Senior Manager Yield and Stability Excellence

Infineon Technologies AG; Malacca City; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Infineon Technologies AG in Malaysia seeks a Senior Manager Yield and Stability Excellence to lead a high-volume backend manufacturing team, sustaining and improving yield, stability, scrap management, and cost performance. You will drive cross-functional collaboration with Operations, Engineering, R&D, and Business Divisions to resolve yield challenges and deliver continuous improvement.

You will provide technical leadership, manage performance, and deploy scalable methods to optimize

Qualifications

• Degree in Electrical / Electronics / Physics / Chemistry or related engineering discipline.
• Minimum 10 years of working experience in semiconductor industry, especially in process, product, yield, or test engineering.
• Strong leadership, communication, analytical, and presentation skills; ability to coach and develop teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead Yield and Stability team to sustain and improve yield, stability, scrap management and cost performance in a high-volume backend environment.
• Drive cross-functional collaboration with Operations, Engineering, R&D and Business Divisions to resolve yield-related challenges and enable continuous improvement.
• Provide technical leadership and governance of yield management, with end-to-end responsibility from pre-assembly to final test.
• Set performance indicators, monitor improvements, and conduct periodic reviews to ensure achievement of objectives.
• Analyze yield data, Pareto trends, test failures, and process indicators to identify opportunities and mitigate risks.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Analytical thinking

Presentation skills

Coaching & mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Degree in Electrical / Electronics / Physics / Chemistry or related engineering discipline

Job description

#WeAreIn for jobs that impact everyone's life.

Join the thinkers, builders, and problem-solvers behind tomorrow’s technology. As a Senior Manager Yield and Stability Excellence, you'll have the opportunity to merge creativity with your technical expertise by shaping the future of technology, driving groundbreaking projects, and bringing new ideas to life. Are you in?

Key responsibilities in your new role

In this role, you will lead the Yield and Stability team in sustaining and improving yield, stability, scrap management, and cost performance to achieve organizational objectives in a high-volume semiconductor back-end manufacturing environment.

You will support people development and performance management, while driving cross-functional collaboration with Operations, Engineering, R&D, and Business Divisions to resolve yield-related challenges and deliver continuous improvement.

Accountable and responsible for backend end-to-end (pre-assembly to final test) yield sustaining, improvement and stability of the Operations.

Provide technical leadership in line with organization's mission and deploy to next level by prioritizing multiple activities ranging from daily operational support to sustainable improvement in performance using sound problem-solving techniques and communication/ negotiation skills.

Interface and collaborate with other Test locations, Frontend, Cluster and Global PTE, DIV PRM and other Backend manufacturing sites on yield and escalation topics.

Drives cross-functional action plans with clear owners, milestones, and accountability, while challenging barriers, removing obstacles, and maintaining execution momentum to ensure targets are achieved and demonstrating urgency when performance deviates from goals.

Responsible for performance management by setting effective indicators, monitoring and driving improvement, and conducting periodical review to ensure continuity of activities, achievement of short-term and long-range objectives of the organization.

Proactively analyzes yield data, Pareto trends, test failures, and process indicators to identify improvement opportunities and emerging risks before significant impact occurs and prioritizes opportunities based on business impact.

Responsible for governance of yield systematic and implement methods to enhance yield management process.

Responsible for yearly MAL TCR yield plan and target setting that deliver minimum €6mil CoY gain annually thru yield initiatives led by YSE YL head.

Responsible for MAL Operations escalation and manage Escalation Review platform to provide weekly overall excursion topics and drive for lesson learnt and best practices across modules for standardization and effective complexity management.

Your profile Qualifications and skills to help you succeed

You strive for excellence in semiconductor manufacturing, leveraging extensive experience in process, product, yield, or test engineering to drive performance, solve complex problems, and deliver sustainable improvements. You demonstrate strong leadership, communication, analytical, and presentation skills, with the ability to coach and develop teams while collaborating effectively across functional areas to achieve business objectives.

Degree in Electrical / Electronics / Physics / Chemistry or any other relevant engineering discipline

Minimum 10 years of working experience in the semiconductor industry, particularly in process, product, yield, or test engineering

Broad knowledge of wafer fabrication processes, assembly processes, and quality systems will be an added advantage

Excellent knowledge of assembly process, test process or product engineering

Working knowledge of front-end, development and quality systematic and tools

Professional leadership of team including coaching, mentoring and team’s development

Strong interpersonal communication skills

Strong analytical thought and problem-solving knowledge in own and other functional areas (e.g. quality, test process)

Effective presentation skills to big audience

#WeAreIn for driving decarbonization and digitalization.

As a global leader in semiconductor solutions in power systems and IoT, Infineon enables game-changing solutions for green and efficient energy, clean and safe mobility, as well as smart and secure IoT. Together, we drive innovation and customer success, while caring for our people and empowering them to reach ambitious goals. Be a part of making life easier, safer and greener.

Are you in? We are on a journey to create the best Infineon for everyone. We strive to create the best Infineon for everyone by embracing diversity and inclusion. We welcome applicants for who they are and offer a workplace built on trust, openness, respect and equal opportunity.

Our hiring decisions are based on skills and experience. Even if you don’t meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply. Please let your recruiter know if you need any accommodations during the interview process.

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