Product Operation GPST Engineer

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Position Summary

In your role as a Product Operation GPST Engineer, you’ll work alongside a talent team to tackle complex problems that span across multiple systems and organizations. You will also work as a liaison beyond simply internal collaboration, as you engage with our core vendors to maintaining strong relationships and deliver critical components for our manufacturing.

Role and Responsibilities

• Reporting on overall status in relation to the production plan & product delivery.
• Hosting production progress conference calls in weekly basis with HQ.
• Collecting and analyzing data to determine planning needs.
• Participate in resolution of urgent production issues as they occur.
• Coordinating daily factory needs with Business Operations (Korea HQ) and take actions to meet daily customer shipment requirements, and leading technology transfers and have the ability to collaborate in cross-fab problem solving with HQ and local ex-pat teams.
• Perform line analysis and supply chain forecasting to be able to pinpoint bottleneck areas and take actions to help improve line movement and line balance.
• Perform bottleneck investigations utilizing existing productions plans, tool performance metrics, and existing capacity projects and create summaries of problem areas.
• Collaborating with manufacturing shift operations and follow-up on issues to resolution to identify areas of improvement within manufacturing and systems.
• Analyzing factory capacity limiters to identify capital investment issues or equipment qualification needs.

Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Engineering & Applied Mathematics.
• 4+ years’ experience in lean manufacturing, six sigma, factory operations, capacity planning, or project management.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office: Excel, PowerPoint, Word.
• Python, SQL, Atlassian Suite (Confluence, Jira) knowledge preferred.
• Ability to speak Korean a plus.

Salary Information

The current base salary range for this role is between $70,480 – $179,090. Individual base pay rates will depend on factors including duties, work location, education, skills, qualifications and experience.

Total Rewards

At Samsung SAS, base pay is just one part of our total compensation package. The base compensation for this role will depend on education, experience, skills, and location. We offer a comprehensive benefits package, including: Medical, dental, and vision insurance, Life insurance and 401(k) matching.