EUV Program Manager

About the role

This position requires leadership, organization, and coordination in support of NY Creates Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography (EUV) program - a next-generation semiconductor research and development center, supporting the research and development of the world's most complex and powerful semiconductors.

Responsibilities

• Coordinating the executive staff and underlying personnel in the administrative system that guides day-to-day operations, supporting the development and maintenance of processes, procedures, and communications that enable EUV program to fulfill its mission and goals.
• Assisting the staff in assuring compliance against the terms, deliverables, and milestones outlined in EUV program plans and partnership contracts.
• Coodinating and supporting the external presence of EUV program via reports, newsletter content generation, conference coordination, and other outreach, as required.
• Acting as a liaison on behalf of the program with its internal and external stakeholders, including sponsors, and partners, as well as government officials, executives and staff members of NY Creates, and the public.
• Meeting planning and facilitation, presentation preparation, communications with program partners, potential partners, and representatives of government agencies, and review and editing of critical documents.
• Coodinating with internal departments to establish and execute support systems required by the EUV program and its partners.
• Supporting the efforts of EUV program leadership toward the establishment of the EUV program's project portfolio, from strategic alignment of programs and projects to portfolio categories and criteria, through proposal, evaluation, selection and prioritization, to contracting, execution, tracking and measuring the achieved results.
• Evaluating and maintaining program and project financial models, budgets, and forecasts.
• Providing regular financial analysis and fiscal-related reporting to leadership and other stakeholders as required.
• Aid in managing the allocation of financial resources for assigned projects and initiatives.
• Facilitate the planning, coordination, and oversight of project scopes, budgets, deliverables, milestones, schedules, and dependencies across the programs and projects in the portfolio and resolve or escalate conflicts.
• Create and maintain program documentation and artifacts to track project proposals, plans, contracts, budgets, changes, deliverables, and the progress of each project.
• Create and analyze key performance indicators to assist with driving improved results and provide detailed analysis, identifying risks and opportunities and addresses weaknesses or execution issues if required.
• Track project changes and implement changes to the contract documents.

Requirements

• Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in hard sciences or engineering sciences, business, management, or a related field from a college or university accredited by the U.S. Department of Education or internationally recognized accrediting organization OR equivalent relevant professional experience. Ten years of relevant professional experience and possess clear and well-reasoned verbal and written communications. Seven years professionally responsible experience in project management managing technical projects. Five years' experience in navigating complex organizational structures and collaborating with technical and business teams. A basic understanding of semiconductor industry, IC manufacturing process and process technologies. Clear and well-reasoned verbal and written communications. Possess the ability to interface with customers and internal partners at various levels within an organization; work independently; prioritize demands in a fast-paced environment; have strong organization skills; and have experience with project management software.
• Preferred Qualifications: Fifteen years of professionally responsible work experience in a similar position. Project Management Professional certification from the Project Management Institute. MS or higher in Hard Sciences or Engineering Sciences. Five years' experience working in a semiconductor foundry and has a sound technical understanding of semiconductor industry, IC manufacturing process and process technologies, specifically advance patterning and packaging. Demonstrated experience leading, influencing and driving collaboration without authority with multiple internal and external partners.