Job Description
The role involves leading the establishment and operation of a new semiconductor manufacturing facility, overseeing production, quality, and process improvements, and managing a multidisciplinary team to scale up R&D and medium-rate manufacturing for aerospace and defense products.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and manage the startup, qualification, and transfer of manufacturing capacity to a new facility for R&D and medium-rate production.
- Develop and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) to assess operational performance and drive data-driven improvements.
- Oversee materials planning, forecasting, and product mix management for pre-production and production-released products.
- Manage budgets, control costs, and ensure financial efficiency within the operations department.
- Establish and maintain relationships with suppliers and vendors to ensure quality and cost-effectiveness.
- Ensure compliance with laws, regulations, and company policies across all operations.
- Coordinate with supply chain, engineering, and manufacturing teams to optimize production workflows and reduce cycle times.
- Represent operations management in new product development, strategic planning, and product portfolio decisions.
- Organize and facilitate operational reviews and strategic planning activities.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in engineering or related fields and 15 years of relevant semiconductor experience.
- U.S. citizenship with the ability to obtain and maintain a US Government Security Clearance.
- Proficiency in using operational management software and tools.
- Strong understanding of operational processes and best practices.
- Ability to collaborate with peers and independently multitask, prioritize, make high-level decisions, meet aggressive deadlines, and communicate results, trade-offs, and decisions to all stakeholders.
- Experience in semiconductor product engineering with an emphasis on packaging camera sensors and image sensors with full lifecycle responsibility from NPI launch to EOL.
- Experience in leading and managing operations teams, including hiring, training, and performance evaluation.
- Ability to create, monitor, and analyze key performance indicators (KPIs) to assess operational performance and make data-driven decisions.
- Experience in managing budgets, controlling costs, and ensuring financial efficiency within the operations department.
- Experience in overseeing relationships with suppliers and vendors to ensure quality and cost-effectiveness.
- Knowledge of ensuring operations comply with relevant laws, regulations, and company policies.
- Experience in overseeing and optimizing materials planning and execution, including forecasting and product mix management for both pre-production and production-released products.
- Ability to identify and import best-known methods for customer configuration management for high-complexity product families.
- Experience working with supply chain, product engineering, and manufacturing operations to streamline and optimize production supply chain flows and drive cycle time reduction.
- Experience representing and championing operations management in new product development, strategic planning, and product portfolio decisions.
- Experience organizing and facilitating monthly, quarterly, and annual operational reviews and strategic planning activities.
Benefits & Perks
Compensation/salary range: 216,900 - 278,000 USD plus bonus benefits
Work schedule: Not specified
Work environment perks: Not specified
Additional benefits: Bonus benefits, potential for career growth, working in a high-velocity business, opportunity to lead and manage a multidisciplinary team, involvement in innovative technology and new product development, security clearance eligibility
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