As the Engineering Operations Manager for our Fab5 facility in Spain, you will be one of a select group of leaders responsible for overseeing the installation and commissioning of 300mm semiconductor equipment in a state‑of‑the‑art, greenfield R&D; fab. You will lead a team of engineers and operations assistants to bring new tools online and support the ramp‑up of wafer processing. In addition, you will drive improvements in equipment performance, process reliability, and operational efficiency across a wide range of semiconductor engineering disciplines.

Engineering Operations Department

Our Engineering Operations team is responsible for various pilot production tools and devices, often first versions, sometimes even prototypes. Our equipment and process engineers intensively collaborate with process engineers and equipment manufacturers to identify, execute and evaluate improvement opportunities on our unique pilot production tools.



These highly motivated engineers identify preventative actions and assure the correct maintenance and repair of the equipment is guaranteed in the most efficient and cost-effective manner. Our process engineers maintain the processes and develop e.g. backup processes or perform process optimizations.

What you will do

Strategic leadership:
Develop strategies and business processes, in concert with your counterparts in Leuven, to optimize Fab performance and tool operations to ensure cycle time reduction, higher yield, faster learning speed, etc.
Foster a safety culture by enforcing rigorous environmental, health and safety protocols to ensure the wellbeing and continuity of site operations.
Manage and build relationships with suppliers and strategic partners to support and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
Work closely with other departments to align on customer needs, cost reduction opportunities, process improvements, and production stability.
Define and monitor resource allocations according to available budget

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📌 Engineering Operations Area Manager for imec Spain (Málaga)
🏢 imec
📍 Málaga