About Us
Ichor Systems is a global leader in the semiconductor industry, specializing in the design, engineering, and manufacturing of critical fluid delivery subsystems and components used in semiconductor manufacturing equipment. Join our global team and be part of a workplace that values safety, quality, and career growth.
As we grow, we're looking for passionate and skilled individuals to be part of our pioneering team! Our new manufacturing facility in Shah Alam focused on innovation, precision, and excellence in manufacturing.
Job Summary
We prefer candidates with experience across multiple operational disciplines, such as Commodity Management or Procurement. The ideal candidate will have extensive expertise in at least two of the following areas: procurement, commodity management, strategic sourcing, supplier development, planning, program management, master scheduling, and factory engineering.
Job Responsibilities:
Supplier Management
- Drives alignment of supplier selection to global supply strategy and the approved supplier list
- Manages key supplier and outsource integration partner relationships, cost optimization, product transfers / launches
- Defines sourcing contracts / supply agreements and ensures appropriate contractual agreements are in place addressing flow down requirements, capacity, cost, and commercial requirements
- Works with suppliers on improving Scorecards and KPIs
- Ensures adequate capacity exists in the supply chain for components of assigned products, coordinates forecasts, ensures end of life requirements are flowed down
- Maintain DDMRP (Demand Driven MRP) programs such as Kanban and safety stock replenishment contracts inclusive of analyzing and updating quantities, maintaining proper ERP system set up, keeping applicable contractual liabilities and amendments current, mitigating Ichor's liability, resolving delivery discrepancies, providing forecasts to suppliers and ensuring suppliers are performing to contractual service levels
Supply Chain Project Management
- Identifies or is assigned to lead continuous improvement opportunities across the global supply chain
- Drives process improvements and resolves complex supply chain issues (using methodology such as 8D report, etc.)
- Ensure NPI BOM items are purchased at lead time through, coordinating demand load with Business Units and Planning (MRP, Independent demand or Indirect Purchase Requisitions)
- Provides sourcing direction and coordinates RFQ packages with the support of Buyers and Global Supply Managers
- Coordinates PO tracking through Buyers
- ECO analysis, approval, and coordination of implementation to the supply chain for new products
- Establish plans for supply risks mitigation, eg. identify floor stocks, Safety stocks, VMI / Kanban , long lead time mitigation plans
- Benchmarks and drives cost reduction plans and actions with assigned suppliers
- Derives plans and methods for optimizing the costs associated with a products value chain
Job Requirements:
- Minimum 5 years experience in supply chain, commodity management or NPI related function & 10 years operations experience preferred
- Bachelor degree in business or Engineering. MBA preferred
- Strong understanding of contract manufacturing environment and management of global commodity strategies through a third-party provider
- Proven record of managing and driving Continuous Process Improvement activities. Strong analytical skills, ability to identify root cause for action/resolution
- Strong interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills
- Strong leader, self-motivated, proactive, detail oriented, hands-on and results driven.
- Good knowledge of aspects of purchasing, supplier selection, cost analysis and negotiation, planning, master scheduling and program management
- Work independently in fast paced environment
- Contract management, negotiation and implementation experience
- Ability to concisely communicate escalations, requirements and issues to suppliers, stakeholders, peers and upper management with clarity
- Experience working in ERP & PLM systems; SAP and Team Center preferred, Intermediate:
- Word processing/typing, presentation/PowerPoint/Power BI
