What are the responsibilities and job description for the Industrial Engineer position at NXP Semiconductors?
Business Line Description
NXP’s Front End Operations plays an essential role in the company’s success by ensuring the delivery of high quality, scalable, cost-competitive technologies and supply to create a winning advantage for our customers.
Job Summary
The Industrial Systems Engineer is responsible for multiple processes in a high-volume manufacturing facility. The position requires creating solutions to other parts of operations. This can vary from Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain to manufacturing IT.
Responsibilities May Include
NXP is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer regardless of age, color, national origin, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, status as a disabled veteran and/or veteran of the Vietnam Era or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, NXP will provide reasonable accommodations for otherwise qualified disabled individuals.
NXP’s Front End Operations plays an essential role in the company’s success by ensuring the delivery of high quality, scalable, cost-competitive technologies and supply to create a winning advantage for our customers.
Job Summary
The Industrial Systems Engineer is responsible for multiple processes in a high-volume manufacturing facility. The position requires creating solutions to other parts of operations. This can vary from Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain to manufacturing IT.
Responsibilities May Include
- Partnering with Area teams to understand area operations, identify improvement opportunities and develop solutions to meet Area Safety, Quality, Delivery and Cost Goals.
- Scrum, Agile approach
- Establish and maintain accurate area production management systems to enhance ongoing operations (Capacity Modelling, RTD Dispatch, Fab Scheduling, Forecasting etc., as well as supporting business processes.)
- Improving operational efficiency of factory equipment (OEE) resulting in improved cycle-time and/or increased factory capacity with minimal capital and/or operational investments.
- Improving labor productivity through the development/deployment of best known methods and Lean Manufacturing principles.
- Effectively communicate business objectives to the area teams. Provide goals and forecasts with clear linkage to factory objectives.
- Strategic capacity planning – both equipment and staffing.
- Collaborating with peers in Chandler AZ, Austin TX, and Nijmegen, The Netherlands to ensure consistent approach.
- Defining requirements, business processes and completing user acceptance testing of various IE systems supported by the Manufacturing IT organization for both internal and external software solutions.
- AI/ML, GenAI and LLM applications for operations
- Strong analytical and creative thinking skills for effective decision-making.
- Strong data analysis skills – to include working knowledge of statistics, SPC, ANOVA, comparative methods, and DOE. Experience through JMP, Minitab or similar
- Strong communication skills – oral, written, and presentation.
- Strong / Expert knowledge of M365 products including Copilot
- Complex problem solving skills, Lean/Six Sigma methodologies
- Solid business acumen.
- Strong inter-personal skills and ability to motivate team members.
- Strong computer application programming experience such as Python ,R, or C , SQL and some Business Intelligence (BI) experience such as Tableau, Power BI
- Databricks experience is advantageous but not required
- Experience in Factory Automation projects
- Willing and able to wear a cleanroom suit, working in a clean room environment
- BS or higher in Engineering. Advanced MS degree preferred. Other degrees may be considered.
- 1-2 year experience in semiconductor-related work in Engineering (IT, Device, Equip, Process, or Industrial) is advantageous but not required.
- Experience in deploying Lean principles and methods is advantageous.
- Experience in Fab Automation is advantageous
NXP is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer regardless of age, color, national origin, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, status as a disabled veteran and/or veteran of the Vietnam Era or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, NXP will provide reasonable accommodations for otherwise qualified disabled individuals.