Technical Project Management

Applied Materials•Gloucester, MA

3d•$96,000 - $132,000

About The Position

The Technical Project Manager drives high-velocity execution of critical, business-impacting initiatives for the Varian division of Applied Materials. The role manages a portfolio of cost reduction, resiliency, and value engineering projects, leading them from concept through qualification and production enablement. The TPM creates credible forecasts for cost savings, timing, and delivery risk, while aligning programs with product roadmaps and business-unit priorities. The role owns outcomes, drives accountability, and ensures projects deliver measurable business impact. Success requires cross-functional collaboration across engineering, operations, quality, and supply chain, along with the ability to influence stakeholders and accelerate decisions in a complex, matrixed organization. The role integrates value programs into product strategies, drives early business-unit buy-in, and ensures disciplined execution at scale. The ideal candidate has managed large, multi-threaded project portfolios in the semiconductor capital equipment industry or similarly complex manufacturing environments and has delivered meaningful cost and operational improvements.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations, or a related field.
5–10 years of experience, with increasing responsibility leading complex cross-functional programs.
Demonstrated track record delivering multi-million-dollar cost reduction and value engineering programs.
Experience managing multi-project portfolios with measurable business impact.
Strong expertise in product cost structure and value engineering for complex electromechanical systems.
Proven ability to build cost models, evaluate trade-offs, and quantify business impact.
Ability to influence engineering, operations, quality, and supply chain stakeholders without direct authority.
Ability to communicate clearly with technical teams and senior leadership.
Deep domain expertise in product cost structure, materials, and sourcing strategies.
Broad working knowledge across engineering, operations, quality, and supply chain disciplines.
Strong business acumen and ability to anticipate technical, operational, and regulatory challenges.
Ability to work at component and system levels, applying structured, data-driven problem solving to complex and ambiguous challenges.
Ability to lead complex, high-impact programs, drive alignment and accountability, and engage stakeholders across functions and levels, including senior leadership.

Responsibilities

Define and drive product-level cost reduction, resiliency, and value engineering strategy; build and manage a multi-year roadmap aligned to division cost objectives.
Own and prioritize a portfolio of value programs across implanter product lines based on business impact, feasibility, and resource constraints.
Lead program execution from concept through qualification and production enablement, delivering against committed cost, schedule, and performance targets.
Develop and maintain cost models and forecasts; track realized savings and report performance against plan to stakeholders and leadership.
Integrate value initiatives into product roadmaps, drive early business-unit alignment, and influence prioritization decisions.
Drive cross-functional execution across engineering, operations, quality, and supply chain; remove barriers, resolve conflicts, and accelerate decision-making.
Partner with engineering to identify design, sourcing, and specification opportunities that improve cost, manufacturability, and supply chain resilience.
Evaluate trade-offs across cost, risk, quality, and schedule to support informed decisions and program success.
Monitor program health, risks, dependencies, and critical-path activities; escalate and resolve issues affecting delivery.
Use internal and external benchmarks to improve value-program strategy, execution rigor, and business impact.