Manager, Supplier Quality Engineering – Optical Commodities

Lead a global team of Supplier Quality Engineers across multiple sites, establishing organizational priorities and fostering a culture of continuous improvement. Own the Supplier Quality strategy for Optical Commodities, ensuring robust supplier qualification, performance monitoring, and risk management while driving consistent implementation of global standards. Provide leadership for Incoming Quality Assurance activities, utilizing data and metrics to optimize inspection strategies and balance product quality with manufacturing efficiency. Serve as the primary quality representative for strategic optical suppliers, managing communications, escalations, and executive-level engagements to improve quality, reliability, and delivery performance. Partner closely with Engineering, Sourcing, Operations, and Manufacturing to ensure supplier readiness and proactively identify risks. This highly visible leadership opportunity shapes the global quality strategy for one of Lumentum's most critical commodity areas, playing a key role in developing talent and strengthening partnerships across the worldwide supply chain.