Lead Project Manager, Semiconductor MES & Factory Automation

Q1 Technologies, Inc.; Fremont (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Q1 Technologies, Inc. seeks an accomplished program manager for semiconductor MES and factory automation projects in the Fremont area. The role demands deep onsite project leadership, end-to-end governance, and the ability to coordinate with business, engineering, IT, vendors, and offshore teams.

You will own the integrated project plan, drive requirements workshops, and manage risks, issues, and milestones while ensuring quality and customer acceptance across locations and time zones.

Qualifications

• Minimum 15 years of experience in program management for semiconductor MES and factory automation.
• Proven ownership of end-to-end delivery planning, scope, schedule, budget, resources, quality, risks, dependencies, and commitments.
• Strong customer-facing and stakeholder-management skills across onsite and offshore teams.
• Working knowledge of semiconductor manufacturing processes, Camstar/Opcenter MES, factory automation, equipment integration, and SECS/GEM standards.
• Experience leading requirements, fit-gap analyses, governance, development, testing, deployment, and handover.
• Ability to establish governance, status reporting, RAID, change control, escalation paths, and exec communication.
• Strong understanding of MES architecture and equipment/host integrations, recipe mamagement, scheduling, data collection, SPC.
• PM tools proficiency; Agile/Hybrid delivery; PMP/JIRA preferred.
• Excellent documentation, testing governance, analytical, negotiation, and decision-making skills.
• Serve as the primary onsite customer contact and own day-to-day delivery governance.
• Build and maintain integrated project plans, milestones, and recovery actions.
• Coordinate with onsite and offshore teams to ensure timely decisions and delivery readiness.
• Lead requirements workshops, fit-gap reviews, alignment, prioritization, and change control.
• Drive execution across design, dev, integration, testing, UAT, deployment, and support transition.
• Track risks, issues, dependencies, actions, decisions; escalate blockers with impact.
• Provide weekly status, dashboards, forecasts, and steering updates.
• Ensure deliverables meet quality, documentation, validation, security, and acceptance.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end project lifecycle from requirements to handover.
• Coordinate onsite and offshore teams to ensure timely decisions and issue resolution.
• Drive execution across design, development, integration, testing, UAT, deployment, and support.
• Provide weekly status, dashboards, and executive summaries.

Skills

15+ years exp

Delivery governance

Stakeholder mgmt

MES & SECS/GEM

End-to-end lifecycle

Governance & reporting

MES integrations

PM tools

Analytical & governance

Onsite customer lead

Project plan & milestones

Cross-team coordination

Requirements workshops

Delivery execution

Risk/issue mgmt

Status reporting

Quality & acceptance

Knowledge transfer

Tools

JIRA

Job description

Q1 Technologies, Inc. seeks an accomplished program manager for semiconductor MES and factory automation projects in the Fremont area. The role demands deep onsite project leadership, end-to-end governance, and the ability to coordinate with business, engineering, IT, vendors, and offshore teams.

You will own the integrated project plan, drive requirements workshops, and manage risks, issues, and milestones while ensuring quality and customer acceptance across locations and time zones.