Head of New Product Industrialization

Who We Are

Applied Materials is a global leader in materials engineering solutions used to produce virtually every new chip and advanced display in the world. We design, build and service cutting-edge equipment that helps our customers manufacture display and semiconductor chips – the brains of devices we use every day. As the foundation of the global electronics industry, Applied enables the exciting technologies that literally connect our world – like AI and IoT. If you want to push the boundaries of materials science and engineering to create next generation technology, join us to deliver material innovation that changes the world. 

What We Offer

Salary:

$192,000.00 - $264,000.00

Location:

Santa Clara,CA

You’ll benefit from a supportive work culture that encourages you to learn, develop, and grow your career as you take on challenges and drive innovative solutions for our customers. We empower our team to push the boundaries of what is possible—while learning every day in a supportive leading global company. Visit our Careers website to learn more. 

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Head of New Product Industrialization

About You and The Role

You will own the entire product industrialization and supplier development engineering functions — building the team, processes, tools, and culture that make AMAT’s massive scale-up possible without compromising quality, delivery, or cost. This role will have 10-30 direct reports.

What You'll Do

• Full accountability for product and supplier readiness: every new program and every major ramp must pass through your organization’s technical gates before volume commitments are made.
• Build and lead a world-class team of Supplier Quality Engineers (SQEs), Industrialization Engineers, and NPI/Development Engineers
• Design and enforce AMAT’s global Supplier Industrialization Framework from first principles:
  • Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP)
  • Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) with AMAT-specific submission requirements (FAI (“First Article Inspection”), PSW (“Part Submission Warrant”), dimensional reports, material certifications, process capability, etc.)
  • Process Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (PFMEA) moderation and risk buy-off methodology
  • Run-at-Rate and ramp validation protocols
  • Process capability roadmaps (Cpk targets, statistical process controls)
  • Supplier scorecard system (OTD (“On-Time Delivery”), PPM (“Parts Per Million” defect rate), capacity utilization, cost-reduction delivery, risk)
  • Digital interface collaboration with Software leadership to ensure issue tickets are documented and routed back to suppliers
• Creation of robust, first-principles based should-cost modeling methodology. Build and maintain bottoms-up, parametric should-cost models for every critical commodity. Your models will be the source of truth for commercial negotiation benchmarking, make-vs-buy decisions, and annual cost-reduction targets.
• Lead technical deep dives with customers and suppliers on Design for Manufacturability/Assembly (DFM/A), automation ROI, tooling investment, and value-engineering initiatives driven directly from should-cost models.
• Develop dynamic capacity modeling tools that forecast supplier output 12–36 months forward under multiple demand scenarios, including the rate improvement action tracking systems needed to ensure industrialization risks are understood and mitigated
• Act as the final technical gatekeeper in Production Readiness Reviews (PRRs) and PPAP/FAI sign-off

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Industrial, Aerospace, Manufacturing, or Electrical Engineering.
• 15+ years in supplier quality, supplier development, or manufacturing/industrialization engineering
• 8+ years directly managing and scaling technical teams of 10+ engineers (hiring, mentoring, org design, span-of-control optimization).
• Multiple end-to-end APQP (“Advanced Product Quality Planning”) and PPAP (“Production Part Approval Process”) cycles personally led from kick-off through PSW approval in high-vol