Engineering Manager: Capital Projects & Process Excellence

Actalent; Fremont (CA); On-site; USD 136,000 - 184,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) retirement plan with company-m/

Job summary

Actalent in Fremont, CA is seeking an expert-level leader to own capital planning and drive the execution of a robust capital program across multiple projects. You will ensure proposals align with business strategy, lead productivity initiatives, and manage costs, risks, and compliance in a fast-paced semiconductor environment.

The role requires a strong track record in new product development, scale-up, and cross-functional leadership, with deep knowledge of process controls and maintenance

Qualifications

• BS in Chemical Engineering, Industrial Engineering or equivalent >15 years of relevant experience OR MS Chemical Engineering, Industrial Engineering or equivalent >11 years of relevant experience
• Minimum 10 years of experience developing teams and leading employees through resource management and project prioritization.
• Experience in new product development and scale-up of products and processes.
• Direct experience of customer interactions and expectations of semiconductor industry
• Strong knowledge of process controls and distributed control systems.
• Experience driving best practices for maintenance excellence/preventive maintenance.
• Strong verbal and written communications skills. Self-managing, proactive.
• Demonstrated leadership capability – personnel development, leading teams, resolving conflict, sound judgment

Responsibilities

• Capital planning to meet business unit goals. Lead process to prioritize capital projects into the corporate portfolio planning process.
• Execution of the capital program. Ensure all capital project proposals are consistent with business strategy. Lead projects through capital productivity processes, ensure competitive project implementation.
• Manage business costs associated with capex, period expense, depreciation
• Identifies project risks and develops mitigation strategies to protect against loss and business interruption.
• Provides competency expertise and promotes compliance with best financial practices
• Provide daily plant support for troubleshooting batch process deviations.
• Manage programs to improve first pass yield, reduce scrap and waste
• Manage and implement control plans and FMEA process for product families.
• Define and implement continuous improvement roadmaps to improve capability, yield, capacity and product cost.
• Conduct and manage SPC review process and drive reduction in variation.
• Implement process improvements to meet customer requirements for new and existing products.
• Use process automation and data analysis to improve capability of existing products.
• Develop roadmaps for best-known-methods in key process technologies such as, purification, filtration, packaging, particle measurement.
• Execute requests for samples of new products for customer trials.
• Design and implement shelf-life studies for new formulations.
• Lead technical design review process and HVM readiness activities to ensure that new products can be successfully transferred to manufacturing.
• Develop automation recipes and control strategies for new products.

Skills

scale up

product development process

capex

Education

BS in Chemical Engineering, Industrial Engineering or equivalent >15 years of relevant experience

MS Chemical Engineering, Industrial Engineering or equivalent >11 years of relevant experience

Job description

Actalent in Fremont, CA is seeking an expert-level leader to own capital planning and drive the execution of a robust capital program across multiple projects. You will ensure proposals align with business strategy, lead productivity initiatives, and manage costs, risks, and compliance in a fast-paced semiconductor environment.

The role requires a strong track record in new product development, scale-up, and cross-functional leadership, with deep knowledge of process controls and maintenance