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Director of Industrial & Sustaining Engineering - Foundry

Role overview

Summary

This role is for overseeing the delivery of externally manufactured wafers at Nexperia. It involves managing foundries, driving operational execution, and ensuring quality and yield improvements while coordinating with various stakeholders.

Qualifications

  • Degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Physics or Industrial Management.
  • Knowledge of process or discrete/Logic device technology.
  • Experienced in supporting R&D project, process transfer, yield enhancement, process development.
  • Fluent oral English, writing and comprehension are necessary.
  • Preferred: 10+ years work experience or more in a wafer foundry in Integration/Yield Enhancement/Engineering/R&D/management role.

Responsibilities

  • Manage company’s foundries and manufacturing sites
  • Plan and align targets, strategy and development opportunities
  • Drive yield improvement activities with the foundry technical team to meet yield goals
  • Monitor, review and manage any process changes/improvements supporting requests from 3rd Party Foundries.

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Communication
  • Self-Motivation

About the company

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Nexperia

  • Semiconductors
  • XLarge
  • 10,001+
Headquartered in the Netherlands, Nexperia is a global semiconductor company with a rich European history and over 15,000 employees across Europe, Asia, and the United States. As a leading expert in the development and production of essential semiconductors, Nexperia’s components enable the basic functionality of virtually every electronic design in the world – from automotive and industrial to mobile and consumer applications. The company serves a global customer base, shipping more than 100 billion products annually. These products are recognized as benchmarks in efficiency – in process, size, power and performance. Nexperia's commitment to innovation, efficiency, sustainability, and stringent industry requirements are evident in its extensive IP portfolio, its expanding product range and its certification to IATF 16949, ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 standards. For questions or more information about our career opportunities: joinourteam@nexperia.com Connect with us today and become a part of TeamNexperia! Nexperia - Efficiency Wins.

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Job description

POSITION OVERVIEW:

  • Ensure delivery of externally manufactured wafers within agreed performance 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Manage company’s foundries and manufacturing sites
  • Plan and align targets, strategy and development opportunities
  • New foundry and business potential and partnership
  • Manage teams to:
    • Drive Supplier operational execution with Foundry incl. supply, quality, yield, excursion prevention
    • Drive KPI for all 3rdParty Foundries for Delivery, through put time, Yield and Quality including follow up on improvement actions
    • Drive yield improvement activities with the foundry technical team to meet yield goals.
  • Work with foundry to ensure sufficient capacity is in place to satisfy Nexperia demand.
  • Monitor, review and manage any process changes/improvements supporting requests both from 3rd Party Foundries to BL’s and from BL’s to 3rd Party Foundries.
  • Co-ordinate and drive solutions to customer complaints hold lots and yield/processing excursions related to 3rdParty Foundry ensuring route cause is understood and corrective actions are in place.
  • Operational and technical review, technology transfer and technology selection
  • Relation management and communication interface between NEXPERIA to Foundry
  • Business Continuity for production crisis management
  • Keep up to date with the regions foundry market and drive site selection process for new business opportunities

SKILLS /COMPETENCIES

(Top 3-7 most important/critical competencies needed for the job both soft and hard skills): 

  • Hard Skills:
    • Knowledge of process or discrete/Logic device technology
    • Experienced in supporting R&D project, process transfer, yield enhancement, process development
    • Knowledge of CMOS/MOSFET/Rectifiers/Transistors Discrete or Logic technology an key advantage
  • Soft Skills:
    • Project management skills and people management skills
    • Excellent communication skills and ability to drive activities across highly matrixes, cross-functional teams as well as external suppliers
    • Strong self-motivation, hands on attitude, and a team player
    • Fluent oral English, writing and comprehension are necessary

JOB SPECIFICATIONS:

  • Degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Physics or Industrial Management
  • Preferably 10+ years work experience or more in a wafer foundry in Integration/ Yield
  • Enhancement/ Engineering/ R&D/ management role

ACCOUNTABILITIES:

- KPIs – Deliverables and Process: Meet agreed performance indexes of manufacturing and delivery

- Output (Deliverables): Wafers delivered to Nexperia according to the service agreements signed between foundry and Nexperia

Talent acquisition based on Nexperia vacancies is not appreciated. Nexperia job adverts are Nexperia copyright © material and the word Nexperia® is a registered trademark.

D&I Statement

As an equal-opportunity employer, Nexperia values diversity not just because it is the right thing to do but because diverse teams perform better. We are dedicated to being inclusive, and a proof point of this dedication is that we were the main partner of the very first Dutch Paralympic Team NL House during the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games. Our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all, and we consider all applicants fairly, as well as providing a safe work environment and reasonable adjustments where requested.

In addition, we offer our colleagues the possibility to join employee resource groups such as the Pride Network Group or global and local Women's groups. Nexperia is committed to increasing women in management positions to 30% by 2030.

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