Production Manager, Manufacturing

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage daily fabrication shop operations, with direct accountability for safety, quality, cost, and productivity.
• Oversee the fabrication, assembly, and quality control of semiconductor tool-install components, ensuring work is completed according to approved drawings, specifications, and quality requirements.
• Develop and maintain a rolling labor, capacity, and production plan based on workload forecasts.
• Cook regularly with leaders from other business units to review workload forecasts, balance labor and shop capacity, establish priorities, and identify opportunities for business units to support one another.
• Owning and achieving established shop, team, and individual KPI targets. Review performance weekly, communicate results, identify the causes of missed targets, and implement documented corrective action plans.
• Manage production schedules, budgets, staffing, equipment, materials, and other resources to achieve committed production and delivery targets. Proactively escalate constraints that could affect safety, quality, cost, or schedule.
• Drive continuous-improvement initiatives that reduce waste, rework, production cycle time, and cost while increasing quality, throughput, labor efficiency, and capacity.
• Present performance results, operational risks, resource needs, recovery plans, and strategic recommendations to executive leadership.
• Foster a collaborative, accountable, and high-performance culture through clear expectations, employee development, mentorship, cross-training, and regular performance feedback.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in semiconductor construction/fabrication industry.
• 3+ years of experience in a leadership role, managing production or fabrication teams.
• 5+ years of project management experience, preferably within a fabrication or semiconductor construction environment.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and present KPIs to executive stakeholders.
• Strong working knowledge of fabrication processes and quality control standards.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with steel pedestal fabrication.
• Familiarity with semiconductor components and materials, such as high purity regulators, valves, tubing, etc.
• In-depth knowledge of semiconductor tool installs construction methodologies.
• Familiarity with Lean manufacturing principles and continuous improvement tools.
• Strong communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills.
• Experience with Operational Systems Management (OSM) or other production management systems.