Senior Manager, Process Sustaining Engineering

About the role

Analog Devices is hiring a Senior Manager, Process Sustaining Engineering (Work Centre Head) for its Limerick wafer fabrication facility. The role leads the safe operation of a process engineering work centre and holds overall accountability for safety, quality, output, process capability, tool performance and people leadership across analogue, CMOS, BiCMOS, bipolar, sensor, MEMS and actuator technologies. Reporting to the Process Engineering Director, the manager is part of the Wafer Fab Management Team and provides fab-wide leadership.

Key responsibilities

• Safety leadership: champion a safety-first culture, ensure compliance with environmental, health and safety standards, drive risk identification and mitigation, and lead incident investigations with corrective and preventive actions.
• Quality and process control: own process capability, SPC compliance and defect reduction, partner with Quality, Manufacturing and Product teams, and lead root cause analysis of process excursions.
• Output, capacity and delivery: meet output commitments, improve cycle time, throughput and productivity, and run recovery plans during capacity constraints.
• Tool performance: own tool availability, uptime, utilisation and OEE, and work with Equipment Engineering to maximise asset value.
• Technology development: support the development, qualification and ramp-up of new process technologies and ensure their transfer to high-volume manufacturing.
• People leadership: lead, coach and mentor engineers, build succession plans, attract and retain talent and foster a culture of ownership and continuous improvement.
• Cross-functional leadership: collaborate with Manufacturing, Equipment Engineering, Integration, Quality, Facilities, Planning and Product teams, and communicate priorities and recovery plans to senior leadership.

Required profile

• 13+ years of experience and 6+ years of diversified leadership.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Physics, Materials Science, Semiconductor Engineering or a related discipline; advanced degree preferred.
• Proven experience managing engineering teams and leading organisational change.
• Experience across analogue, CMOS, BiCMOS, bipolar, MEMS, sensor or related semiconductor technologies is highly desirable.

Required skills

• Process control, yield improvement and quality systems
• Equipment performance and manufacturing operations
• Strong communication, influencing and stakeholder management skills

The role involves about 10% travel and is a day shift. Export licensing review may be required for applicants who are not US citizens or permanent residents.