Create a vision for product quality and operational improvement year over year. Set ambitious 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, ensure vendors are conforming to Apple ERS specs and requirements. Lead 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. 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. Implement AI and Machine Learning techniques into factory processes to better streamline data collection and analysis. Continuous operation improvement with yearly Initiatives.