08 - Senior Team Leader, Operations Quality

General Overview

Functional Area:  Quality (QUA)
Career Stream:  Operations Quality (OPQ)
Role:  Senior Team Leader (STL)
Job Title:  Senior Team Leader, Operations Quality
Job Code:  STL-QUA-OPQ
Job Level:  Band 08
Direct/Indirect Indicator:  Indirect

Job Description

Why Celestica?

Celestica is changing the future! We are imagining, developing and delivering a better future with our customers.

At Celestica, we foster a motivated, high-integrity work environment based on a strong set of corporate Values. These Values empower our employees to provide you with superior service.

Relentless Curiosity

We are obsessed with uncovering the information and insights that allow us to anticipate and overcome the challenges of the future.

Bold Conviction

We dare to envision new solutions, new technologies, new ways of working and invest to make it a reality.

Unwavering Dedication

We exemplify teamwork and commitment in every decision and every action to be the best partners to our customers and our colleagues.

Detailed Description

Perform tasks such as, but not limited to, the following:

• Provides technical expertise on assigned materials for production or customer-identified material problems.
• Performs assessments/risk analysis and quality audits on potential suppliers.
• Generates product specifications and provides to supplier.
• Performs material qualification on prototype / sample material.
• Serves as the program/project interface to coordinate new product launches / introductions.
• Translates customer requirements into factory activities, provides factory activity time estimates for pricing model, documents associated factory support activities, and develops preliminary program timeline for customer quote.
• Defines process problems that lead to throughput or quality issues, evaluates cause of problem, implements solutions to stabilize processes, evaluates results.
• Participates in the selection of new manufacturing equipment.
• Evaluates software and hardware upgrades and new equipment.
• Sets equipment specifications and develops and runs qualification tests.
• Gathers, understands and converts customer data into usable manufacturing information.
• Verifies that specifications conform to customer, industry and company standards.
• Gathers, analyzes, sorts and distributes data to understand and solve quality issues.
• Creates and evaluates metrics to drive the quality improvement process.
• Develops test processes, test fixtures and specialized tools to automate test development.
• Develops assembly/test processes, associated fixtures, and specialized tools.
• Automates where ever possible.
• Develops and implements assembly/test strategy for new products including DFx analysis and feedback.

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

• Engineering Foundation Competencies
• In-depth knowledge and understanding of the design process for systems and printed circuit boards, subassemblies, or other related company products.
• In-depth knowledge of manufacturing processes and equipment used for systems and printed circuit boards and subassemblies.
• In-depth knowledge of industry and quality standards and SPC methodologies.
• In-depth knowledge of materials and components used in the construction of systems and printed circuit boards and subassemblies.
• In-depth knowledge of material science, robotics, machine programming.
• In-depth knowledge of product pricing, contracts and contract negotiations.
• Excellent customer contact, negotiation and problem resolution skills.
• Good presentation, database management and computer skills.
• Strong knowledge of statistical process control methods and techniques.
• Knowledge and understanding of the design process for systems and printed circuit boards.
• Ability to design tests, evaluate results and recommend solutions to improve the processes asso

Typical Experience

• 4 to 6 years in a similar role or industry.

Typical Education

• Bachelor's degree in related field, or consideration of an equivalent combination of education and experiency.
• Educational requirements may vary by geography.

Physical Demands

• The job works in generally good conditions with occasional exposure (10% - 33%) to noise, odours, dust, drafts, chemicals, operating machinery, temperature extremes, hazardous substances, etc.    
• Duties include sustained visual concentration on small areas, such as monitors/screens and sustained visual concentration on numbers/legal documents.
• Occasionally overnight travel is required.

Notes

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities of the position. Employees are held accountable for all duties of the job. Job duties and the % of time identified for any function are subject to change at any time.