Senior Project Engineer: Contract-Manufacturing Lead

Veeco Instruments Inc; Horsham (PA); On-site; USD 107,000 - 156,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision

401(k) with Company Match

Holiday, Vacation, and Sick Time

Tuition Reimbursement

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Job summary

Veeco Instruments Inc. seeks a Senior Project Engineer to own contract-manufacturing delivery from order through customer acceptance and shipment. You will establish, transfer, and scale CM capabilities, selecting partners, building out lines, and ramping to meet commitments.

You will shape the operating model, readiness gates, risk visibility, and issue-resolution practices across high-value semiconductor applications, including wet etch and clean systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field with 8+ years experience; a master’s degree with 6+ years; a doctoral degree with 3+ years.
• Demonstrated ownership of at least one contract-manufacturing launch, product transfer, capacity expansion, or production-line buildout from planning through qualification and production ramp.
• Experience delivering complex capital equipment across engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, quality, and customer requirements.
• Experience managing integrated schedules, dependencies, contractual deliverables, risks, and acceptance criteria from order or project authorization through delivery.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally up to 25%.

Responsibilities

• Lead contract-manufacturing projects from approved business case through production launch, including new partner onboarding, product transfer, line expansion, facility or production-cell buildout, tooling, test infrastructure, qualification, and ramp to target output.
• Own the integrated delivery plan for configured capital equipment, connecting customer commitments to engineering release, bill-of-material readiness, supplier capacity, material availability, assembly, test, inspection, and shipment milestones.
• Establish executable build readiness with each contract manufacturer by defining scope boundaries, deliverables, floor-space and utility needs, staffing and training plans, production documentation, quality controls, test methods, acceptance criteria, and contingency plans.
• Govern contract-manufacturer performance through measurable schedule, quality, cost, capacity, and recovery commitments; lead operating reviews and elevate decisions before issues affect customer delivery.
• Drive product-transfer and configuration control across Veeco and partner teams, ensuring drawings, bills of material, routings, work instructions, inspection plans, approved changes, and as-built records remain complete and aligned.
• Lead first-article, factory-acceptance, customer source-inspection, and shipment-readiness reviews; close technical findings, nonconformances, documentation gaps, and compliance actions before release.
• Provide concise executive and customer-facing updates that distinguish status, risk, root cause, recovery action, decision required, owner, and due date.

Skills

Contract-manufacturer governance

Production transfers & builds

Cross-functional leadership

Supply chain integration

Data-driven decision making

Risk management & recovery

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering

Master’s degree in engineering

Doctoral degree in engineering

Tools

SAP

SolidWorks

Microsoft 365

Job description

Veeco Instruments Inc. seeks a Senior Project Engineer to own contract-manufacturing delivery from order through customer acceptance and shipment. You will establish, transfer, and scale CM capabilities, selecting partners, building out lines, and ramping to meet commitments.

You will shape the operating model, readiness gates, risk visibility, and issue-resolution practices across high-value semiconductor applications, including wet etch and clean systems.