Microelectronics - Program Manager

Aquatech tackles the challenges of critical minerals, water scarcity, and complexity by leveraging technology, expertise, and financing to deliver comprehensive solutions that enable competitive, sustainable infrastructure. As a leading global provider of water and industrial process technology solutions, we help the world's most recognized companies achieve their sustainability and operational goals by implementing innovative approaches for water reuse, desalination, minimal and zero liquid discharge, and critical minerals recovery.

Aquatech supports some of the world’s most technically demanding industries including semiconductor manufacturing, advanced packaging, solar manufacturing, and data centers. These facilities require highly reliable utility infrastructure including Ultra Pure Water (UPW), wastewater treatment (WWT), reclaim systems, thermal utility systems, chemical systems, and Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) systems.

About the role

This is a remote, full-time position for a Microelectronics Program Manager to support global semiconductor, advanced packaging, solar manufacturing, and data center projects. The role provides technical leadership, execution alignment, and integrated project delivery support for highly complex industrial utility systems associated with advanced manufacturing facilities. Unlike a traditional Project Manager role focused primarily on commercial management and project controls, this position serves as a technical execution leader responsible for engineering integration, managing global teams, and customer technical interface responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical execution strategy and program alignment for microelectronics utility infrastructure projects.
• Serve as a customer-facing role to communicate customer needs and requests throughout the global organization.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary technical teams including process, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation & controls (I&C), automation, and construction organizations.
• Drive technical decision-making, issue resolution, and execution alignment across global execution teams.
• Support engineering, procurement, fabrication, construction, commissioning, startup, qualification, and operational turnover activities.
• Participate in risk mitigation planning, constructability reviews, and execution strategy development.
• Support development of scalable execution methodologies, standards, and best practices for microelectronics projects.
• Review and support development of PFDs, P&IDs, General Arrangements, equipment layouts, utility integration strategies, control philosophies, startup plans, and qualification documentation.
• Support engineering coordination between process, mechanical, electrical, automation, controls, and construction disciplines.
• Participate in design reviews, operability reviews, maintainability reviews, and technical risk assessments.
• Support procurement and vendor technical evaluations for semiconductor and high-tech manufacturing applications.
• Evaluate system reliability, redundancy strategies, maintainability, operational flexibility, and lifecycle performance.
• Coordinate field execution activities including installation reviews, field coordination, commissioning support, startup planning, and operational turnover.
• Coordinate closely with construction teams, startup teams, operations organizations, and customers.
• Support accelerated startup schedules and schedule recovery efforts as required.
• Serve as a customer-facing technical leader for complex microelectronics projects.
• Interface directly with semiconductor, advanced packaging, solar manufacturing, and data center customers.
• Work effectively within matrix organizations across multiple disciplines and geographies.
• Support executive-level customer communications, technical workshops, and design reviews.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Chemical, Electrical, Civil, or related discipline).
• Minimum of 10 years of relevant industrial experience.
• Direct experience supporting one or more of the following industries: semiconductor manufacturing, advanced packaging, or solar manufacturing.
• Strong experience in multiple utility and process systems including UPW, WWT, reclaim systems, thermal utility systems, RO/membrane systems, chemical treatment systems, and ZLD.
• Experience supporting large-scale industrial or semiconductor projects through design, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, startup, qualification, and operational turnover.
• Strong understanding of multidisciplinary engineering integration and matrix organizational execution.
• Strong technical leadership, communication, and troubleshooting capabilities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting semiconductor fab utility systems or advanced manufacturing facilities.
• Experience with EPC, design-build, or integrated project delivery execution models.
• Experience with process mechanical systems, piping systems, and utility integration.
• Experience with instrumentation & controls (I&C), automation systems, SCADA systems, and electrical utility coordination.
• Experience supporting startup, commissioning, qualification, and operational readiness activities.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary technical teams and supporting accelerated project schedules.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package, including paid time off and company-paid holidays.
• 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).

Physical Job Demands

• Lifting/carrying/moving and exerting up to 50 lbs. of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects, including the human body.
• May need to climb ladders, cannot be afraid of heights, and will need to wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) while on site.
• Involves sitting at a desk for extended periods.
• Requires a high degree of concentration in a busy area.