Business Growth, Business Support, Cost Control, Electricity, Leadership, Manufacturing, Mechanical Engineering, Outsourcing, Process Improvement, Product Costing, Product Engineering, Product Lifecycle, Product/Service Launch, Quality Management, Research & Development (R&D), Supply Chain, System-on-a-Chip (SoC), Team Lead/Manager, Testing, Vendor/Supplier Evaluation
Advantest is seeking a Director, Product Engineering & Quality within the SoC Test Supply Chain Organization to lead distributed electrical and mechanical Product Engineering teams.
In this strategic leadership role, you will ensure scalable, standardized, and cost-effective Product Engineering execution across an outsourced supply chain. You will drive quality, cost, delivery, and new product introduction objectives through close collaboration with globally distributed R&D teams, suppliers, and manufacturing partners. Furthermore, you will provide leadership for initiatives that improve product quality, accelerate time-to-market, time-to-volume, strengthen supplier performance, and enhance long-term product competitiveness.
Your Responsibilities
- Ensure product and manufacturing readiness to meet quality, volume, and delivery commitments.
- Lead SoC Test SC Division NPI execution to achieve roadmap, time-to-market (TTM), time-to-volume (TTV), quality, and cost objectives.
- Ensure team capability development and efficiency gains of the organization through standardization and process orientation.
- Strengthen collaboration and alignment across Product Engineering, R&D, PMO, Supply Chain, and Suppliers/CMs.
- Drive product quality improvements and cost reduction initiatives throughout the product lifecycle.
- Lead complex NPI, qualification, and multi-sourcing programs to support business growth and supply chain resilience.
- Ensure sustainable product ownership across the full product lifecycle, including quality improvements, cost optimization, and end-of-life support.
- Ensure strategic internal alignment with stakeholder functions and set clear objectives, priorities, and accountability within the team and your team managers.