Manufacturing Operations Manager (Contract)
Intel Corporation
Posted: May 14, 2026
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Quick Summary
Oversees manufacturing operations, equipment maintenance, and repair in manufacturing facilities, ensuring optimal production and quality.
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Job Description
Job Details:
Job Description:
• Manages and leads a team of technicians overseeing operations, equipment maintenance, and repair in manufacturing facilities.
• Owns safety, quality, scheduling, and conflict resolution amongst staff and other stakeholders and assists in resolving operational, safety, and security issues.
• Oversees flow of work through factories and streamlining processes and operations between groups and divisions.
• Establishes tactical plans to ensure production schedules are met within established quality and cost objectives.
• Ensures optimum total area performance in terms of safety, quality, output, and cost through staffing training development and retention of the group.
• Understands scheduled and unscheduled equipment maintenance, repair, recovery, troubleshooting, tool quality, and tool run rate.
• Assumes direct ownership and acts as the first responder of all on-shift issues within assigned toolset or area.
• Works with engineering teams to solve problems impacting factory operations/health.
• Ensures effective employee staffing including workstation assignment, shift rotations, and PTO requests.
• Owns shift schedule including workstation assignments/rotations, employee training, employee vacations, employee breaks, overtime assignment, back-up for absent employees, and shift rotations.
• Establishes training plans for direct reports and monitor training performance against schedule to assure shift team has skills needed to sustain production.
• Regularly reviews staffing certification levels that are tied to wafer ramp levels and ensures performance required number of certified individuals for each ramp threshold.
• Develops long-term strategies for manufacturing operations capabilities to support future requirements.
• Responsible for enabling teams to execute through clear goal setting, facilitating work, maintaining accountability, applying differentiated performance management, and driving team results.
• Drives results by inspiring people, role modeling Intel values, developing the capabilities of others, and ensuring a productive work environment.
Qualifications:
• Minimum 2 years and above of relevant professional experience, including at least 1 year of experience leading a team of technicians.
• Strong engineering or technical background is required.
• Bachelor’s degree in an Engineering-related field, such as Electrical & Electronics, Mechanical, Mechatronics, or a related discipline.
• Able to work effectively in a fast-paced, startup-style environment and manage stress well.
• Willing and able to work onsite in Kulim.
• Willingness to work on shifts as required.
Job Type:
Intel Contract Employee
Shift:
Shift 1 (Malaysia)
Primary Location:
Malaysia, Kulim
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Business group:
Intel Foundry strives to make every facet of semiconductor manufacturing state-of-the-art while delighting our customers -- from delivering cutting-edge silicon process and packaging technology leadership for the AI era, enabling our customers to design leadership products, global manufacturing scale and supply chain, through the continuous yield improvements to advanced packaging all the way to final test and assembly. We ensure our foundry customers' products receive our utmost focus in terms of service, technology enablement and capacity commitments. Employees in the Foundry Technology Manufacturing are part of a worldwide factory network that designs, develops, manufactures, and assembly/test packages the compute devices to improve the lives of every person on Earth.
Posting Statement:
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.
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Work Model for this Role
This role will require an on-site presence. * Job posting details (such as work model, location or time type) are subject to change.
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