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Littelfuse is one of America’s Best Mid-Sized Companies (Forbes) and has been named one of the Best Places to Work in Illinois (Best Companies Group) for 11 consecutive years. With its global headquarters in Chicago, Illinois, USA, Littelfuse is a leading, global manufacturer of electronic components serving more than 100,000 end customers across industrial, transportation, and electronics end markets. We have more than 17,000 employees with operations in 15 countries. From semiconductors to sensors… switches to fuses and more… we produce billions of electronic components that help our customers empower a sustainable, connected, and safer world. In 2021, Littelfuse had net sales of $2.1 billion.

In the position as Senior Manager Product Engineer (f / m / d) you will be located at our plant site in Lampertheim and report directly to the Director Product Engineering SBU. As Senior Manager Product Engineering (f / m / d) you’ll manage several product and test engineering teams in different sites.

About the position :

Manage a global organization consisting of several product and test engineering teams in different internal site and foundries (External wafer fabs)

Define with the local group manager of each engineering team yearly targets, which are derived from the targets of the global product and test engineering department and site-specific cost reduction and quality improvement targets

Establish a KPI driven reporting and governance structure to track the target execution and trigger corrective actions once deviations are detected

Plan the resources to support production, quality, sales and marketing support requests as well as development projects and calculate the required budget

Establish a resource planning and management process

Develop the team competences to meet the technology and product roadmap requirements

Identify together with other experts cost reduction and quality improvement options, evaluate these and drive the product change process and implementation in production

About you :

Technical degree in physics, electrical engineering, material science or equivalent

Expert knowledge in power semiconductor wafer fab processes and test or equivalent

Basic knowledge of semiconductor physics and devices

At least 10 years of experience in semiconductor engineering and test and

at least 5 years in a management position in this area

Very good written and oral communication skills in English

Ability to structure complex tasks, delegate feasible work package to employees

Experience in defining and monitoring of wafer fab and test KPIs

Willingness to travel up to 30%

Littelfuse strives to empower associate growth and development in a culture of ongoing collaboration and respect for diverse global perspectives and expertise. Our Core Values – Respect, Customer Focus, Agility, Collaboration – support us in our mission to improve the safety, reliability, and performance of our customers’ products that use electrical energy.

We are an equal opportunity employer that takes pride in giving every associate the means and courage to make a difference – everywhere, every day.

We offer a variety of benefits, flexible working hours as well as development opportunities like internal Lean Six Sigma Certification.

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