Sr. Substrate Supplier Engineering and Operations Lead

Intel Corporation; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Intel Corporation seeks an experienced supply chain and process improvement expert to shape our semiconductor manufacturing roadmap and drive quality, cost, and yield improvements across multi-site operations. The role emphasizes cross-functional collaboration with suppliers and internal teams to close gaps between roadmap needs and manufacturing capabilities.

The ideal candidate brings 15+ years in semiconductor manufacturing environments, strong analytical and leadership skills, and proven

Qualifications

• BS/MS/PhD in Science or Engineering with 15+ years in semiconductor fab or related manufacturing.
• Deep knowledge of semiconductor fabrication, substrates, and assembly/test processes.
• Strong SPC, process development, and operations management.

Responsibilities

• Support leadership to improve supply chain and logistics strategies.
• Define inspection methods, cost control, and yield optimization.
• Define roadmap capabilities and benchmark emerging tech.
• Lead supplier selections and ensure compliance with specs.
• Establish KPIs and drive root-cause analysis for supply chain issues.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Cross-functional teamwork

Effective communication

Statistical Process Control

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Science or Engineering

Tools

Quality management systems

Job description

Job Details:

Job Description:

• Supports management/senior leadership to incorporate process and quality improvements in Intel’s supply chain and logistics strategy.
• Defines material inspection methodology, conducts studies related to cost control, process control, and production yield, and implements plans and programs to optimize supply chain.
• Supports product long range plan development by defining nextgeneration methodology capabilities to support Intel’s supply chain roadmap.
• Explores and benchmarks emerging technology in the industry.
• Contributes to Intel’s future technology definition and requirements.
• Highlights gaps between roadmap strategy, manufacturing capability, and market demands and recommends solutions to addresses those gaps.
• Tracks supply demand trends, conducts root cause analysis to find opportunities for process and quality improvements, and collaborates with supply chain leads to implement solutions.
• Leads supplier selections for new business in partnership with commodity managers and technical/quality partners and drives product and purchase specification content to ensure commodity performance compliance.
• Performs alternate sourcing risk mitigation for single sourced commodities.
• Establishes control standards, determines KPIs, monitors performance against targets, and drives root cause analysis for supply chain issues to arrive at solutions.
• Drives supplier process window validation activities on critical process modules through all stages of development.
• Drives supplier improvements on quality, reliability, yield, and cost.
• Maintains quality standards and systems, creating relevant specifications to minimize variability and subjectivity to align with operational capability requirements. Leads quality excursion management and drives failure mode analysis with suppliers.

Qualifications:

• BS, MS, or PhD in Science or Engineering fields with a minimum of 15 years of experience in Semiconductor Fab, Substrates or Mother Boards or Assembly Test development or manufacturing environment is required.
• In-depth knowledge is required in Semiconductor Fab, Substrate or Mother Boards or Assembly Test manufacturing process,
• Process development and optimization, manufacturing operations management, Analytical Problem Solving, Statistical Process Control (SPC)
• Knowledge, hand-on skills and experience in quality management, data analytics, raw materials management, cleanroom operations, foreign material control and supplier management will be a very strong added advantage.
• Fluent communication and articulation skills in business level English, strong presentation skills and ability to effectively communicate and interact with internally and supplier’s management highly required.
• Strong ability to work in cross functional teams are required.

Job Type:

Experienced Hire

Shift:

Shift 1 (Korea, Republic of)

Primary Location:

Virtual South Korea

Posting Statement:

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.

Position of Trust

N/A

Work Model for this Role

This role is available as a fully home-based and generally would require you to attend Intel sites only occasionally based on business need. However, you must live and work from the country specified in the job posting, in which Intel has a legal presence. Due to legal regulations, remote work from any other country is unfortunately not permitted. * Job posting details (such as work model, location or time type) are subject to change.

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