- 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- Deep dive into machine and process design for high precision manufacturing assembly- Innovate factory processes, concepts, and design to enable an ideal manufacturing process- 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. - Drive overall program and factory readiness for the technology and mass production