Night Shift Manufacturing Leader — Operational Excellence

onsemi; Hopewell Junction (NY); On-site; USD 102,000 - 173,000; Full time

Job summary

onsemi’s East Fishkill 300mm Wafer Fab seeks a Manufacturing Operations Manager to own factory performance for an assigned shift, balancing safety, quality, delivery, and cost in real time. This role demands decisive leadership, end-to-end ownership, and the ability to drive issues to resolution rather than only identifying them.

You will lead shift teams, translate targets into execution plans, perform root-cause analysis, and ensure continuity across shifts while upholding standards and

Qualifications

• Experience in semiconductor manufacturing.
• 5+ years of leadership experience in manufacturing or high-reliability operational environments.
• Proven ability to make sound decisions under time pressure and ambiguity.
• Strong track record of leading people through problems, change, and accountability.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver shift-level performance results across equipment uptime, throughput, quality, cycle time, and cost.
• Translate daily factory targets into clear, prioritized execution plans for the shift.
• Identify deviations from plan early and take decisive corrective action to recover performance.
• Make real-time decisions balancing output, product quality, equipment health, and operational risk.
• Remain accountable for issues through resolution, including ensuring continuity across shifts and functions.
• Lead on-shift problem definition, containment, and recovery for equipment, process, staffing, and material constraints.
• Bring forward problems with clear analysis, options, and recommendations when cross-functional support is required.
• Hold engineering, maintenance, and support organizations accountable for meeting commitments that impact shift performance.
• Ensure lessons learned are documented and translated into improved standard work, controls, or escalation criteria.
• Lead technicians and operators with clear expectations for performance, behavior, and ownership.
• Actively coach individuals to solve problems at the lowest responsible level.
• Ensure staffing, skill mix, certifications, and coverage align with factory needs.
• Develop future leaders by deliberately building capability, delegating responsibility, and providing direct feedback.
• Address performance gaps promptly and professionally; reinforce consequences for repeated non-standard behaviors.
• Serve as the authoritative operational leader and decision point for the shift.
• Lead disciplined shift handovers, ensuring clear communication of factory status and performance versus target; open risks and degraded conditions; ownership and next actions for unresolved issues.
• Ensure continuity of execution across shifts by enforcing standards and closing gaps.
• Drive consistent use of metrics, standard work, and accountability mechanisms to improve factory performance.
• Demonstrate strong cost awareness in daily decisions, including labor efficiency, downtime, scrap, and rework.
• Challenge recurring issues, workarounds, and inefficiencies; push for systemic fixes rather than short-term containment.

Skills

Semiconductor manufacturing

Leadership

Decision making

Problem solving

People leadership

Job description

onsemi’s East Fishkill 300mm Wafer Fab seeks a Manufacturing Operations Manager to own factory performance for an assigned shift, balancing safety, quality, delivery, and cost in real time. This role demands decisive leadership, end-to-end ownership, and the ability to drive issues to resolution rather than only identifying them.

You will lead shift teams, translate targets into execution plans, perform root-cause analysis, and ensure continuity across shifts while upholding standards and