Vice President Central Manufacturing Engineering

Are you passionate about combining the highest technology and manufacturing expertise to produce innovative and reliable products? As ”Vice President Central Manufacturing Engineering” (f/m/div)*, you will lead and develop a world-class team to deliver manufacturing productivity, increase profitability, and reliability across all Front End (FE) Fabs of Infineon. As "Vice President Central Manufacturing Engineering” (f/m/div)* you will be responsible for developing and deploying a standardized global operational model for Operational Excellence, Manufacturing Engineering/CME, Equipment Engineering and Manufacturing Execution with the goal of driving and implementing a lean, output-oriented, and efficient organization to achieve best-in-class manufacturing performance. You will build strong relationships and partnerships with the Front End Board, including Finance and Operations leaders, to advance Manufacturing Excellence. You will perform maturity assessments to identify and implement process standards and improvements on global level and in targeted manufacturing sites. In your new role you will: - Be an engaged **people leader **and demonstrate leadership in site operations management, engineering, quality, and operational excellence - **Provide high standards, best practices, and governance **to our site leadership teams - **Be accountable for the performance **for the FE cluster with strategically focus on sites across the regions Europe, US and Asia - Deliver **manufacturing productivity, output increase, sustainability, costs **, and other operational targets - Adapt and execute **functional business plans **and contribute to the **development of functional strategies**: - **Partner with stakeholders **like Digital Manufacturing, Finance, Quality, and others to support systematic enhancements and best practice sharing As "Vice President Central Manufacturing Engineering” (f/m/div)* you translate the strategy into ambitious goals and make sure that it becomes a binding guideline for people’s actions. In addition, you are aware of the strengths, needs for development, and motivational drivers of your people and deploy them according to their competences within your team. You recognize and seize potential for improving efficiency with dedication. You are best equipped for this task if you have: - Achieved a **Master’s university degree**: - At least **15 years’ experience in semiconductor operations management **such as manufacturing, production, operational and/or manufacturing excellence - 10 years’ experience in Lean Six Sigma, Operational Performance Improvements, transformation projects, business process improvements, factory physics - Deep understanding of **factory automation and digitization**: - Experience in deploying **daily management processes for factory performance management**: - **Business fluent English and German skills** In our headquarters in Neubiberg near Munich, more than 6000 employees are working in research & development, several central functions, IT and many more. **Driving decarbonization and digitalization. Together.** The **Frontend (FE) **cluster offers a broad range of manufacturing competence specialized in high-quality logic products. The portfolio consists of power, bipolar, sensors, SMART-power and diode technology as well as CMOS, RF-CMOS and embedded flash technologies. The manufacturing sites in Austin, Dresden, Kulim, Regensburg and Villach are committed to "Operational Excellence" with a strong customer focus. **We are on a journey to create the best Infineon for everyone.** This means we embrace diversity and inclusion and welcome everyone for who they are. At Infineon, we offer a working environment characterized by trust, openness, respect and tolerance and are committed to give all applicants and employees equal opportunities. We base our recruiting decisions on the applicant´s experience and skills. We look forward to receiving your resume, even if you do not entirely meet all the requirements of the job posting. Please let your recruiter know if they need to pay special attention to something in order to enable your participation in the interview process. Click here for more information about Diversity & Inclusion at Infineon. - The term gender in the sense of the General Equal Treatment Act (GETA) or other national legislation refers to the biological assignment to a gender group. At Infineon we are proud to embrace (gender) diversity, including female, male and diverse.