Manager of Quality and Reliability (QA/RA)/ Responsable Qualité et Fiabilité

The Manager of Quality and Reliability (QA/RA - Quality Assurance/Reliability Assurance) will lead the development and execution of quality strategies for MEMS, ensuring compliance with customer and industry standards. This position plays the critical leadership role in ensuring Stathera MEMS quality meets the most stringent performance, reliability, and compliance standards throughout their lifecycle.

The Manager of Quality and Reliability Engineering will report directly to the Director of Operations and can be based in Montreal, Toronto or Vancouver.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES

• Oversee and approve MEMS product qualification plans, ensuring alignment with customer and company standards.
• Provide strategic direction and review reliability and qualification for internal and external stakeholders.
• Lead cross-functional teams to resolve quality and reliability issues and facilitate effective communication with internal technical teams.
• Manage the NPI quality, ensuring meeting performance, schedule, and project goals. This includes product quality and reliability evaluation, qual. plan, and release to manufacturing.
• Cross functional collaboration with the engineering team. Act as a quality leader between design, engineering, test, and manufacturing teams to ensure alignment on technical requirements, timelines, and production goals.
• Manage SQE (Supplier Quality Engineering) team to oversee supplier performance, resolve production issues, and ensure compliance with quality and delivery standards.
• Conduct supplier audits (e.g., ISO9001..) and manage corrective actions.
• Resolve non-conformance issues and drive root cause analysis, OCAP and 8D with suppliers.
• Validate supplier readiness for mass production and ensure quality gates are in place.
• Quality risk management. Proactively identify risks in the product lifecycle and maintain detailed documentation of development milestones, issue tracking, and resolution updates for internal reporting.
• Mentor quality and reliability engineers, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and technical excellence.

REQUIRED SKILLS

• BS or MS in Engineering or equivalent with 7-10 years of Engineering work in the Semiconductor Industry;
• Must have strong interpersonal skills and the ability to interact effectively with technical people;
• Must have the ability to work across a variety of global time zones;
• Experience in semiconductor processes, quality and reliability used in the semiconductor industry (e.g. AEC, JEDEC, ISO, RoHS, etc.);
• Define and implement quality and reliability strategies for MEMS technologies, including wafer-level and packaging processes;
• Strong foundation in MEMS and semiconductor processes;
• Skilled in reliability tests (HTOL, HAST, THB, TCT, ESD, etc.);
• Strong coordination and communication skills to drive teams across engineering, operation, and suppliers;
• Competence in data analysis (e.g. JMP) for yield, quality and reliability;
• Understanding of the impact and the cost of failure;
• Familiar with quality tools (e.g. 8D, fishbone diagram, 5 Whys, PPAP, PFMEA, etc.)

BENEFITS

At Stathera, we value the well-being and success of our exceptional employees. That's why we proudly offer a comprehensive Group Benefits Plan that includes medical, dental, and vision coverage, which is accompanied by an annual Health and Wellness Allowance. In line with our commitment to fostering a collaborative and inclusive work environment, we provide the opportunity to our employees to share in our success through our Employee Stock Ownership Plan. In addition to our competitive compensation plans, we also understand the importance of maintaining a healthy work-life balance. To support this, we provide employees with annual personal days in addition to their accrued vacation days, empowering our employees to effectively manage personal commitments while maintaining their professional pursuits.

Stathera is an Equal Opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to creating a work environment based on mutual respect, hard work and inclusion without bias or discrimination. Our team is made up of people from all backgrounds and walks of life, and each member is valued for what they know and what they can contribute. As a collective we are continuously learning and encourage each other to push our boundaries and make mistakes we can all learn from. Those who do so will get an opportunity to grow with us and share in our success.