Project Manager - Microelectronics

Aquatech; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Aquatech seeks a Microelectronics Project Manager to lead technical execution for global semiconductor and data center projects. You will coordinate multidisciplinary teams across process utilities, ZLD systems, and startup activities, ensuring delivery within scope and performance targets.

This role emphasizes engineering integration, startup readiness, and customer-facing leadership in a matrix organization, with opportunities to work on UPW, WWT, and other critical systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering and minimum 10 years in industrial projects.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams across design, procurement, construction, commissioning and turnover.
• Strong communication and troubleshooting in matrix organizations.
• Experience with semiconductor or high-tech manufacturing facilities is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical execution strategy and ensure cross-functional alignment across global teams.
• Serve as customer-facing technical leader to translate needs into technical solutions.
• Drive risk mitigation, design reviews, and constructability assessments.
• Support startup, qualification, and operational turnover activities.
• Coordinate with process, mechanical, electrical, automation, controls, and construction disciplines.

Skills

Technical leadership

Project management

Multidisciplinary coordination

Customer interface

Global execution

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Tools

PFDs & P&IDs

Process utilities knowledge

Inspection & startup planning

Job description

Overview

At Aquatech, we tackle the challenges of critical minerals, water scarcity, and complexity by leveraging technology, expertise, and financing to deliver comprehensive solutions that enable competitive, sustainable infrastructure. As a leading global provider of water and industrial process technology solutions, we help the world's most recognized companies achieve their sustainability and operational goals by implementing innovative approaches for water reuse, desalination, minimal and zero liquid discharge, and critical minerals recovery. Learn more at www.aquatech.com

Aquatech supports some of the world’s most technically demanding industries including semiconductor manufacturing, advanced packaging, solar manufacturing, and data centers. These facilities require highly reliable utility infrastructure including Ultra Pure Water (UPW), wastewater treatment (WWT), reclaim systems, thermal utility systems, chemical systems, and Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) systems.

Aquatech has an immediate need for a full‑time Microelectronics Project Manager to support global semiconductor, advanced packaging, solar manufacturing, and data center projects. This role is responsible for providing technical leadership, execution alignment, and integrated project delivery support for highly complex industrial utility systems associated with advanced manufacturing facilities. The successful candidate will possess strong technical and field execution experience across multiple utility disciplines including UPW, WWT, reclaim, thermal systems, process utilities, and ZLD systems.

Unlike a traditional Project Manager role focused primarily on commercial management and project controls, this position serves as a technical execution leader responsible for engineering integration, managing teams across the globe with discrete scope, delivery schedules, cost targets, startup readiness, operational success, multidisciplinary coordination, and customer technical interface responsibilities across global matrix organizations.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead technical execution strategy and program alignment for microelectronics utility infrastructure projects.
• Serve as a customer‑facing technical leader, communicating customer needs and requests throughout the global organization and coordinating multidisciplinary technical teams including process, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation & controls (I&C), automation, and construction organizations.
• Drive technical decision‑making, issue resolution, and execution alignment across global execution teams.
• Support engineering, procurement, fabrication, construction, commissioning, startup, qualification, and operational turnover activities.
• Participate in risk mitigation planning, constructability reviews, and execution strategy development.
• Support development of scalable execution methodologies, standards, and best practices for microelectronics projects.

Engineering and Execution Support

• Review and support development of PFDs, P&IDs, General Arrangements, equipment layouts, utility integration strategies, control philosophies, startup plans, and qualification documentation.
• Support engineering coordination between process, mechanical, electrical, automation, controls, and construction disciplines.
• Participate in design reviews, operability reviews, maintainability reviews, and technical risk assessments.
• Support procurement and vendor technical evaluations for semiconductor and high‑tech manufacturing applications.
• Evaluate system reliability, redundancy strategies, maintainability, operational flexibility, and lifecycle performance.

Construction, Startup, and Operational Readiness

• Coordinate field execution activities including installation reviews, field coordination, commissioning support, startup planning, and operational turnover.
• Coordinate closely with construction teams, startup teams, operations organizations, and customers.
• Support accelerated startup schedules and schedule recovery efforts as required.

Customer and Organizational Interface

• Serve as a customer‑facing technical leader for complex microelectronics projects.
• Interface directly with semiconductor, advanced packaging, solar manufacturing, and data center customers.
• Work effectively within matrix organizations across multiple disciplines and geographies.
• Support executive‑level customer communications, technical workshops, and design reviews.

Position Differentiation

This position differs from a traditional Project Manager role by focusing heavily on technical execution leadership, multidisciplinary engineering integration, startup and operational readiness, customer technical interface responsibilities, and development of repeatable semiconductor execution methodologies.

Benefits

Aquatech offers a comprehensive benefits package, including paid time off, company‑paid holidays, and a 401(k) plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).

Essential Functions

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed above and below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

Physical Job Demands

Lifting, carrying, moving, and exerting up to 50 lbs of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects, including the human body. May need to climb ladders and cannot be afraid of heights, and will need to wear personal protective equipment while on site. It involves sitting at a desk for extended periods and requires a high degree of concentration in a busy area.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Chemical, Electrical, Civil, or related discipline). Minimum of 10 years of relevant industrial experience.

Industries

• Semiconductor manufacturing
• Advanced packaging
• Solar manufacturing

Strong experience in multiple utility and process systems including UPW, WWT, reclaim systems, thermal utility systems, RO/membrane systems, chemical treatment systems, and ZLD. Experience supporting large‑scale industrial or semiconductor projects through design, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, startup, qualification, and operational turnover. Strong understanding of multidisciplinary engineering integration and matrix organizational execution. Strong technical leadership, communication, and troubleshooting capabilities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting semiconductor fab utility systems or advanced manufacturing facilities.
• Experience with EPC, design‑build, or integrated project delivery execution models.
• Experience with process mechanical systems, piping systems, and utility integration.
• Experience with instrumentation & controls (I&C), automation systems, SCADA systems, and electrical utility coordination.
• Experience supporting startup, commissioning, qualification, and operational readiness activities.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary technical teams and supporting accelerated project schedules.