Manufacturing Quality Manager - Tempe Spares Mfg, AZ, United States
$120,000 - $165,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 18 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
The Manufacturing Quality Manager leads the manufacturing quality and inspection organization to ensure products meet engineering specifications, customer requirements, internal quality standards, and applicable regulatory and Quality Management System requirements.
What you'll do
- Lead manufacturing quality activities to ensure products meet engineering drawings, specifications, customer requirements, and quality standards.
- Drive improvement in product quality, first-pass yield, scrap, rework, defect reduction, and customer escapes.
- Manage incoming, in-process, and final inspection activities to support manufacturing and shipment priorities.
- Lead investigation of complex and recurring quality issues using 8D, 5 Why, Fishbone, FMEA, SPC, and other quality tools.
- Maintain compliance with the Quality Management System (QMS), ISO 9001, internal procedures, and customer requirements.
- Lead, coach, and develop Quality Engineers and Quality Technicians.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, Materials Science, or a related technical field, or equivalent relevant experience.
- 10+ years of manufacturing quality or quality engineering experience, preferably in a precision manufacturing environment.
- Strong experience with precision machining, advanced materials, and coating processes.
- Strong knowledge of engineering drawings, GD&T, dimensional inspection, CMM, and precision measurement equipment.
- Experience with ISO 9001, QMS, CAPA, 8D, FMEA, SPC, and root cause analysis.
- Demonstrated ability to lead complex quality investigations and cross-functional problem-solving activities.
Nice to have
- 5+ years of leadership or people-management experience preferred.
Skills: manufacturing quality, first-pass yield, scrap, defect reduction, quality metrics, ISO 9001
This role has been open 25 days — well below the 62-day median for Manufacturing/Industrial Engineering roles.
Manufacturing/Industrial Engineering · Yield Engineering
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Open roles in category
67
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Median days open
62 d
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Median salary
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Applied Materials | All employers we track in this specialty (67 roles · 26 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 1 | 67 |
| Open roles in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family | 1105 | 9854 · 109 employers |
| Median days open | 25 d | 62 d (−37 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | — |
Skills observed across this category: manufacturing quality, first-pass yield, scrap, defect reduction, quality metrics, ISO 9001
Who's hiring in this category
- Micron Technology · 27 open roles · median 47 d
- Entegris · 7 open roles · median 89 d
- Western Digital · 4 open roles · median 45 d
- Infineon Technologies · 3 open roles · median 96 d
- Lumentum · 2 open roles · median 186 d
- onsemi · 2 open roles · median 118 d
How we counted: 67 open Manufacturing/Industrial Engineering (Yield Engineering) roles from 26 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 13 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family row. Figures refresh nightly.