Director Operations MEMS Foundry

The organisation

With a growing presence in cardiology, oncology, and women's health, Philips operates in the areas of Imaging Systems, Patient Care & Clinical Informatics, Home Healthcare and Customer Services. Philips combines its clinical expertise and human insights to create innovative solutions across the continuum of care, in partnership with clinicians and our customers, to provide better value and expand access to care for millions. Our teams are working hard every day to improve patient outcomes all the way from disease prevention and screening to diagnosis, treatment, therapy monitoring, and disease management. Irrespective of whether the care cycle takes the patient from doctor's office to hospital or hospital to home, or simply from one medical department to another, Philips Healthcare's unique medical solutions are designed to optimize the quality and flow of patient information and clinical decision making.

The position

Philips Engineering Solutions operates a state-of-the-art 2650 m2 pure-play MEMS (Micro ElectroMechanical Systems) Foundry on the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. This MEMS Foundry is specialized in low to medium volume custom MEMS manufacturing. When off-the-shelf components do not meet your requirements, and you consider having a custom MEMS device especially made for you, you come to Philips MEMS Foundry.

About our pure-play MEMS Foundry

Philips MEMS Foundry have been around for over 40 years. They are born out of Philips Research and have matured into a pure-play MEMS Foundry. They now work for a wide range of technology leaders, mainly medium to large and growing high-tech enterprises. What their customers value about their pure-play MEMS Foundry is their responsiveness to change requests and their ability to provide creative out-of-the-box solutions for the ‘seemingly impossible’. They are certified for: ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 13485.

MEMS wafer types

MEMS manufacturing of 4, 6, 8 inch and even square substrates. The MEMS Foundry offers the flexibility to use substrate materials like silicon, SOI, GaAs, glass, quartz and CMOS-wafers. At the foundry they offer services with high quality and reliability: advanced process development, prototyping, and low to medium volume manufacturing.

Tasks & responsibilities

In this role, you have the opportunity to lead Operations in the MEMS Foundry of the MEMS & Micro Devices group.

You are responsible for

• Leading the Engineering, Operations, Maintenance and Supply Chain activities in the MEMS Foundry to world-class operational excellence;
• Hiring, supervising, developing, coaching, and evaluating MEMS Foundry personnel;
• Delivering products on time with high quality and yield;
• Optimizing production processes with respect to routing, supplies, equipment capacity and human resource levels;
• Managing the cost and expenditures related to Operations in line with approved budgets;
• Preparing multi-year manufacturing operation and investment plans to lead the manufacturing organization to the highest level of operational performance;
• Leading the development and continuous improvement of the way of working, the manufacturing processing methods and the equipment availability;
• Contributing to the implementation and operation of effective Supply Chain and IT processes and systems for MEMS & Micro Devices;
• Driving activities related to sustain and improve safety and to maintain commitment to environmental and quality regulations.

You are part of

The Director Operations reports to the Head of MEMS & Micro Devices, in Philips Engineering Solutions. You will be a management team member of MEMS & Micro Devices. Your direct reports include the managers that are responsible for the groups Process Engineering & Maintenance MEMS, Operations MEMS, Supply Chain Management and IT. This includes about 65 direct and indirect reports.

Candidate profile

To succeed in this role, you should have the following skills and experience:

• B.Sc. or M.Sc. degree in a technical discipline relevant to the industry (physics, materials science, chemical engineering, electronics);
• Experience as Operations Director/Manager, preferably experience as manager of managers;
• Many years of experience within the MEMS or semiconductor industry, in operations, manufacturing and/or engineering functions;
• Knowledge of common IT and Supply Chain Management systems in the Semicon or MEMS industry;
• Proven experience with and knowledge of structural improvement methodologies (DMAIC, DfSS);
• Knowledge of and experience with LEAN manufacturing;
• Knowledge of ISO standards ISO9001, ISO13485 and work according to the Quality Management System;
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, at different levels in the organization;
• Good interpersonal skills and team player;
• Drive and initiative to make a positive impact in the organization;
• Experience with change management in a manufacturing organization;
• Strong customer focus.

The offer

In the end this is a perm position. The first period you will work via YER.

There are 2 options:

• work as a contractor: max. yearly salary: €120k
• work as a freelancer: max. hourly rate: €105,-

Interested?

You can apply to this position by using the link below.