Description and Requirements
Role Summary
This is a global leadership opportunity within Lenovo's manufacturing quality organization, focused on strengthening manufacturing performance and continuous improvement across worldwide manufacturing sites. You will lead a geographically distributed team responsible for managing quality excursions, conducting internal and customer-driven manufacturing audits, and turning local improvements into repeatable global processes. You will also develop a strong partnership with a key CSP customer while maintaining a clear focus on manufacturing quality and technical leadership. The role is based in Taiwan and requires international collaboration and approximately 20% travel.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and develop a global manufacturing quality team, bringing together team members across manufacturing locations to drive consistent execution and continuous improvement.
- Manage worldwide quality excursions and guide the team in investigating manufacturing issues, identifying root causes, implementing corrective actions, and preventing recurrence.
- Drive manufacturing continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to strengthen existing processes, manufacturing controls, quality performance, and TPY.
- Lead internal and customer-driven manufacturing audits, partnering with manufacturing sites to ensure processes are well controlled and improvement opportunities are addressed.
- Scale successful improvements globally, translating solutions developed at individual manufacturing sites into consistent processes and practices across the worldwide manufacturing network.
- Analyze manufacturing and quality data, including Supplier Quality Reviews, Manufacturing Process Reviews, audit findings, quality performance data, and customer feedback to identify improvement priorities.
- Build a strong partnership with a key CSP customer, working closely with its Taiwan-based development and quality organization on manufacturing quality topics.
- Collaborate across functions with global manufacturing engineering, local manufacturing management, test, and customer quality engineering teams to resolve issues and strengthen manufacturing performance.
Skills & Experience
Must-have
- Strong technical background and practical experience in manufacturing processes and manufacturing quality, with the ability to lead technically experienced quality professionals.
- Demonstrated experience driving continuous improvement within a manufacturing environment, with a track record of translating identified issues into sustainable improvements.
- Experience with manufacturing or quality audits, including internal and/or customer-driven audits.
- Experience working in a global or geographically distributed environment, collaborating effectively across manufacturing sites, functions, and time zones.
- Ability to provide technical and people leadership to a distributed manufacturing quality team while aligning improvement activities across sites.
- Must have legal authorization to work in Taiwan, consistent with Lenovo's Taiwan JD guidance.
- Willingness to travel internationally approximately 20%, including visits to manufacturing sites and support for customer activities when required.
Good-to-have
- Manufacturing experience within server environments is preferred relevant experience in other electronics manufacturing environments may also be considered.
- Customer-facing experience, particularly working with large CSP customers on manufacturing or quality topics.
