Micron Research Labs Infrastructure, Director

Micron Technology•Boise, ID

About The Position

Micron is seeking an MRL Infrastructure Director to connect Micron Research Labs with the project team delivering its flagship research facility in Boise, Idaho. Acting as MRL’s owner representative, the Director will guide the facility from requirements definition and design through construction, laboratory installation, commissioning, acceptance, and research readiness. The Director will translate the research mission into clear, traceable, and actionable user requirements for the building, laboratories, technical infrastructure, convening spaces, and shared amenities. The role represents MRL leadership in work with researchers and internal stakeholders, construction teams, architecture and engineering firms, facilities, procurement, contractors, and suppliers. It drives timely decisions, manages interfaces and risks, challenges designs for functionality and flexibility, and verifies that the completed facility meets approved requirements. The role calls for a credible technical leader and hands-on builder who can connect scientific users with design and construction teams. The successful candidate will bring disciplined requirements management, engineering judgment, executive communication, influence without direct authority, and decisive execution in a complex greenfield program. They will also leverage AI-enabled and digital technologies to improve requirements management, design coordination, risk assessment, decision-making, project execution, and operational readiness throughout the facility lifecycle.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree with 10 or more years of relevant experience, or a master's degree with 8 or more years of relevant experience, in Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management, Facilities Engineering, or a related technical field, with leadership experience delivering complex capital projects.
Experience delivering research facilities, advanced manufacturing facilities, laboratories, or comparable technical infrastructure in semiconductors, research institutions, or other advanced technology environments.
Experience as an owner's representative or as a lead for facility users from programming and design through construction, commissioning, acceptance, and handoff.
Experience delivering specialized technical facilities and integrating equipment, utilities, controls, data and computing infrastructure, security, and EHS requirements.
Expertise in user-requirements definition and management, including prioritization, traceability, design validation, and change control across multiple user groups.
Strong knowledge of design and construction delivery, coordination, contracting, capital planning, schedule and risk management, constructability, and commissioning.
Knowledge of applicable codes, permitting, quality, security, EHS, and compliance requirements for complex technical facilities.
Experience translating user needs into functional laboratories, convening spaces, and shared environments for employees, external researchers, partners, and visitors.
Executive communication and influence skills to drive consequential decisions, resolve conflict, and align multidisciplinary teams without direct authority.
Demonstrated ability to build capabilities from the ground up and drive execution through design, construction, commissioning, and readiness.
Experience leveraging AI and contemporary digital tools to improve the speed, quality, and effectiveness of technical and program execution.

Responsibilities

Serve as the primary MRL representative and conduit to the project team for planning, design, construction, laboratory installation, commissioning, and acceptance of the flagship facility.
Define, prioritize, validate, and control user requirements for the building, laboratories, technical infrastructure, convening spaces, and shared amenities.
Represent MRL leadership in design reviews, construction meetings, and decisions involving construction, architecture and engineering, facilities, procurement, contractors, and key suppliers.
Align research users and delivery partners, identify tradeoffs, secure timely decisions, and protect scope, budget, schedule, quality, safety, and research functionality.
Translate research workflows, equipment, utilities, environmental controls, security, data and compute, and EHS needs into coordinated design criteria.
Define and validate current and future technical infrastructure requirements, including compute, network, and data capabilities.
Define and validate requirements for shared conference and collaboration areas, auditoriums, and spaces for employees, external researchers, partners, and visitors.
Convene researchers and functional experts to resolve competing needs, confirm adjacencies and workflows, and approve requirements at each design stage.
Coordinate laboratory outfitting and equipment planning, including procurement interfaces, installation sequencing, site readiness, utility connections, and commissioning dependencies.
Ensure the design remains flexible for evolving research programs, partnerships, technologies, and equipment.
Establish governance, decision rights, escalation paths, change control, and reporting to enable timely, informed decisions.
Track requirements, design decisions, interfaces, risks, issues, actions, and commitments through closure.
Coordinate pre-handoff readiness requirements, including staffing assumptions, procedures, training, documentation, warranties, service strategies, and acceptance criteria.
Lead MRL participation in commissioning, integrated testing, punch-list closure, equipment qualification interfaces, occupancy readiness, and final acceptance.
Embed safety, security, EHS, code, permitting, and regulatory requirements throughout design, construction, commissioning, and acceptance.
Support capital planning, change evaluation, commercial reviews, vendor selection, contracting interfaces, and stewardship of project commitments.
Hold internal and external partners accountable for decisions, deliverables, quality, schedule, and closure while sustaining constructive relationships.
Leverage AI and contemporary digital tools to improve the speed, quality, and effectiveness of technical and program execution.