Senior Director, Supplier Engineering

BUSINESS UNIT: Varian Semiconductor Equipment (VSE) - Silicon Systems Group (SSG)

LOCATION: Gloucester, MA

ROLE SUMMARY

This role is for an engineering leader who thrives in a fast-paced environment, someone energized by marrying rapidly evolving technical challenges with critical business decisions that drive both top-line resilience and bottom-line growth.

The Director of Engineering will build and lead a high-impact global engineering organization operating at the intersection of product development, supply chain, and operations. This role works in close partnership with Product, Supply Chain, and Operations leaders across a worldwide organization-driving technical and business excellence into both existing products and new product design. The position requires an interdisciplinary engineering leader who is comfortable working across product development, design decisions, supplier capability, and manufacturing execution.

A central focus of this role is the development and execution of strategic plans that improve business resilience and drive sustained profitability. This includes shaping multi-year approaches to supply continuity, technical capability, cost structure, and supporting operational scalability-while leading a cross-functional team accountable for executing against an evolving strategy.

This role is ideal for leaders who enjoy tackling rapidly evolving and unfamiliar technical challenges, and who are motivated to grow their careers by taking on broader, enterprise-level responsibilities. The position is directly aligned to business roadmaps, ensuring that product design, supply chain capability, and operational execution are tightly integrated with a resilient and geographically and economically aligned supply chain.

A critical component of this role is operating with high visibility-leading a global team while directing cross-functional efforts across Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations, and the Product groups-and influencing some of the most senior decision-makers in the business. This role provides a unique opportunity to develop a well-rounded understanding of the full business system and is a strong steppingstone to future senior leadership positions.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategic Leadership & Business Alignment
• Define and execute the multi-year strategy for Supplier Engineering aligned with BU priorities, product roadmaps, and Applied's global supply chain objectives.
• Provide clear strategic direction to improve supply continuity, supplier capability, engineering quality, and cost structure. Requires strong cross-functional alignment with goals and objectives of the Varian and AMAT global SC AOP's to enable corporate success.
• Influence executive leadership through data-driven sourcing, capability, and risk-mitigation recommendations.
• Present long-range strategies, risk models, and capability roadmaps to executive leadership to secure support and resource alignment.

Supply Chain Resilience & Long-Range Risk Mitigation
• Develop and lead multi-sourcing strategies, regional supply models, technical capability roadmaps, and Business Continuity Planning (BCP). This includes a strong Single Point of Failure (SPOF) strategy development and execution plan.
• Drive proactive risk identification and escalation processes with Global Supply Chain.

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Influence
• Collaborate extensively across Product Engineering, NPI, Commodity Management, Operations, Quality, Program Management, and Finance.
• Lead cross-functional steering teams to synchronize supplier strategies and decision-making.
• Align global and local supply chain teams to ensure consistent communication and execution.
• Drive organizational alignment and cross-functional adoption of major initiatives.

Technical Leadership of the Engineering Organization
• Lead and develop a high-performance engineering team responsible for increasing supplier capability, manufacturability, and technical problem resolution.
• Establish technical standards, methods, and engineering expectations and dissemination into the organization.
• Leading, developing and mentoring a dedicated global organization in a high growth, global company. Identifying and developing leaders for further career development in BU and ops roles.

Cost Reduction & Value Engineering
• Support a robust cost-reduction strategy via should-cost modeling, specification refinement, process optimization and produce re-design via DFM.
• Enable and drive measurable year-over-year total landed cost improvements to meet overall BU AOP metrics.

Best Known Methods (BKMs) Development & Dissemination
• Build and scale a comprehensive BKMs portfolio including engineering standards, supplier readiness frameworks, and technical playbooks.
• Drive adoption through structured deployment and global training. Dissemination of learnings is critical to this role.

QUALIFICATIONS
• 10 years of experience in Supplier Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Supply Chain Engineering, Product Development or related fields.
• Strong engineering foundation in semiconductor or high-reliability systems.
• Proven ability to lead and influence cross-functional global teams.
• Demonstrated results in supplier development, resilience building, and cost transformation.
• Executive presence, strong communication, and strategic influence capabilities.
• Experience presenting strategy to senior leadership and driving organizational alignment.

Additional Information

Time Type:
Full time

Employee Type:
Assignee / Regular

Travel:
Yes, 20% of the Time

Relocation Eligible:
No

The salary offered to a selected candidate will be based on multiple factors including location, hire grade, job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and with consideration of internal equity of our current team members. In addition to a comprehensive benefits package, candidates may be eligible for other forms of compensation such as participation in a bonus and a stock award program, as applicable.

For all sales roles, the posted salary range is the Target Total Cash (TTC) range for the role, which is the sum of base salary and target bonus amount at 100% goal achievement.