Production Operations TR

Position Summary

Samsung Austin Semiconductor is one of the most advanced semiconductor manufacturing facilities in the world with more than 3,000 employees and 2.45 million square feet of floor space. Samsung Austin Semiconductor has broad semiconductor process technology offerings serving customers in various application areas including mobile, consumer, networking/high performance computing, Internet of Things, RF and automotive. Since 1996, SAS has invested approximately $17 billion in its Austin, TX campus, making it one of the largest direct foreign investments in United States history. Samsung Austin Semiconductor is a US-based subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. The Austin facility is one of the few semiconductor plants the company has outside South Korea. Visit www.samsung.com/us/sas.

SAS is focused on being the World’s Best Foundry product supplier.

Role and Responsibilities

• The production operations engineer TR will serve as the direct front line leader to monitor, analyze, and improve manufacturing metrics for their assigned products.
• The candidate should be self-motivated, driven, data oriented, and have excellent communication and leadership skills.
• The team requires CC with GOC & S1 to discuss revenue/delivery priorities, so you will need to be flexible to support multiple weekly evening CC.
• Responsibilities focus primarily on the daily support of the production line, bottle neck tool group analysis, business process development, communication to executives/shifts, report generation, root cause problem analysis, and the completion of continuous improvement projects.
• Coordinate daily factory needs with global supply chain group and takes actions to meet daily customer shipment requirements.
• Negotiate product shipment requirements with Global Operations Center.
• Identify and resolve areas of improvement within manufacturing (Equipment Utilization, Cycle Time Reduction, Bottleneck Management).
• Effectively communicate across the organization to align manufacturing, production planning, and engineering.
• Lead cross functional teams (Systems Engineering, Capacity Planning, Production Planning, and Engineering) to improve factory automated scheduling systems to align with required factory device shipment requirements.
• Communicate product performance and supply forecasts to all levels of the organization.
• Analyze factory capacity limiters to identify capital investment issues or equipment qualification needs.
• Partner with manufacturing operations team to improve daily tactical operations methods.
• Provide team with coaching and support to achieve individual employee development plans.
• Develop business processes that improve productivity, cost, automation, and quality.
• Promote learning culture by developing and deploying technical training and continuous learning programs.
• Coordinate new hire recruitment activities and performance management.
• Work days and hours: 1st-Shift, M-F 8-5.

Skills and Qualifications

• 4-year degree in Industrial Engineering, or related Engineering field.
• 3 year minimum experience with demonstrated success in inventory analysis, production control, capacity planning, lean manufacturing, six sigma, or project management.
• Semiconductor manufacturing experience preferred.
• Preferred experience in real time dispatching and automated scheduling systems.
• Flexible, Adaptable and team oriented.
• Effective listener, and experienced with coaching and mentoring.
• Self-motivated and strong at motivating others.
• Ability to analyze data, identifies issues, and provides solutions to closure.
• Able to influence up, down, and across the organization to create change.
• Experienced in preparing and delivering executive level presentations and technical workshops.
• Experienced in Project management, Supply Chain optimization, and Business Process Re-engineering.
• Excellent critical thinking and decision making skills; recognize 3rd & 4th order effects of a catalyst event.
• Effective organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills.
• Must be able to coordinate and communicate technical information to and from all levels of the organization.
• A history of “hands-on” approach to problem solving and countermeasure implementation within own areas of responsibility, self-starter and self-finisher.
• Proactive and self-driven approach to overcome challenges and achieve results.
• Experience in manufacturing sciences (Theory of Constraints, Lean Manufacturing, Capacity Planning, Littles Law, Overall Equipment Efficiency, and Flow Optimization).
• Skilled in MS Office: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Experience with VB & SQL a plus.
  

• Samsung Electronics America, Inc. and its subsidiaries are committed to employing a diverse workforce, and provide Equal Employment Opportunity for all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, gender, age, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a protected veteran, genetic information, status as a qualified individual with a disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.