportunities in future products
• Lead process FMEAs on new technologies and manufacturing processes
• Lead technical failure analysis to support root cause analysis and issue resolution
• Generate product quality plan (PQP)
• Establish quality monitoring mechanism which generates meaningful metrics providing indication of outgoing quality at all nodes in the supply chain
• Develop/drive test correlation, metrology systems, sampling methods, cosmetics requirements
• Manage quality escalation and issues
• Develop capable suppliers that can be both technology and scaling partners
• International travel is required (up to 25%)

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of people management experience
• 10+ years of industry experience in one or more of the following areas: product development, enclosures, castings, plastic parts, glass parts, injection molding, tooling, jigs, fixtures, or high-volume quality manufacturing engineering (e.g., Automotive, Consumer Electronics, Medical Devices, etc.)
• BS in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering or equivalent

Preferred Qualifications

• MS/MBA in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering or equivalent
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English. Mandarin language skills are a plus but not required
• Finance/business acumen (understand cost drivers and derive costs associated with managing quality)
• Reliability methods and quality sampling methodologies
• Third party production quality & process management experience
• Experience working with customers
• Project management experience

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.

Apple accepts applications to this posting on an ongoing basis.