Global Planning and Operations Escalation Manager

The Global Operations Group brings information systems, facilities, supply chain, logistics, and high-volume manufacturing together to drive the engine of our global business operations. We help Lam deliver industry-leading solutions with speed and efficiency, while actively supporting the resilient and profitable growth of Lam's business.

The Global Spares Planning Escalation Manager is responsible for leading end-to‑end management of high‑severity incidents, chronic issues, and escalated customer or stakeholder concerns across the Global Spares organization. This role ensures cross functional team formation, rapid containment, thorough root‑cause analysis, cross‑functional alignment, and implementation of long‑term corrective actions that improve operational stability and customer experience.

The position partners closely with Global Planning & Operations teams, Regional Spares, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Customer Operations, Product Groups and senior leadership to minimize business impact and prevent recurrence of systemic issues.

• Serve as single point accountability for critical business/customer critical escalations, ensuring timely, transparent communication and resolution.
• Lead cross‑functional response teams to drive coordinated actions for high‑severity operational issues.
• Assess escalation across technical, operational and commercial dimensions to balance priority across the team.
• Accurately document incidents, containment, root cause, and decisions.
• Executive communication and alignment.
• Cross-functional leadership without direct authority.
• Decision facilitation & tradeoff management.
• Monitor incident progress, remove barriers, and
  ** escalate risks
  ** as needed to ensure swift containment and recovery.

• Rapid Problem Framing (Signal>Noise): taking fragmented inputs and quickly framing the problem, blocking issue/decision, and business impact.
• Taking a systems approach throughout the semiconductor value chain allows issues and solutions to be assessed in terms of suppliers, factories, production, installation, customer process qualification, and customer FAB operations.
• Drive structured Root Cause Analysis (RCA) using industry‑standard methodologies (e.g., 8D, PS&DM, Five Whys, Fishbone).
• Develop, track, and validate corrective and preventative actions, ensuring long‑term fixes are implemented and sustained.
• Maintain a centralized repository of known issues, workarounds, best practices, and lessons learned.
• Partner with Planning, Operations, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Engineering, and leadership teams to ensure end‑to‑end process alignment.
• Facilitate post‑incident reviews, ensuring clear accountability and handoffs for remediation and continuous improvement activities.

• Provide clear, concise, and executive‑ready updates during live escalations and throughout incident resolution cycles.
• Publish detailed incident reports, RCA summaries, and postmortem documentation to drive organizational learning.
• Develop metrics, dashboards, and reporting mechanisms to track incident trends, performance, and improvement progress.
• Present insights and recommendations to leadership, influencing decisions that enhance service reliability and operational maturity.

• 7–10+ years of experience in technical support, operations, incident management, supply chain operations, or similar roles.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills with the ability to rapidly understand complex systems and processes.
• Demonstrated ability to lead teams and drive decision‑making in high‑pressure, time‑sensitive environments.
• Excellent…