Senior Manager, Frontend Operations Central Team – Manufacturing Alignment Engineering

Our vision is to transform how the world uses information to enrich life for all.

Micron Technology is a world leader in innovating memory and storage solutions that accelerate the transformation of information into intelligence, inspiring the world to learn, communicate and advance faster than ever.

Site Manager

• Support the site to mitigate risks on their priorities by mobilizing the relevant Central Teams SME to support.

• Divide and conquer efforts within Central Functions teams at your site to resolve issues quickly.

• Help the site meet targets on MAE programs across all pillar programs.

• Attend Site Weekly Metrics review to identify gaps to site priorities.

• Arrange quarterly engagement sessions between MAE & Site Leaders.

• Participate in local supplier engagement sessions, eg. QBR, etc.

• Look into the team resourcing for site priorities and pillar programs.

• Look into the well-being and help facilitate the career growth of Team Members reporting to you.

Equipment Performance

• Ensure sustenance of the TPM program at your site.

• Support the development of methodologies to improve %UD/SD performance globally.

• Design Tier 2/3 matrices to improve %UD/SD.

• Develop suitable global reports for sites to benchmark against each other on %UD/SD

• Design and implement a process to improve workstations MOR %UTIL through %MA & Lost time improvement.

• Study the wafer path taken in critical workstations.

• Identify key data that needs to be extracted from the tool EDA system to map the time taken to complete wafer processing.

• Collaborate with SMAI to build a system to compare the wafer processing time between tools within a workstation.

• Quantify capex avoidance/savings that arise from improving Equipment Performance.

Address Tool to Tool mismatches in Process Areas

• Support the building of a database of inputs for all process areas to address tool to tool mismatch proactively.

• Database of inputs should cover the cross matching of software, hardware & process related inputs.

• Collaborate with SMAI to build a system using these inputs to identify & fix tool to tool mismatches in a workstation.

• Suitable triggers, processes & critical metrics will need to be designed to address & sustain tool to tool mismatches.

Standardization of practices & BKMs in Process Areas

• Support the setup of global area alignment teams to address chronic issues, drive improvements & eliminate wastes.

• Channel improvements and lessons learnt established from various forums, eg. TPM Forum, Excursion Review, etc. into global area forums to decide on the standards for deployment, implementation and audit.

• Design suitable matrices for each process area so that improvements impact the 4 pillars.

• Create a library of area level BKMs for Equipment & Process Engineers to search for standards involving the setup of Equipment & associated processes.

• This library must also serve the purpose to feed-forward area level BKMs to TD for process development & HVM for improvement work that will affect the 4 pillars.

• Sit in transfer reviews to ensure N-1 standards are fed-forward to N technode for sustenance

Demonstrate Leadership

• Adopt benchmarking and deliver strategies to close the gaps.

• Challenge complacency and do not let strong market conditions give a false sense of reality.

• Gain insights into the competitor's culture, approach, and capabilities.

• Understand that the only way to guarantee our future is to be the best.

• Understand the challenges your team faces.

• Don’t underestimate the effort it takes to be number one.

• Ignite the passion in people to achieve the impossible.

• Dare to set high targets, expect innovation and breakthroughs.

• Give honest, tough, but productive feedback to the team, and be willing to receive it yourself.

• Challenge others and be willing to stand for something.

• Have the courage to turn a crisis into an opportunity.

• Lead from the front and lead by example.

• Become the team that will out-innovate and out-execute the competition. Don’t accept anything less.

• Be unrelenting and “unreasonable”.

• Cultivate a habit of winning. Winning breed’s confidence.

• Find top talent willing to take risk and support them in doing the exceptional.

• Face unsolvable problems head-on and turn them into opportunities.

• Develop teams and team members to enable them to reach their full potential and reward them accordingly.

• Support team members with coaches and mentors who push Team Member outside their comfort zone.

• Lead the team to success.

• Leave a legacy behind that we are proud of.

• Believe in your team.

Requirements

• Bachelor Degree or equivalent experience

About Micron Technology, Inc.

We are an industry leader in innovative memory and storage solutions transforming how the world uses information to enrich life for all. With a relentless focus on our customers, technology leadership, and manufacturing and operational excellence, Micron delivers a rich portfolio of high-performance DRAM, NAND, and NOR memory and storage products through our Micron® and Crucial® brands. Every day, the innovations that our people create fuel the data economy, enabling advances in artificial intelligence and 5G applications that unleash opportunities — from the data center to the intelligent edge and across the client and mobile user experience.

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