SFC (MES) Domain Leader – Wafer Fabs

Texas Instruments Incorporated; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Texas Instruments Incorporated seeks a Domain Leader for Shop Floor Control (SFC) / MES to define and execute the strategic vision across TI’s wafer fabrication facilities. This role leads a high-performing engineering organization and partners with manufacturing and IT leadership to enable autonomous, AI-driven MES-driven decision-making and real-time execution.

The role reports to the Vice President of Manufacturing Solutions and focuses on delivering reliable, scalable MES capabilities,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related discipline.
• 12+ years of experience in manufacturing systems, industrial software, or MES.
• 7+ years leading engineering organizations.

Responsibilities

• Define the long-term vision and technology strategy for Shop Floor Control (MES) across all wafer fabrication facilities.
• Develop and maintain a multi-year roadmap aligned with Smart Manufacturing objectives.
• Identify opportunities to modernize MES architecture, improve scalability, resilience, and user experience.
• Evaluate emerging technologies including AI, event-driven architectures, and agent-based factory operations.
• Own delivery of SFC program commitments across multiple manufacturing sites.
• Drive Agile execution, backlog prioritization, release planning, and continuous delivery.
• Build organizational capability through hiring, coaching, mentoring, and succession planning.

Skills

MES

SFC

Engineering leadership

Strategic vision

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related discipline

Job description

You will lead the team responsible for the digital nervous system of TI’s wafer fabs—ensuring every lot, tool, operator, and manufacturing event is orchestrated through a modern, scalable, and resilient Shop Floor Control platform. Your work will directly enable the evolution from highly automated factories toautonomous, AI-driven manufacturing, where MES serves as the foundation for intelligent decision-making, real-time execution, and continuous optimization.

Position Summary

TheSFC (Shop Floor Control / Manufacturing Execution Systems) Domain Leaderis responsible for defining and executing the strategic vision for Manufacturing Execution Systems across Texas Instruments’ wafer fabrication facilities. This leader owns the SFC technology roadmap, drives modernization of factory execution capabilities, and ensures reliable delivery of business outcomes that improve factory productivity, quality, and operational excellence.

This role combines strategic leadership, technical direction, and execution oversight. The successful candidate will build and lead a high-performing engineering organization, partner closely with manufacturing and IT leadership, and ensure that SFC capabilities enable the long-term vision of autonomous semiconductor manufacturing.

This role reports directly into the Vice President of Manufacturing Solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define the long-term vision and technology strategy for Shop Floor Control (MES) across all wafer fabrication facilities.
• Develop and maintain a multi-year roadmap aligned with Smart Manufacturing objectives.
• Identify opportunities to modernize MES architecture, improve scalability, resilience, and user experience.
• Evaluate emerging technologies including AI, event-driven architectures, and agent-based factory operations.

Delivery Excellence

• Own delivery of SFC program commitments across multiple manufacturing sites.
• Ensure predictable execution of roadmaps, budgets, milestones, and business outcomes.
• Drive Agile execution, backlog prioritization, release planning, and continuous delivery.
• Remove execution risks and proactively manage dependencies across manufacturing, equipment automation, and infrastructure teams.

Manufacturing Partnership

• Partner with Fab Operations, Manufacturing Engineering, Process Engineering, and Factory Automation teams to understand operational priorities.
• Translate manufacturing needs into scalable MES capabilities. Influence cross-functional decisions that improve manufacturing performance.
• Drive standardization while accommodating site-specific business requirements where appropriate.
• Build trusted relationships with factory leadership and executive stakeholders. Communicate roadmap, priorities, risks, and investment opportunities.
• Lead the global SFC engineering organization responsible for wafer fab execution systems.
• Build organizational capability through hiring, coaching, mentoring, and succession planning.
• Establish engineering standards, architecture principles, and software development best practices.
• Foster a culture of innovation, ownership, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.

Technology Leadership

Provide technical leadership for capabilities including:

• Lot tracking and genealogy
• WIP management
• Dispatching integration
• Recipe and process enforcement
• Equipment integration
• Electronic work instructions
• Hold and release management
• Data collection and traceability
• Factory event processing
• Manufacturing analytics integration
• Drive modernization of legacy MES platforms.
• Define future-state architecture leveraging APIs, event streaming, cloud-native technologies where appropriate, and AI-enabled workflows.
• Ensure high availability, cybersecurity, scalability, and disaster recovery capabilities.
• Champion reusable platforms and common services across factories.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related discipline.
• 12+ years of experience in manufacturing systems, industrial software, or MES.
• 7+ years leading engineering organizations.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience supporting semiconductor wafer fabrication manufacturing.
• Strong understanding of Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) and Shop Floor Control.
• Demonstrated success leading large-scale enterprise software initiatives.
• Experience managing cross-functional teams and complex stakeholder environments.

The successful leader will demonstrate:

• Strategic thinking
• Strong technical judgment
• Ability to influence without authority
• Talent development and coaching
• Cross-functional collaboration

Success Measures

Success in this role will be measured by:

• Successful delivery of SFC roadmap commitments
• Manufacturing stakeholder satisfaction
• Factory productivity improvements enabled by MES capabilities
• Platform reliability and system availability
• Reduction in production-impacting incidents
• Increased engineering velocity and predictability
• Modernization of legacy MES capabilities
• Adoption of standardized solutions across fabs
• Development and retention of a high-performing engineering team

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