Equipment and Material Supplier Project Leader

What you will do

• As an Equipment and Material Supplier Project Leader, you will be leading teams to enable innovative solutions for future Patterning, Memory, Compute and System applications, by leveraging our supplier ecosystem. Your goal will be to demonstrate the technology in agreement with our external customer roadmap and IMEC’s strategy. You will align with the expert teams, resource, and FAB managers to best define and implement your plan.
• You will be responsible for leading the team operationally, promoting interactions and innovations to solve technical challenges. Your open communication, enthusiasm and drive will be key to create a strong team and reach your project goals.
• Together with the operational managers, you will monitor the performance and resources of your project and ensure to stay within agreed boundaries. You will proactively manage changes, drive the acceleration of your project activities when require, escalate showstoppers or issues within the organization and to the customer, and help provide solutions.
• Interacting with our customers will be an important part of your activities. From project definition until project closure, you will be in close contact with them. You will regularly report to the customer team, help keep a strong link with them and answer their specific requests. Your ability to receive, assess and respond efficiently will be key.
• You will seek constant improvements in both the quality and learning speed of your project. We will count on you to bring new ideas and help implementing them.
  
  

What we do for you

We offer you the opportunity to join one of the world’s premier research centers in nanotechnology at its headquarters in Leuven, Belgium. With your talent, passion and expertise, you’ll become part of a team that makes the impossible possible. Together, we shape the technology that will determine the society of tomorrow.

We are committed to being an inclusive employer and proud of our open, multicultural, and informal working environment with ample possibilities to take initiative and show responsibility. We commit to supporting and guiding you in this process; not only with words but also with tangible actions. Through imec.academy, 'our corporate university', we actively invest in your development to further your technical and personal growth.

We are aware that your valuable contribution makes imec a top player in its field. Your energy and commitment are therefore appreciated by means of a market appropriate salary with many fringe benefits.

Who you are

• You have a PhD degree or MSc in microelectronics, electrical engineering, physics, applied physics, material science, or a closely related discipline
• Minimum 5-year experience in the semiconductor field (Process, Integration, Device, Reliability and/or Design)
• Customer driven
• Previous industrial experience as a R&D project lead is a real asset
• Efficient communicator
• Enthusiastic and “always improving” mentality