Tamaqua Process Scale Up Manager
About the role
Work Your Magic with us! Start your next chapter and join EMD Electronics. Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you’ve got big plans – so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people’s lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us. Everything we do in EMD Electronics is to help us deliver on our purpose of being the company behind the companies, advancing digital living. We are dedicated to being the trusted supplier of high-tech materials, services and specialty chemicals for the electronics, automotive and cosmetics industries. We foster a global collaborative organization made up of individuals who have the passion to win, obsess about the customer, are relentlessly curious and act with urgency. Together, we push the boundaries of science to make more possible for our customers. This role does not offer sponsorship for work authorization. External applicants must be eligible to work in the US. Location: The Tamaqua Process Scale Up Manager is an onsite position with 25–40% travel to US and Asia sites, depending on program phase and site locations. Reporting to the New Product Development Assistant Director, you will lead a dedicated team of up to 40 engineers and technical staff as part of a global organization.
Responsibilities
- Safety, Quality, and Compliance: Line management responsibility for maintaining the highest level of safety and 100% compliance with all relevant rules; designing processes with inherent safety and quality in mind and providing technical leadership to do so in the most efficient manner possible.
- Strategy & Technology Development: Define and drive the technology and process development strategy for semiconductor-related chemical processes, from early concept selection through full-scale production readiness; lead technical risk assessments and ensure they are done with adequate rigor; direct project scoping, technology assessments, and feasibility studies; establish clear go/no-go criteria for program advancement; build and maintain technology roadmaps, risk registers, and stage-gate project plans aligned with business priorities.
- Scale-Up & Technology Transfer: Own and execute scale-up activities from laboratory and bench scale to pilot and full production scale; systematically de-risk processes for manufacturing readiness; lead technology transfer to production sites, including process validation, QA/QC integration, and comprehensive documentation packages; collaborate actively with the global process development organization to identify potentially valuable new technologies to be employed for current and future project scope; collaborate with equipment engineering on the design, specification, and procurement of process equipment and automation solutions.
- Engineering Excellence & Continuous Improvement: Champion engineering simulation and modeling (CFD, reaction kinetics, process modeling, DOE) as core tools for design decisions and scale-up risk mitigation; drive post-launch optimization programs