Senior Staff Engineer
Job Summary
As a Senior/Staff Engineer, you will lead the coordination, analysis, and optimization of new parts within the semiconductor fab. The role focuses on improving production metrics, cycle time, and capacity planning through cross-functional collaboration. You will leverage data modeling and statistical tools to drive operational efficiency and support new product introductions.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate and optimize new part introduction (NPI)
- Manage production metrics, WIP, and cycle times
- Develop dashboards and data visualizations for project status
- Perform statistical analysis and predictive modeling
- Drive cross-functional operational planning
Required Skills
- SQL, Tableau, Power BI, Python, R
- Semiconductor manufacturing operations
- Capacity planning and scheduling
- Statistical analysis and problem solving
- Project and stakeholder management
Job Details
Responsibilities:
- Partner with key team members to develop applications and processes to continuously improve production metrics.
- Collaborate with engineering to plan for future product introduction.
- Partner with the area Engineering and Operations teams to keep updated on area issues, priorities, and projects.
- Communicate fab performance metrics to a large diverse group of customers.
- Coordinate New Part Introduction (NPI) between teams.
- Set strategic and tactical plans for Wip In Progress (WIP), Cycle Time (CT), and priority allocations.
- Drive operational planning for critical efforts ensuring the ability to meet critical timelines.
- Develop standard processes, reports, dashboards, and other data visualizations to convey project status.
- Plan, track, and report on key lot status.
- Use statistical analysis to optimize fab performance metrics and audit manufacturing capacity information.
- Present findings and recommend solutions to fab performance gaps.
- Drive innovation by researching and using new data modeling techniques or tools.
- Evaluate and collaborate on scenarios representing changes, perform what-if scenarios, and work with Engineering and Operations to understand impacts.
- Innovate and implement best-in-class predictive models and decision tools to address business needs.
- Seek out novel methodologies and tools to better predict and track manufacturing key performance indicators.
Qualifications:
- Excellent multi-tasking, time-management, organization, and prioritization skills.
- Dedicated to establishing and maintaining effective relationships.
- Proven track record to communicate sophisticated analysis in a succinct and actionable manner.
- Sophisticated skills in Microsoft Office Outlook, Excel, and Power Point.
- Proven ability to identify, develop, propose, and implement effective plans to drive overall efficiency.
- Proven ability to organize and efficiently facilitate meetings and project teams.
- Demonstrated analytical problem-solving skills with ability to fix complex problems and address root causes.
- Solid understanding of statistics, data analysis, and problem-solving.
- Knowledgeable in the use of tools such as Tableau, Power BI, Python, R.
- Solid understanding of production line management techniques and theories.
- Eagerness to learn and grow understanding of semiconductor production floor concepts and operations.
- Understanding of Manufacturing Science (scheduling, inventory management, capacity planning).
Requirements (Education and Experience):
- Bachelors Degree in Industrial System/Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Production Operations Management, Supply Chain, or equivalent with minimum 5 years of relevant experience in Semiconductor Operations/Manufacturing field.
- OR Masters Degree in Industrial System/Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Production Operations Management, Supply Chain, or equivalent with minimum 2 years of relevant experience in Semiconductor Operations/Manufacturing.
- Knowledge of the semiconductor wafer Fabrication manufacturing process regarding capacity planning, automation, scheduling, cycle time, and manufacturing efficiency.
- Experience in using SQL, Tableau, AI tools in semiconductor wafer Fabrication manufacturing process.