SFC (MES) Domain Leader – Wafer Fabs

Texas Instruments · Dallas

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What You’ll Build

You will lead the team responsible for the digital nervous system of TI’s wafer fabs—ensuring every lot, tool, operator, and manufacturing event is orchestrated through a modern, scalable, and resilient Shop Floor Control platform. Your work will directly enable the evolution from highly automated factories to autonomous, AI-driven manufacturing, where MES serves as the foundation for intelligent decision-making, real-time execution, and continuous optimization.

Position Summary

The SFC (Shop Floor Control / Manufacturing Execution Systems) Domain Leader is responsible for defining and executing the strategic vision for Manufacturing Execution Systems across Texas Instruments’ wafer fabrication facilities. This leader owns the SFC technology roadmap, drives modernization of factory execution capabilities, and ensures reliable delivery of business outcomes that improve factory productivity, quality, and operational excellence.

This role combines strategic leadership, technical direction, and execution oversight. The successful candidate will build and lead a high-performing engineering organization, partner closely with manufacturing and IT leadership, and ensure that SFC capabilities enable the long-term vision of autonomous semiconductor manufacturing.

This role reports directly into the Vice President of Manufacturing Solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategy & Vision

Define the long-term vision and technology strategy for Shop Floor Control (MES) across all wafer fabrication facilities.
Develop and maintain a multi-year roadmap aligned with Smart Manufacturing objectives.
Identify opportunities to modernize MES architecture, improve scalability, resilience, and user experience.
Evaluate emerging technologies including AI, event-driven architectures, and agent-based factory operations.

Delivery Excellence

Own delivery of SFC program commitments across multiple manufacturing sites.
Ensure predictable execution of roadmaps, budgets, milestones, and business outcomes.
Drive Agile execution, backlog prioritization, release planning, and continuous delivery.
Remove execution risks and proactively manage dependencies across manufacturing, equipment automation, and infrastructure teams.

Manufacturing Partnership

Partner with Fab Operations, Manufacturing Engineering, Process Engineering, and Factory Automation teams to understand operational priorities.
Translate manufacturing needs into scalable MES capabilities. Influence cross-functional decisions that improve manufacturing performance.
Drive standardization while accommodating site-specific business requirements where appropriate.
Build trusted relationships with factory leadership and executive stakeholders. Communicate roadmap, priorities, risks, and investment opportunities.

Domain Leadership

Lead the global SFC engineering organization responsible for wafer fab execution systems.
Build organizational capability through hiring, coaching, mentoring, and succession planning.
Establish engineering standards, architecture principles, and software development best practices.
Foster a culture of innovation, ownership, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.

Technology Leadership

Provide technical leadership for capabilities including:

Production execution
Lot tracking and genealogy
WIP management
Dispatching integration
Recipe and process enforcement
Equipment integration
Operator workflows
Electronic work instructions
Hold and release management
Data collection and traceability
Exception handling
Factory event processing
Manufacturing analytics integration

Architecture & Modernization

Drive modernization of legacy MES platforms.
Define future-state architecture leveraging APIs, event streaming, cloud-native technologies where appropriate, and AI-enabled workflows.
Ensure high availability, cybersecurity, scalability, and disaster recovery capabilities.
Champion reusable platforms and common services across factories.

Why TI?

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About Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments Incorporated (Nasdaq: TXN) is a global semiconductor company that designs, manufactures and sells analog and embedded processing chips for markets such as industrial, automotive, data center, personal electronics and communications equipment. At our core, we have a passion to create a better world by making electronics more affordable through semiconductors. This passion is alive today as each generation of innovation builds upon the last to make our technology more reliable, more affordable and lower power, making it possible for semiconductors to go into electronics everywhere. Learn more at TI.com.

Texas Instruments is an equal opportunity employer and supports a diverse, inclusive work environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, disability, genetic information, national origin, gender, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

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