Manufacturing Engineering Manager

Overview

Manufacturing Engineering Manager position at Entegris in Bedford, MA. The role leads a team of engineers responsible for Safety, Quality, and high-yield production operations. The focus is sustaining and continuously improving existing manufacturing processes through hands-on engineering on the floor, developing mature work cells with robust process controls (FMEAs, control plans, response checklists, return-to-service guidelines), and training production teams to uphold the highest quality expectations.

The leader owns sustaining factory requirements including yield improvement, MOC governance, Quality guidelines, non-conformance management, manufacturing documentation, control plan maturity, and overall process stability. The role ensures manufacturing excursions are addressed with rigorous root-cause analysis and sustainable corrective actions to prevent recurrence.

Ideal candidates bring strong technical depth, disciplined problem-solving, and excellent leadership to build and guide a high-performing engineering team that drives process maturity, quality excellence, and operational reliability.

• Model exceptional safety behaviors and coach the engineering team to design processes that prioritize safe operation, ergonomics, and risk reduction.
• Enhance factory safety by identifying ergonomic risks and eliminating high-risk tasks through process optimization, redesign, and automation.
• Lead or support safety investigations from a process engineering standpoint, ensuring effective containment, root cause identification, and sustainable corrective actions.
• Lead a set of Engineers, review workload on a frequent basis, prioritize workload over business requirements, and ensure engineers are set up for success.
• Serve as the primary escalation point for factory process excursions, maintaining daily process stability to protect productivity and throughput.
• Identify critical manufacturing variables, reduce process variability, and uphold robust statistical process controls.
• Advance and standardize SPC practices across the factory with clearly defined control limits, reaction plans, and follow-up actions.
• Drive engineering ownership of comprehensive RCAs for yield loss events and process excursions, ensuring permanent corrective actions are implemented.
• Deploy containment actions rapidly, verify effectiveness with clear criteria, and provide timely progress updates to leadership.
• Lead continuous yield improvement efforts using data-driven analysis, SPC signals, and structured problem-solving methodologies.
• Chair Change Control to ensure all changes are rigorously evaluated to prevent customer-impacting excursions.
• Maintain site quality policies and standards, FMEAs, and product control plans to ensure compliance and consistent execution across the engineering team.
• Support customer quality engineers as the primary point of contact for customer requirements and requests.
• Manage customer complaints and support 8D investigations to identify root causes, present findings to customers and management, and prevent recurrence.
• Conduct routine Gemba walks to verify adherence to the Plan of Record (POR) and drive operational discipline.
• Partner with Operations to strengthen product quality through effective training, validation, and cross-functional alignment.
• Engage early in NPI programs, supporting seamless transfer into high-volume manufacturing.
• Collaborate on capital investments, ensuring critical capital projects are deployed and aligned with manufacturing needs.
• Ensure all metrology tools meet required standards by managing GR&R studies, maintaining compliance with quality policies, and performing LTS reviews for metrology tool health.

• BS or MS in Chemical, Mechanical Engineering or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated leadership skills with the ability to influence, guide, and mentor engineers and operations personnel.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capability, including statistical analysis and structured troubleshooting methods.
• Strong background in SPC and Quality.
• Excellent documentation and technical writing skills.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to present technical information clearly to executives, peers, and customers.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced manufacturing environment and manage multiple priorities.
• Strong project management skills and ability to lead cross-functional teams.
• High vacuum coating, machining and ion implant experience is a plus.

• 10+ years of experience in manufacturing engineering, ideally in the semiconductor or precision materials industry.
• Proven experience leading complex investigations, implementing process control systems, and improving stability and capability.
• Expertise with Lean, Six Sigma, SPC, FMEA, and other structured problem-solving tools.
• Demonstrated success leading cross-functional initiatives and mentoring engineering talent.
• Understanding of semiconductor manufacturing processes and cleanroom…