Fab Director

alwayshired pte. ltd.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

alwayshired pte. ltd.

is assisting a Singapore semiconductor facility in identifying an experienced Facilities Director to lead the facilities organization, covering engineering, operations, maintenance, utilities and infrastructure for a 24/7 high-reliability fab. The role shapes the long-term facilities strategy, drives CAPEX/OPEX budgeting, delivers major infrastructure projects, and ensures safety, reliability and regulatory compliance to enable production targets.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, or Facilities Engineering.
• 15+ years in engineering/facilities with semiconductor or high-reliability manufacturing.
• Proven leadership of large multidisciplinary facilities teams.
• Experience with CAPEX/OPEX budgets and infrastructure projects.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership for facilities engineering, operations, maintenance, and utilities in a 24/7 fab.
• Develop long-term facilities strategy, capacity planning, and infrastructure roadmap.
• Ensure reliability of critical utilities including power, HVAC, water, gases, and waste systems.
• Lead major CAPEX projects from design through ramp-up and handover.
• Establish maintenance programs and business continuity plans.
• Collaborate with operations, EHS, finance, and procurement to support production targets.

Skills

Leadership

Facilities mgmt

CAPEX budgeting

Cross-functional collaboration

Regulatory compliance

Data-driven reliability

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Tools

BMS/FMS

Facilities automation

Energy management systems

Job description

About:

Our client is a semiconductor wafer manufacturing facility in Singapore is being developed as part of a major joint venture to support the next generation of semiconductor technologies and devices.

As the facility moves towards construction, commissioning and production ramp-up, we are seeking an experienced Facilities Director to lead the overall facilities organization and establish a world-class infrastructure platform for a high-reliability, 24/7 semiconductor manufacturing operation.

Responsibilities

• Provide overall leadership for the Facilities organization, covering facilities engineering, operations, maintenance, utilities, infrastructure projects and technical support for a 24/7 300mm semiconductor fab.
• Develop and execute the site's long-term facilities strategy, capacity planning and infrastructure roadmap, aligned with manufacturing, technology and future expansion requirements.
• Ensure the availability, reliability and resilience of critical fab utilities, including electrical power, HVAC, chilled/process cooling water, UPW, CDA, vacuum, bulk and specialty gases, chemicals, exhaust and abatement, wastewater treatment and fire protection systems.
• Lead major CAPEX and infrastructure projects from design and construction through commissioning, qualification, ramp-up and final handover, ensuring safety, quality, schedule and cost targets are achieved.
• Establish and drive robust reliability, preventive and predictive maintenance, emergency response and business continuity programmes to minimize facilities-related disruption to manufacturing.
• Partner closely with Fab Operations, Process Engineering, Equipment Engineering, EHS, Quality, Finance and Procurement to ensure facilities capabilities support production targets and technology requirements.
• Drive energy efficiency, resource optimization, sustainability and continuous improvement across the site's facilities infrastructure and operations.
• Establish appropriate facilities standards, procedures, KPIs and governance frameworks to support high equipment availability, operational excellence and regulatory compliance.
• Build, develop and lead a high-performing multidisciplinary facilities organization, including succession planning and development of local engineering and technical talent.

Requirement

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, Facilities, Building Services Engineering or a related engineering discipline.
• 15+ years of relevant engineering and facilities experience, with substantial experience in semiconductor manufacturing or another high-reliability manufacturing environment.
• Proven leadership experience managing large, multidisciplinary facilities engineering and operations teams.
• Strong technical knowledge of semiconductor fab facilities and critical utility infrastructure.
• Demonstrated experience managing significant CAPEX/OPEX budgets and delivering major infrastructure or facilities projects.
• Strong understanding of facilities reliability, risk management, operational safety and regulatory compliance.
• Experience operating in a 24/7 manufacturing environment with stringent uptime, reliability and business continuity requirements.
• Experience with BMS/FMS, facilities automation, monitoring systems and data-driven reliability programmes.
• Strong technical expertise across UPW, critical power, HVAC, process cooling, CDA, vacuum, bulk/specialty gases, chemicals, exhaust/abatement and wastewater systems.
• Proven experience in greenfield fab construction, expansion, commissioning, qualification, ramp-up or major infrastructure upgrades.
• Strong project leadership capabilities with the ability to manage complex, cross-functional and high-value infrastructure programmes.