Director, Manufacturing Quality (APAC)

Location: Pathum Tani, Thailand

Company

hirify.global is a high-speed connectivity technology company focused on networking solutions and meaningful business and societal impact.

What you will do

• Lead execution of the manufacturing quality strategy across the APAC manufacturing ecosystem.
• Develop regional quality organizations across geographically distributed teams.
• Govern quality performance, risk reviews, and escalations across contract manufacturers and suppliers.
• Act as an independent quality authority across Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Customer Quality, and partner organizations.
• Drive defect reduction, process capability, reliability, cycle-time, cost of poor quality, and customer satisfaction improvements.
• Lead root cause analysis and corrective and preventive actions for complex customer and manufacturing quality issues.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, Operations, or a related technical discipline.
• 15+ years of experience in manufacturing quality, supplier quality, operations, or engineering leadership in complex, high-technology manufacturing environments.
• 5+ years of people leadership experience, including leadership of managers, senior technical professionals, and cross-functional teams.
• Experience leading quality programs across contract manufacturing, supplier, and manufacturing operations environments.
• Experience influencing senior stakeholders across Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Customer Quality, manufacturing partners, and business functions.
• Knowledge of quality systems, manufacturing process controls, reliability methodologies, supplier quality management, structured problem-solving, and risk-based decision-making.

Nice to have

• Experience in optical networking, telecommunications, photonics, electronics manufacturing, semiconductor, or other complex technology products.
• Experience with high-volume manufacturing, outsourced manufacturing models, and global supply chains.
• Certifications or advanced training in Six Sigma, Quality Management Systems, Lean Manufacturing, Operational Excellence, Reliability Engineering, or Supplier Quality.
• Experience with APQP, PPAP, FMEA, DOE, SPC, MSA, reliability engineering, supplier development, and structured problem-solving frameworks.
• Experience supporting manufacturing transfers, site expansions, new site qualification, supplier transitions, or regional scale-up initiatives.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible work environment focused on individual growth, well-being, and belonging.
• Respectful and inclusive workplace that values diversity and individual contributions.
• Equal opportunity employment, including disability and protected veteran status.