Industrial Engineering Manager

Job Summary

Key Responsibilities

Qualifications

About the Role

Lead the Industrial Engineering team and oversee the development and implementation of efficient and optimized manufacturing processes and systems for a growing organization. This role focuses on driving continuous improvement, enhancing productivity, reducing costs, and ensuring quality and safety within manufacturing operations. This position will collaborate with various departments, utilize engineering principles and methodologies, and manage resources to achieve organizational goals and manage projects to completion.

Departmental Leadership

• Select, develop and manage industrial engineering staff.
• Set goals, prioritize projects, resolve issues, and communicate performance expectations and results.

Data & Bottleneck Management

• Manage all Manufacturing Execution System (MES) data for production routes, including runcards, operations, tooling, recipes, data collection, and operating instructions.
• Identify and optimize critical constraints in the "Fab" to enhance Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) and throughput.

Capacity Modeling

• Develop and maintain a model that forecasts manufacturing resource levels (e.g., equipment and labor) based on demand, generating short-term and long-term scenarios.
• Utilize this model to pinpoint capacity improvement needs, prioritize actions, and track progress.

Manufacturing Layout

• Support the overall design and development of cleanroom layouts to ensure optimal use of space, efficient logistics, and smooth workflow.

Reporting

• Establish key operational metrics and reporting mechanisms to communicate performance and identify critical constraints.
• Highlight and optimize critical bottlenecks and constraints within the production process.

Production Scheduling

• Monitor, enhance and optimize dispatching algorithms to ensure efficient resource allocation, line balancing, and on-time lot delivery.
• Knowledge of FPS scheduler is beneficial.

Professional Development

• Stay updated on current industrial engineering processes and methodologies through professional publications and assess their applicability to the organization.

Continuous Improvement

• Lead Lean and Six Sigma initiatives to reduce waste and implement "Smart Manufacturing" transformation strategies.
• Identify opportunities to reduce speed or throughput losses and work with process or tool owner to optimize.

Other Duties

• Perform additional tasks and responsibilities as required to support departmental and organizational goals.

About the Role

Polar Semiconductor is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. We are committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.