Director, Front End Operations Team, HVM Process Equipment Engineering

Overview

Our vision is to transform how the world uses information to enrich life for all. Micron Technology is a world leader in innovating memory and storage solutions that accelerate the transformation of information into intelligence, inspiring the world to learn, communicate and advance faster than ever.

As the Director, Front End Operations Central Team, HVM Central Process Equipment Engineer, Etch/CMP/Wet at Micron Technology, Inc., you will be responsible for driving improvements and breakthroughs to manufacturing capability, delivering industry benchmark methods at lowest cost, and managing the execution of global business processes in the unit process areas of responsibility. You will implement this by focusing on manufacturing big rock performance optimization and ensuring priorities are aligned to the Micron business plan and Strategic Objective requirements across manufacturing sites.

Your objective is to employ global internal and external resources to define and enable equipment roadmaps, implement business processes, and drive network process and equipment alignment to achieve world-class manufacturing performances. Examples include using suppliers to achieve benchmark performance, discovering and implementing equipment and process safety best methods (BKM), equipment utilization optimization, thru-put optimization, cash cost optimization, and continuous improvement project prioritization and execution to project timelines.

• Drive improvements in manufacturing capability and efficiency in your 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 and ensure equipment roadmap is defined to meet those requirements; track alignment decisions and hold accountability to those decisions in cases where sites deviate from the roadmap/path
• Collaborate with procurement global supplier account managers to ensure technical requirements feed into procurement strategies for suppliers
• Collaborate with corporate EHSS and site Process Hazard Analysis engineers to ensure process safety requirements are met
• Work with strategic suppliers to ensure priorities are aligned to operations objectives and area(s) strategy/roadmap. Leverage suppliers as resources for Operations
• Deliver Industry Benchmark Methods at the Lowest Cost in Your Area(s) of Responsibility
• Implement quarterly internal benchmarking to identify gaps in performance for your area(s) of responsibility. Prioritize those gaps to meet site and corporate business plan needs, and focus resources (internally across network and/or externally with Suppliers) to close the gaps
• Manage and implement Tool of Record (TOR) and Manufacturing Tool Evaluation Program (MTEP) requirements to ensure Capital business process and MOR runs effectively for your area(s)
• Manage and implement to Executive Review Meeting (ERM) priorities/projects and drive Operations Roadmap for your area(s) of responsibility;
  Leverage suppliers to meet performance requirements
• Demonstrate Leadership
• Embrace benchmarking and deliver strategies to close the gaps
• Challenge complacency and do not let market conditions give a false sense of reality
• Understand the competitor’s culture, attitude and capabilities
• Ignite passion in people to achieve the impossible
• Dare to set high targets, expect innovation and breakthroughs
• Give honest, tough, but productive feedback to the team, and be willing to receive it yourself
• Challenge others and be willing to stand for something
• Have the courage to turn a crisis into an opportunity
• Lead from the front and lead by example
• Cultivate a habit of winning. Winning breeds confidence
• Find top talent willing to take risk and support them in doing the outstanding
• Develop teams and team members to enable them to reach their full potential and reward them accordingly
• Support team members with coaches and mentors who push the team outside their comfort zone

• 10+ years experience in semiconductor manufacturing industry, and 4+ years at any of the following levels
• Bachelor's Degree in science, engineering,…