Create a vision for product quality and operational improvements year over year. Set aggressive improvement targets and drive plans to achieve. Be involved at product concept to ensure products are manufacturable and conduct design for manufacturability reviews. Build in constant design improvement for product quality, factory efficiency and product cost. Approve vendor process, process flow and automation equipment design Manage new process introduction and special projects, such as new testers. Deep dive into machine and process design for high precision manufacturing assembly Innovate factory processes, concepts, and design to enable an ideal manufacturing process Collaborate with quality teams to review and approve quality control plans (tests, methods, sample sizes, pass/fail criteria). Ensure cosmetic standards are aligned with module integrator. Audit and approve manufacturers for mass production (MP) readiness. Ensure vendors are conforming to Apple ERS specs and requirements. Contribute to release reviews and verify that all Technical, Operational and Quality aspects are ready to ramp. Lead resolution of component related design or process issues in component fab, back-end processing, transit and module integrator. Monitor and report yield, manufacturing metrics (CpK, FMEA etc.). Drive improvement programs as appropriate. Drive FACA for component related returns from integrators, field returns, and EFFA issues. Track, report and close out issues in a timely manner. Routine status reporting to executives and issue escalation when needed. Collaborate with Hardware engineering teams on optimizing component designs and processes Interface with internal and external quality and reliability engineering teams Drive overall program and factory readiness for the technology and mass production Implement AI and Machine Learning techniques into factory processes to better streamline data collection and analysis