Principal Quality Engineering Manager

Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft's expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft's "Intelligent Cloud" mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Teams, OneDrive, and the Microsoft Azure platform globally with our server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide and we are looking for passionate, high-energy engineers to help achieve that mission.

As Microsoft's cloud business continues to grow the ability to deploy new offerings and hardware infrastructure on time, in high volume with high quality and lowest cost is of paramount importance. To achieve this goal, the Hardware, Infrastructure Management, and Fundamentals Engineering (HIFE) team is instrumental in defining and delivering operational measures of success for hardware manufacturing, improving the planning process, quality, delivery, scale and sustainability related to Microsoft cloud hardware. We are looking for seasoned engineers with a dedicated passion for customer focused solutions, insight and industry knowledge to envision and implement future technical solutions that will manage and optimize the Cloud infrastructure.

We are looking for a Principal Supplier Quality and Operations Engineering Manager.

Responsibilities
As a Supplier Quality and Operations Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of engineers responsible for supplier qualifications, product transfers, and continuous supplier operations excellence to deliver the products on time with highest quality for Microsoft. You will collaborate with internal counterparts and suppliers worldwide. You will be responsible for ensuring initial and continuous quality and operations performance by monitoring, auditing, and improving processes as well as resolving any technical and operational issues by leveraging formal quality processes and techniques. You will also be responsible for effectively communicating your team's deliverables to wide audiences and influencing other teams to achieve quality goals.

• Supplier Management: Lead a professional team to manage product qualifications through quality phase-gate deliverables. Qualify new manufacturing suppliers, new sites, new lines, enable new capabilities and processes. And continuously monitor, audit, and drive improvements.
• Quality Risk Management: Effectively manage quality risks by containing, mitigating, and resolving top-quality issues affecting global data centers.
• Shift left management: Establish and maintain a close loop quality feedback mechanism in order to capture lessons learned and then push to early development phase to intercept issues.
• Supplier Quality Strategy: Develop and implement a robust supplier quality management strategy to ensure the highest quality standards in data center hardware manufacturing.
• Continuous Supply: Collaborate with the supply chain team to establish and maintain the best supplier quality management strategy for continuous supply and support increased capacity and improvements.

Qualifications
Required:

• Doctorate Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience OR Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field AND 7+ years technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience.
• Strong leadership in team build up and management. Minimum of 5 years team manager role.
• Minimum of 5 years of direct engineering experience in PCBA hardware and electronic component issue solving.
• Minimum of 5 years of work experience in managing manufacturing quality in the electronic industry.
• Strong leadership skills and ability to collaborate with diverse teams and drive a call to action.
• Deep understanding of root cause analysis and corrective action methods to identify contributing factors of production defects.
• Ability to analyze large data sets, extract key insights, and effectively present and communicate the results.
• Strong communication and project management skills.

Preferred

• Master's degree in Electronics (preferred).
• 10+ years of working experience in the electronics industry or supplier quality for the cloud server industry.
• Familiarity with data center environments, including infrastructure, networking, power distribution, and repair processes and procedures.

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

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