Tool Install Ramp Manager

Springtide; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Springtide, located in Santa Clara, California, is seeking a Tool Install Ramp Manager. This full-time role involves leading semiconductor tool installation and ramp activities. The successful candidate will oversee multiple fab areas, ensuring alignment with production goals.

With over 7 years of experience and a relevant degree, you will manage complex coordination efforts, develop startup plans, and ensure readiness for production. Springtide offers a dynamic and collaborative work environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in semiconductor manufacturing or tool installation.
• Strong understanding of factory integration processes.
• Ability to manage complex coordination activities.

Responsibilities

• Lead coordination of tool installation and ramp activities.
• Develop and manage installation and startup plans.
• Oversee tool delivery, logistics, and integration.

Skills

Semiconductor manufacturing

Equipment integration

Project management

Technical documentation

Cross-functional coordination

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related field

Job description

At Springtide, a division of IPS (a Berkshire Hathaway company), we listen, understand, and lean into complex challenges to unlock new solutions and realize opportunities with our partners. Distinguished by our agility, creativity, expertise, and owner’s perspective, we deliver faster time-to-market and longer-lasting value, enabling you to do more. We are seeking a Tool Install Ramp Manager to work full-time on-site with our client located near Santa Clara, California.

Position Responsibilities

• Lead owner-side coordination of semiconductor tool installation and ramp activities across multiple fab areas, aligning plans with production goals and operational priorities.
• Develop and manage integrated installation, startup, sequencing, and handover plans with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Support factory expansion, capacity ramp, technology transfer, and production startup initiatives.
• Establish and maintain equipment Basis of Design (BOD) documentation for assigned toolsets and programs.
• Collaborate with Equipment, Facilities, Manufacturing, and OEMs to define utilities, layouts, and facility interfaces, ensuring alignment with infrastructure capabilities.
• Support design and constructability reviews from an owner/operator perspective.
• Coordinate with equipment vendors and OEM suppliers throughout the project lifecycle.
• Integrate purchase orders into execution planning and track key deliverables (manuals, drawings, specs, startup procedures, training, spares).
• Ensure documentation completeness and coordinate schedules, FAT, delivery, startup support, and field service.
• Serve as the integration lead across engineering, manufacturing, construction, EHS, supply chain, operations, and vendors.
• Facilitate coordination meetings, resolve technical issues, and address scope gaps, interface conflicts, and installation readiness challenges.
• Oversee tool delivery, logistics, move-in, hookup readiness, and OEM startup activities.
• Monitor installation progress, escalate risks, and support qualification, cleanroom integration, and production readiness.
• Lead equipment turnover and handover activities, ensuring completion of sign-offs, punch lists, as-builts, maintenance documentation, training, and spare parts.
• Coordinate final acceptance between vendors, engineering teams, and manufacturing operations.
• Support manufacturing ramp and operational readiness by coordinating startup sequencing and minimizing production disruption.
• Identify and mitigate risks to production ramp, startup schedules, and transition into sustained operations.

Qualifications & Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Industrial Technology, or related field.
• 7+ years of experience in semiconductor manufacturing, equipment integration, facilities engineering, or tool installation program management.
• Experience working in owner/operator roles within semiconductor fabrication environments.
• Strong understanding of semiconductor manufacturing equipment installation and factory integration processes.
• Experience coordinating directly with semiconductor OEM vendors and internal engineering organizations.
• Strong technical documentation and organizational skills.
• Ability to manage complex cross-functional coordination activities in fast-paced fab environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting semiconductor fab startup or major capacity expansion programs.
• Familiarity with semiconductor facility systems and cleanroom infrastructure.
• Experience with equipment-based design development, tool utility coordination, factory integration planning, turnover and handover management, equipment qualification support, and manufacturing ramp coordination.
• Knowledge of semiconductor equipment lifecycle management processes.

About Us

Springtide Project Services is a full-service technical consultancy providing Architectural, Engineering, Construction, Project and Program Management, and Commissioning services to advanced technology industries, including the semiconductor, mission-critical data center, renewable energy, electric vehicle, and display sectors.

We bring deep subject matter expertise as well as proven, reliable execution experience to bear on complex projects. The name Springtide represents our culture and values as an agile organization providing fresh, dynamic, and innovative solutions to help our clients optimize their project outcomes. We are energetic, driven, and curious, and take a sophisticated approach to every client project, enabling a critical scope to be executed; we walk in our clients’ shoes, we listen, we are curious, and we excel in a thriving collaborative culture, proactively leaning into challenges with a solutions mindset. We focus on collaborative engagement, alignment, and optimized execution, enabling our clients to do more and to achieve their business success. Springtide is a division of IPS-Integrated Project Services, LLC.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment at Springtide without regard to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic predisposition or carrier status, veteran, marital, or citizenship status, or any other status protected by law. Springtide is proud to be an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer.