Head of New Product Industrialization

Applied Materials • Santa Clara, CA

7d • $192,000 - $264,000 • Onsite

About The Position

You will own the entire product industrialization and supplier development engineering functions — building the team, processes, tools, and culture that make AMAT’s massive scale-up possible without compromising quality, delivery, or cost. This role will have 10-30 direct reports.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Industrial, Aerospace, Manufacturing, or Electrical Engineering.
• 15+ years in supplier quality, supplier development, or manufacturing/industrialization engineering
• 8+ years directly managing and scaling technical teams of 10+ engineers (hiring, mentoring, org design, span-of-control optimization).
• Multiple end-to-end APQP (“Advanced Product Quality Planning”) and PPAP (“Production Part Approval Process”) cycles personally led from kick-off through PSW approval in high-volume consumer electronics.
• Proven track record taking at least three complex suppliers from prototype/low-rate (<5K units/yr) to full-rate production (>100K units/yr) while achieving Cp/Cpk ≥ 1.67 and GR&R (“Gage Repeatability & Reproducibility”) < 10% on critical characteristics.
• Expert-level command of GD&T (“Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing”), MSA (“Measurement System Analysis”), SPC (“Statistical Process Control”), FAI per AS9102, PFMEA, Control Plans, and DOE (“Design of Experiments”).
• Hands-on experience building and defending bottom-up should-cost models that drove >15% cost reduction on programs exceeding $50M annual spend.
• Demonstrated ability to create new processes and tools in high-growth, ambiguous environments (startups or business units that 5×–20×’d revenue in <5 years).
• Willing and able to travel internationally 80-100% (including 2–4 week stints in Asia during critical ramps).
• Must be eligible to work in the US and travel globally as needed.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in Engineering or MBA from a top university
• Deep domain expertise in new product industrialization.
• Personally built and institutionalized should-cost platforms (using Excel + Python, Costimator, aPriori, or custom tools) that became the standard for an entire company or division.
• Former leadership roles at top firms.
• Deep experience as a supplier and as a customer.

Responsibilities

• Full accountability for product and supplier readiness: every new program and every major ramp must pass through your organization’s technical gates before volume commitments are made.
• Build and lead a world-class team of Supplier Quality Engineers (SQEs), Industrialization Engineers, and NPI/Development Engineers
• Design and enforce AMAT’s global Supplier Industrialization Framework from first principles: Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) with AMAT-specific submission requirements (FAI (“First Article Inspection”), PSW (“Part Submission Warrant”), dimensional reports, material certifications, process capability, etc.) Process Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (PFMEA) moderation and risk buy-off methodology Run-at-Rate and ramp validation protocols Process capability roadmaps (Cpk targets, statistical process controls) Supplier scorecard system (OTD (“On-Time Delivery”), PPM (“Parts Per Million” defect rate), capacity utilization, cost-reduction delivery, risk) Digital interface collaboration with Software leadership to ensure issue tickets are documented and routed back to suppliers
• Creation of robust, first-principles based should-cost modeling methodology. Build and maintain bottoms-up, parametric should-cost models for every critical commodity. Your models will be the source of truth for commercial negotiation benchmarking, make-vs-buy decisions, and annual cost-reduction targets.
• Lead technical deep dives with customers and suppliers on Design for Manufacturability/Assembly (DFM/A), automation ROI, tooling investment, and value-engineering initiatives driven directly from should-cost models.
• Develop dynamic capacity modeling tools that forecast supplier output 12–36 months forward under multiple demand scenarios, including the rate improvement action tracking systems needed to ensure industrialization risks are understood and mitigated
• Act as the final technical gatekeeper in Production Readiness Reviews (PRRs) and PPAP/FAI sign-off

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive