Position Summary
Responsible for the selection, qualification, application, failure analysis and documentation management of components, materials and chemicals together with their supplier evaluation.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Classify, characterize company-used components, parts, materials and chemicals, and organize and manage them as an integral material library.
- Create component & material selection and qualification guidelines, standardize testing methods, devise the test plates for common screening and qualification testing.
- Support on materials-related subjects such as datasheet interpretation, alternative proposal, application advising, failure analysis, storage and handling, etc.
- Support efforts for cost reduction and component alternatives, and address engineering questions (EQ) from suppliers to ensure quality, performance and compliance standards are met.
- Exploit emerging technology, industry advances and new components, and develop their application scenarios for adoption by new product development.
- Review product designs to ensure robust and reliable design-in of components and materials both technically and commercially such as lifecycle state, regulation & compliance requirements (e.g. RoHS, REACH, UL, etc.) and supply assurance.
- Lead the root cause analysis of component failures, identify the failure mechanism, and derive countermeasures
- Identify critical and high-risk components in products, develop necessary mitigation plans, and lead reliability and quality test.
- Evaluate supplier technical competency, and conduct supplier search or selection for key components, visit to audit suppliers if required.
- Standardize various technical documents (test plan, reports, guidelines, etc.), craft documentation templates, and optimize the corresponding rules and processes.