Neuchâtel - IC Front-End Yield Engineering & Process Integration Manager

Engineering degree in Microelectronics or equivalent

• Leadership/Management Training and Certificate
• Minimum 11 years of experience in a high-tech company
• Minimum 5 years of experience in a managerial role
• Extensive experience in Product Yield Engineering and Continuous Technology Improvement, with a strong focus on results
• Proven expertise in process integration and IC Manufacturing process steps
• Successful track record in managing teams, with a focus on performance and people development
• Experience in new product introduction, including layout review and evaluation of design rule violations
• Effective organizer of complex activities, with a background in establishing and driving KPIs, processes, work methodologies and cultural changes within an organization
• Ability to design systemic solutions to achieve strategic goals
• Organized, problem-solving oriented, pro-active, thorough, reliable, flexible and self-motivated
• Strong communication skills across all levels of the organization, from Operator to CEO
• Excellent teamwork & stress management capabilities
• Solid project management experience
• Demonstrated expertise in automotive IC manufacturing
• Strong knowledge of automotive core tools, with specific skills in statistics, data analysis and risk-based thinking
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Fluent in written and spoken French and English written and oral

• A highly technological work environment
• A rich, varied and challenging professional position
• Supervise the Yield Engineering and Process Integration department, develop the team's skills and drive its performance towards operational excellence and achievement of KPI targets
• Lead the industrialization of technologies and the introduction of new products from qualification to mass-production; drive continuous improvement of product yield and technology performance (capability and reliability); follow-up on daily production results for those technologies; drive material assessment and disposition during non-conformance events and excursions
• Own the operational role in Process Control (Parametric and Reliability Tests), through fab outgoing electrical monitoring and capability improvement
• Act as a key contributor to the process change review board and material review board
• Collaborate proactively and hand-in-hand with Operations Teams (defectivity, process, quality and maintenance), Process Development, Business Units and Technical Services teams
• Define, own, deploy and communicate the department's priorities in line with Compagny FAB strategy
• Drive technical comparisons and analysis with benchmark companies and manage EM wafer foundries management