About the role
AI summarisedThe Director of Front End Operations Central Team leads global efforts to optimize manufacturing capability and efficiency in etch, CMP, and wet process areas. This role drives industry benchmark methods at lowest cost, aligns global sites on strategy and roadmap, manages supplier relationships, ensures process safety, and oversees capital business processes like Tool of Record and Manufacturing Tool Evaluation Program. The position requires strong leadership to develop teams, influence without authority, and deliver continuous improvement through benchmarking and innovation.
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Key Responsibilities
- Drive improvements in manufacturing capability and efficiency in areas of responsibility
- Drive sites globally to ensure alignment on strategy and roadmap to achieve area objectives
- Ensure strategy and roadmap are aligned to improvement in big rock performance
- Define equipment roadmap to meet requirements and track alignment decisions
- Hold accountability for decisions when sites deviate from the roadmap/path
- Interface with procurement global supplier account managers to ensure technical requirements feed into procurement strategies
- Interface with corporate EHSS and site Process Hazard Analysis engineers to ensure process safety requirements are met
- Interface with strategic suppliers to ensure priorities are aligned to operations objectives and area strategy/roadmap
- Leverage suppliers as resources for Operations
- Deliver Industry Benchmark Methods at the Lowest Cost in Area(s) of Responsibility
- Execute quarterly internal benchmarking to identify gaps in performance
- Prioritize gaps to meet site and corporate business plan needs
Requirements
- Proven ability to collaborate globally and influence by indirect leadership to drive resourcing to critical projects
- Proven capability in dealing with complexity and utilizing resources effectively to bring clarity to required actions
- Record of performance excellence for current area of responsibility
- Recognized as having demonstrated successful leadership characteristics in present and past jobs
- Viewed by current reports as an excellent mentor, team builder and motivator
- Demonstrated ability to solve problems across multi-functional groups, both within and outside department/Site
- Experience managing large, multi-layer groups that encompass a variety of disciplines
- Proficiency in managing through systems, informing, organizational agility, dealing with ambiguity, and listening
- Champion of Micron Values and core competencies
- Bachelor's Degree in science, engineering, technology or related field of study
- 10+ years experience in semiconductor manufacturing industry
- 4+ years at Management/Leadership at or above Senior Manager level
- 4+ years at Technical experience at or above Member of Technical Staff (MTS) equivalent