Principal Specialist - Digital Manufacturing Business Process Standardization

About the role

GLOBALFOUNDRIES is seeking a highly experienced semiconductor manufacturing professional to lead global business process standardization initiatives across its manufacturing sites. The role drives the development, alignment and deployment of standardized manufacturing and quality-related business processes, ensuring consistency, efficiency, compliance and operational excellence. It works closely with manufacturing, quality, engineering, IT and site leadership teams, and acts as a bridge between technical and business roles.

Key responsibilities

• Lead enterprise-wide manufacturing business process standardization across multiple fabs, documenting current-state processes and identifying variations, gaps, inefficiencies and best practices.
• Develop future-state standardized processes and establish governance, ownership models, standards, templates and deployment frameworks.
• Facilitate workshops with stakeholders across global fabs, partner with IT, Digital Manufacturing, QA and Fab Operations teams, and lead cross-functional decision-making forums.
• Drive large-scale global transformation programs, including project plans, milestones, risk mitigation and deployment roadmaps.
• Manage stakeholder communications, monitor adoption and compliance, and lead change management, training and organizational readiness.
• Lead pilots and global rollouts, define KPIs and benchmark performance before and after deployment.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Quality Engineering or a related field; Master's degree preferred.
• 5+ years of semiconductor manufacturing experience.
• 2+ years leading cross-functional or global transformation initiatives.
• Experience working across multiple fabs, sites or business units, and driving enterprise-wide process improvement or standardization programs.
• Proven ability to manage complex projects with multiple stakeholders and global teams.

Required skills

• Exceptional facilitation and stakeholder management skills, and ability to influence without direct authority.
• Strong executive communication and presentation capability, and consensus building across geographically distributed teams.
• Strategic thinking, strong execution discipline, and strong analytical and problem-solving skills.