Operations Project Manager

pSemi Corporation is a Murata company driving semiconductor integration. pSemi builds on Peregrine Semiconductor’s 30-year legacy of technology advancements and strong IP portfolio but with a new mission—to enhance Murata’s world-class capabilities with high-performance semiconductors. With a strong foundation in RF integration, pSemi’s product portfolio now spans power management, connected sensors, optical transceivers, antenna tuning and RF frontends. These intelligent and efficient semiconductors enable advanced modules for smartphones, base stations, personal computers, electric vehicles, data centers, IoT devices and healthcare. From headquarters in San Diego and offices around the world, pSemi’s team explores new ways to make electronics for the connected world smaller, thinner, faster and better.

Job Summary 

The Operations Project Manager supports complex, cross-functional Operations projects, including introduction and qualification of new manufacturing facilities and new test equipment or related semiconductor manufacturing processes.  Using project management skills and best practices, the Operations Project Manager facilitates strategic planning discussions and drives the cross-functional team to meet deliverables and milestone commitments to ensure successful project launches and completion. 

 

Roles & Responsibilities 

This position has responsibility for: 

• Manages a collection of Operations projects through planning, execution, and tracking. 

• Aligns and establishes the project Plan of Record (POR) with the cross-functional team. 

• Builds, monitors, and maintains the project tracking system to capture: WBS, Schedule, milestones, resources, costs, and deliverables. 

• Leads cross-functional project status reviews to track the agreed to plan and reporting status. 

• Provides project leadership and active participation to guide the project team and key stakeholders from concept to delivery. 

• Anticipates and identifies project risks, schedule slips or changes to analyze the scope, cost, and resource impact. Drives resolution of internal issues when the project deviates from plan. 

• Facilitates negotiation and conflict resolution across all levels, assigns actions and escalates as needed. 

• Identifies, scopes, and leads cross-functional process improvement projects impacting efficiency and on-time execution. 

• Implements tools, techniques, and processes to enable informed decisions. 

• Removes project obstacles and enables the cross-functional team to deliver key milestones. 

 

Competency Requirements 

In order to perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies:  

• Critical Thinking: Skilled at finding logical flaws in arguments and plans; identifies problems and solutions that others might miss; provides detailed insight and constructive criticism into problems and complex situations. 

• Working with Ambiguity: Achieves forward progress in the face of poorly defined situations and/or unclear goals; able to work effectively with limited information and supervision. 

• Communicate Effectively: Expresses ideas and information in a clear and concise manner; tailors messages to fit the needs of the audience; delivers information in a manner that is interesting and compelling. 

• Developing Plans: Follows PM best practices in working with teams to develop detailed and complete plans. Clearly defines goals and actions required to accomplish them. 

• Driving Project to Completion: Keeps current on project status; makes sure people are aware of project status and what they need to do to keep things moving; redirects project resources and activities to overcome setbacks; elevates project concerns to senior levels of leadership when appropriate. 

 

Minimum Qualifications (Experience and Skills) 

• Typically requires 3 to 5 years of experience in the semiconductor industry especially with projects from design initiation through high-volume shipment, depending on education level and experience 

• 3 years of experience in a project/program management role  

• Experience working with a variety of project management and business analytic tools (e.g., ERP, Workfront, SharePoint, MS Office Suite) 

• Excellent communication and organization skills. 

• Ability to influence and negotiate with cross-functional teams. 

• Ability to travel to Asia as needed. 

 

Preferred Qualifications  

• Experience successfully working and communicating with offshore assembly and test subcontractors.