Procurement and Supplier Manager, Optoelectronics

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Job Description:

Procurement and Supplier Manager, Optoelectronics

BROADCOM – Optical Systems Division (OSD)

Position Overview:  In this full-time position with competitive pay and excellent benefits, the successful candidate will interface with departments throughout the company to facilitate the efficient and profitable manufacture of microelectronic laser and detector products that are critical to Broadcom’s success as a leading manufacturer in the optoelectronics industry.  The candidate will work energetically within a collaborative environment to procure materials, manage supplier and contract manufacturing projects and optimize yields and operations output in the manufacturing process.   

Responsibilities:

• This leader will have direct management responsibility of a small procurement and planning team, and may also have project management responsibilities over key strategic projects dealing with in-house or external manufacturing.

• Negotiating supply agreements, pricing, qualification requirements and ongoing quality control with key strategic suppliers.

  • Analyzing and improving end-to-end process yield, testing yield, and manufacturing efficiency; performing failure-mode analysis.

• Collaborating with the design organization to set up and oversee experiments involving wafer and chip fabrication.

  • Implementing software applications and overseeing database activities that support manufacturing.

  • Driving process control through SPC and quality system practices.

  • Using design of experiments (DOE) for process optimization and for the qualification of new materials, processes, components and consumables.

Qualifications and Skills: 

• Minimum qualifications: Minimum of 12 years of overall industry experience, including at least 3 years in a formal management or leadership role.

• Master’s Degree in engineering, mathematics, or physical science, with 10+ years’ experience in semiconductor manufacture, or comparable combination of education and experience.

• Preferred:  Ph.D. in engineering, mathematics, or physical science, with 7+ years’ experience in semiconductor manufacture.

• Excellent written and oral communication skills. 

• Strong problem-solving ability; a mindset that is detail-oriented and analytical.

• Experience with various software packages, including JMP, MS Office, and G-Suite.

• Willingness/ability to learn and use internally developed custom software.

• Perseverance, a positive attitude, and a bias toward action.

• Experience interacting directly with external customers.

• Experience directing manufacturing activities at external foundries and/or contract manufacturers.

• Direct people management experience in a semiconductor fab environment

Preferred:

• Experience with statistical software and analysis, including statistical process control.

• Experience with using SQL queries for data mining, analysis, and presentation.

• Knowledge and application of lean manufacturing methods.

• Wafer fabrication experience in a compound semiconductor manufacturing environment.

About Broadcom Inc. and the Breinigsville Facility:

Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO) is a global technology leader that designs, develops and supplies a broad range of semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions. Broadcom's category-leading product portfolio serves critical markets including data center, networking, enterprise software, broadband, wireless, storage and industrial.

The Breinigsville, PA, manufacturing location was created by AT&T in the late 1980s as Bell Laboratories’ world headquarters for optoelectronics.  Through a series of acquisitions, this facility is now an integral part of Broadcom’s Optical Systems Division, manufacturing indium phosphide lasers and detectors that support telecommunications and datacenter customers throughout the world. Located in the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania just outside of Allentown, our high volume, 24/7 manufacturing facility fabricates devices that enable fiber optic communication and datacenter expansion.