Senior Global Supplier Quality Manager

Enphase Energy is a global energy technology company and leading provider of solar, battery, and electric vehicle charging products. Founded in 2006, Enphase transformed the solar industry with our revolutionary microinverter technology, which turns sunlight into a safe, reliable, resilient, and scalable source of energy to power our lives. Today, the Enphase Energy System helps people make, use, save, and sell their own power. Enphase is also one of the fastest growing and innovative clean energy companies in the world, with approximately 68 million products installed across more than 145 countries.     

 

We are building teams that design, develop, and manufacture next-generation energy technologies and our work environment is fast-paced, fun and full of exciting new projects.        

 

If you are passionate about advancing a more sustainable future, this is the perfect time to join Enphase!  

 

About the role:     
The successful candidate will be serving as a quality manager responsible for ensuring that the supply chain and contract manufacturing companies develop their process in line with Enphase procedures and verify their systems to ensure they are compliant with Enphase policies. Proven leader in operations/quality management. Responsible for delivering all aspects of the Quality function across global contract manufacturers and suppliers on an on-going basis in line with the Quality Management System to ensure that the business’ products and services meet customer expectations. Responsible for ensuring that suppliers continue to develop and implement best practices that emphasize continuous improvements and continue to meet quality standards required to minimize quality costs and maximize customer satisfaction whilst ensuring that procedures and processes are adhered to. 

 

What you will do: 
•    Oversee the quality of all manufacturing for existing / new products across our contract manufacturers
•    Lead team of Quality Engineers globally and report to Director of Quality
•    Develop quality vision, strategy, policies, processes and procedures

Best in class Quality practices at CMs and Suppliers
•    Lead global cross functional problem-solving task forces for factory, supplier or field issues
•    Issue internal CARs or SCARs to ensure 8D problem solving is applied to quality issues affecting production
•    Lead weekly quality meetings to ensure the CM is driving quality defect reduction in-process at each step utilizing pareto analysis, root cause analysis, and corrective actions.
•    Ensure compliance and assist with adherence to the Quality Management System (TS16949/ISO9001)
•    Ensure end to end quality procedures for raw materials, through manufacturing, testing, and shipment.
•    Ensure that the production process has built in reactions to “stop the line” per the outlined criteria.  Oversee the process to ensure that lot scoping, containment, and/or “stop ship” is executed, if necessary, per each occurrence.
•    Implement standardized quality methodologies across sites/vendors
•    Promote the use of techniques for continuous improvement such as Lean, Six-Sigma
•    Develop a cross-site quality dashboard to ensure standardized processes
•    Provide quality reports including KPIs to executives weekly

Manage NPI Quality
•    Oversee NPI through product release in the factory 
•    Utilize the Stage Gate criteria to drive and report achievement of the quality metrics (PPAP, FAI, etc)

Lead Supplier development activity
•    Support Purchasing with the supplier approval process & participate in the stage gate review of new projects
•    Lead supplier development strategy, designing metrics for the function and supplier performance
•    Responsible for supplier audits, PPAP & Advance product quality planning (APQP) as needed
•    Ensure proper tool buy off processes are implemented and executed (CER, Cpk, trial run etc)
•    Evaluate supplier quality data to identify process improvement opportunities within the supply chain 
•    Manage the changes with suppliers through changing management process

 

Who you are and what you bring: 
•    BS/MS in Engineering (Electrical/ Electronics/Industrial/Mechanical)
•    15 years’ experience in Quality
•    Experience in Automotive Quality
•    Proven leadership abilities to deep dive into details and be hands on
•    Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills 
•    Competence in problem solving, team building, planning and decision making
•    Significant experience in a high-volume manufacturing environment (preferably automotive) in Quality 
•    Six Sigma/Lean skills, implementation knowledge on continuous improvement
•    Experienced in dealing with customers and suppliers

 

The base salary range for this position is $130,000 to $183,000. This salary range may be modified in the future. The successful candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, education or training, work location, and market conditions. This position is also eligible for bonuses, equity, and benefits.