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Senior Director, Operations

MACOM
Durham, NC Full Time
POSTED ON 12/10/2025 CLOSED ON 1/10/2026

What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Director, Operations position at MACOM?

Company Overview:

MACOM designs and manufactures semiconductor products for Data Center, Telecommunication, and Industrial and Defense applications. Headquartered in Lowell, Massachusetts, MACOM has design centers and sales offices throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. MACOM is certified to the ISO9001 international quality standard and ISO14001 environmental management standard.

MACOM has more than 65 years of application expertise with multiple design centers, Si, GaAs, and InP fabrication, manufacturing, assembly and test, and operational facilities throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. Click here to view our facilities. https://www.macom.com/. In addition, MACOM offers foundry services that represents a key core competency within our business.

MACOM sells and distributes products globally via a sales channel comprised of a direct field sales force, authorized sales representatives, and leading industry distributors. Our sales team is trained across all of our products to give our customers insights into our entire portfolio.

Senior Director, Operations

Position Overview: Responsible for all Fab manufacturing operations, including day to day production activities together with multiple projects and programs. This role will drive continuous improvements as needed tied to quality, cost and output of various RF Microwave Semiconductor products.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Accountable for the safety, quality, cost, throughput, and on-time shipment of critical products for the demanding semiconductor industry.
  • Develop and execute strategies to meet company’s business objectives and goals. Lead long-term capacity planning and infrastructure investment to support future growth.
  • Translate manufacturing strategies into operational objectives, goals, and metrics to drive performance improvements in the areas of EHS, quality, on-time delivery, and cost to enable the profitable growth of the businesses. Contributing to the strategic direction of the business and participate in its execution
  • Work closely with the Supply Chain function to achieve business unit revenue, gross margin goals and key operations metrics such as OTD, late backlog, cost, yield and cycle time
  • Provide problem solving expertise for a wide range of semiconductor Fab challenges
  • Implement work and process improvement methodologies in the effort to reduce defects and scrap, improve yield, throughput, Cpk, create robust processes and reduce cost
  • Quality Assurance & Compliance: Maintain rigorous quality standards to meet customer and regulatory requirements.

Build, develop and grow the operations team, ensuring the efficient day to day operation of the function. Foster a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and accountability throughout the manufacturing organization.

  • Regularly communicate to the team, ensuring a transparent and open flow of communication. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify opportunities for process improvement and implement best practices. Provide regular reports and presentations to the executive team on operational performance and initiatives.

Key Competencies & Skills required:

  • Proven leadership skills. Must possess a strong “Safety” mentality. Experience leading, coaching, building teams and mentoring. An inspiring leader who can attract and retain the key talent for the plant. Results oriented - Do what we say.
  • Strong knowledge of manufacturing principles and structured problem solving.
  • Excellent analytical skills with the ability to make risk decisions on limited data.
  • Be able to thrive and succeed in a fast-paced, high intensity environment, and not be hindered by ambiguity or competing priorities. Ability to prioritize according to business objectives and manage multiple simultaneous projects.
  • Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across all levels of the organization. Possess the ability to communicate clearly, accurately and directly, both verbally and in writing to a global and varied audience

Required Qualifications and Experience:

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field.
  • 15 years related experience in operations and people management within a semiconductor wafer fab

Due to ITAR regulations, only candidates who are U.S. Persons (U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, lawful permanent residents, or individuals granted asylum or refugee status) will be considered for this position.

Benefits:This position is eligible to receive restricted stock unit (RSU) awards and cash bonuses, solely at MACOM’s discretion, subject to individual and company performance.

Comprehensive benefits package including but not limited to:

Health, dental, and vision insurance.

Employer-sponsored 401(k) plan.

Paid time off.

Professional development opportunities.

EEO:

MACOM is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a diverse workforce. MACOM will not discriminate against any worker or job applicant on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, military service, marital status, or any other category protected under applicable law.

Reasonable Accommodation:

MACOM is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you have a disability and are in need of a reasonable accommodation with respect to any part of the application process, please call 1-978-656-2500 or email HR_Ops@MACOM.com. Provide your name, phone number and the position title and location in which you are interested, and nature of accommodation needed, and we will get back to you. We also work with current employees who request or need reasonable accommodation in order to perform the essential functions of their jobs.
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