Semiconductor Quality Operations Manager R58395

Samsung Austin Semiconductor is one of the most advanced semiconductor manufacturing facilities in the world and an integral part of Central Texas for more than 26 years, driving job generation, economic impact and engagement with the surrounding community. 

Samsung Austin Semiconductor serves a global customer base with broad semiconductor process technology offerings that impact everyday life including mobile, graphic, consumer, networking/high performance computing, Internet of Things, RF and automotive. Through successful collaborations with foundry customers and a continuous drive to develop the most cutting-edge technologies, Samsung Austin Semiconductor has become a major player in the foundry market. Samsung Austin Semiconductor’s technology portfolio ranges from 65nm to 28nm using planar transistor technology to the more advanced 14nm 3D FinFet technology.
 

With more than 3,300 employees, 2.45 million square feet of floor space, and more than 600+ acres in land holdings, Samsung Austin Semiconductor’s economic impact in 2021 generated $6.3 billion into Austin’s economy through salaries and other expenditures. Plus, that same year, its parent company, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd announced a $17 billion investment to boost semiconductor production capacity at a new site in Taylor, Texas. This is in addition to the $18 billion invested in Samsung Austin Semiconductor’s Austin, Texas campus, since 1996 -- making it one of the largest direct foreign investments in United States history. 

Samsung Austin Semiconductor is a premier and growing employer who provides a great place to work, is committed to environmental stewardship and being a good corporate citizen.  Our employees are the key to our success and we invest in our people with competitive compensation & benefit packages, career development opportunities and programs that enhance physical, emotional and intellectual well-being.  Our employees work at various locations throughout Central Texas including the main plant on East Parmer Lane in northeast Austin, a satellite office near Pflugerville and the construction site in Taylor, Texas. Learn more at www.samsung.com/us/sas.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Job Summary/Overview:  The Operations Quality Manager position is responsible for leading the MQR team to contain and assist in timely disposition of material impacted by excursions/inline abnormal processing and ensure thorough risk assessment and communication with all required stakeholders for safe disposition. As well, define business process that aid in excursion management, clear communication and escape prevention:
• Outgoing Quality Assurance: conduct final wafer inspections before shipment, escalate new/trending issues to fab and support inspection to meet outgoing quality demands. Ensure customer compliance is met for final defect inspection, ability to communicate any irregularities.
• Ensure profit margins by reducing inefficiencies and operations errors by proactively improving capability and capacity of operations through new methods, tools or skills.
• Contain and assist in disposition for abnormally processed, customer impacting large scale events within the factory. Cross site collaboration to find clear root cause understanding and transparent communication with S1 as needed.
• Utilize quality skills to help identify true root cause and help place well thought out countermeasure for issue recurrence.

Specific Job Duties:   Lead deployment of large-scale projects that are cross-functional in nature and have visibility to company executives.
Use resources and data to identify risks to fab operations and customers.
Collaborate with engineering, manufacturing, support group counterparts, and executives to support on-time delivery while minimizing impact to customer.
Problem solve complex situations and navigate the political landscape to accomplish results.
Analyze risk and make recommendations to help improve quality performance for each department’s business processes and programs.
Present the systems quality risk key messages, strategy, and execution progress to top company leadership on a weekly or monthly basis.

Shift: 1st Shift

Skills and Qualifications:

Education, Training, Certification(s) and Minimum years of experience required:  B.S. in Engineering or related Sciences (Math, Chemistry, Physics).
Minimum 10 years’ experience in semiconductor high volume manufacturing.
Minimum 5 years’ experience with HVM Foundry Semiconductor or Automotive manufacturing quality.
Minimum of 5 years of experience in a leadership position with direct reports.
Experience driving company-wide quality improvement initiatives.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, Software, and Tools: Expert knowledge of 14nm-65nm LSI Fab processes.
Experience in HVM Semiconductor processing with >50 products mix running at a given time.
Semiconductor processing
Problem Solving/Analysis.
Quality Management systems.
Communication Proficiency (including executive-level data communication).
Employee development.
Strategic thinking.