Senior Manager, Process Sustaining Engineering
Analog Devices · Limerick
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The Senior Manager, Process Engineering Work Centre Head is responsible for the safe operation and leadership of a process engineering work centre within the Limerick wafer fabrication facility. The role has overall accountability for safety, quality, output, process capability, tool performance, and people leadership across a portfolio of precision analogue, CMOS, BiCMOS, bipolar, sensor, MEMS, and actuator technologies.
Reporting to the Process Engineering Director, this leader will ensure world-class execution of sustaining operations while driving continuous improvement in manufacturing performance and supporting the development and introduction of future process technologies. The role is responsible for building a high-performing engineering organisation that delivers superior safety, quality, customer satisfaction, and business results.
This position is a key member of the Wafer Fab Management Team and is expected to provide leadership beyond their immediate area of responsibility. The role requires a fab-wide perspective, contributing to site strategy, organisational development, operational excellence, and the achievement of overall business objectives.
Key Responsibilities
Safety Leadership
- Champion a safety-first culture across the work centre and ensure safety remains the highest priority in all activities.
- Ensure compliance with all environmental, health, and safety standards, policies, and regulatory requirements.
- Drive proactive risk identification, mitigation plans, and continuous improvement in safety performance.
- Lead investigations into safety incidents and implement corrective and preventive actions.
Quality & Process Control
- Own process capability, quality performance, SPC compliance, and defect reduction initiatives across the work centre.
- Ensure robust process controls are in place to protect product quality and customer requirements.
- Drive root cause analysis and corrective actions for significant process and quality excursions.
- Partner with Quality, Manufacturing, and Product teams to continuously improve process performance and reliability.
Output, Capacity & Delivery
- Ensure the work centre delivers output commitments and supports customer delivery requirements.
- Drive improvements in cycle time, throughput, productivity, and operational execution.
- Partner closely with Manufacturing and Planning teams to remove constraints and maximise factory performance.
- Lead recovery plans and execution activities during operational challenges or capacity constraints.
Tool Performance & Asset Effectiveness
- Own tool availability, uptime, utilisation, and overall equipment effectiveness within the work centre.
- Drive improvements in equipment performance, reliability, and cost-effective operation.
- Partner with Equipment Engineering and Manufacturing to maximise the value and productivity of capital assets.
- Ensure tools are capable of meeting technology performance and manufacturing requirements.
Technology Development & Introduction
- Support the development, qualification, and ramp-up of new process technologies and manufacturing capabilities.
- Provide technical leadership across precision analogue, CMOS, BiCMOS, bipolar, sensor, MEMS, and actuator technologies.
- Ensure successful transfer of new technologies into high-volume manufacturing environments.
- Drive continuous improvement in process capability to support future technology roadmaps and business growth.
People Leadership & Organisational Capability
- Lead, coach, mentor, and develop process engineers, senior engineers, and technical leaders.
- Build organisational capability, succession plans, and technical depth within the team.
- Establish a culture of ownership, accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.
- Attract, develop, and retain top engineering talent to support current and future business needs.
Cross-Functional Leadership
- Collaborate effectively with Manufacturing, Equipment Engineering, Integration, Quality, Facilities, Planning, and Product teams.
- Communicate priorities, risks, recovery plans, and improvement opportunities to senior leadership.
- Lead and influence cross-functional teams to achieve business, operational, and technology objectives.
- Support strategic fab initiatives, operational excellence programs, and capacity expansion activities.
Key Qualifications
- 13+ years of experience and 6+ years of diversified leadership.
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Physics, Materials Science, Semiconductor Engineering, or a related technical discipline. Advanced degree preferred.
- Significant semiconductor wafer fabrication and process engineering experience.
- Proven leadership experience managing engineering teams and technical organisations.
- Strong understanding of process control, yield improvement, quality systems, equipment performance, and manufacturing operations.
- Experience across analogue, CMOS, BiCMOS, bipolar, MEMS, sensor, or related semiconductor technologies is highly desirable.
- Demonstrated ability to lead organisational change, develop talent, and drive operational excellence.
- Strong communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills.
Success Measures
- World-class safety performance across the work centre.
- Strong quality and process capability metrics.
- Achievement of output, cycle time, and customer delivery objectives.
- Improved tool uptime, utilisation, and overall equipment effectiveness.
- Successful introduction and support of new technologies.
- Development of a highly capable, engaged, and accountable engineering organisation.
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Job Req Type: ExperiencedRequired Travel: Yes, 10% of the timeShift Type: 1st Shift/Days