Lab Operations Manager - Arizona, Phoenix, United States
$137,610 - $227,270 USD yearly
Originally posted 14 October 2026 by the employer.
Lead a Lab Operations team for Chandler Data Center Group (DCG) PSE/SSL Labs.
About the role
As a Lab Operations Manager, you will lead a team responsible for delivering reliable, scalable, and efficient lab operations that support engineering development and validation activities. This role involves ramping a new Data Center Group (DCG) PSE/SSL Lab Operations team.
What you'll do
- Ramp a new Data Center Group (DCG) PSE/SSL Lab Operations team.
- Oversee standardizing DCG lab operations including infrastructure, equipment, asset management, logistics, networking, and support services.
- Drive operational excellence through process improvement, automation, and standardization.
- Partner with engineering teams to support development, integration, testing, and validation activities.
- Manage lab assets and resources to ensure availability, efficiency, and compliance.
- Establish operational priorities, performance metrics, and continuous improvement initiatives.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, IT, Computer Science, Operations Management, or related field, or 5+ years of equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of experience managing laboratory, engineering, data center, or technical operations.
- 5+ years of experience with lab infrastructure, hardware systems, networking, asset management, and IT support.
- 5+ years of experience with safety, quality, compliance, audits, equipment calibration, and process improvement.
- At least 1 year experience with any 3 or more of the following: ServiceNow, SAP, iConsole, LaMP, AGS, HSD-ES, ISM, or SharePoint.
Nice to have
- Experience developing operational strategies and roadmaps.
- Experience ramping a new team from scratch to support Lab operations.
- AI adoption including experience with CoPilot, Gemini, and GitHub.
Skills: lab operations, asset management, process improvement, equipment, validation activities
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 55-day median for Manufacturing/Industrial Engineering roles.
Manufacturing/Industrial Engineering · Manufacturing Equipment
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Open roles in category
2454
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Median days open
55 d
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Median salary
$98k
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| Metric | Intel Corporation | All employers we track in this specialty (2454 roles · 79 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 39 | 2454 |
| Open roles in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family | 191 | 9855 · 109 employers |
| Median days open | 43 d | 55 d (−12 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $98k |
Skills observed across this category: lab operations, asset management, process improvement, equipment, validation activities
Who's hiring in this category
- Micron Technology · 400 open roles · median 77 d
- Entegris · 236 open roles · median 34 d
- Applied Materials · 232 open roles · median 40 d
- Lam Research · 103 open roles · median 57 d
- Infineon Technologies · 88 open roles · median 55 d
- ASML · 74 open roles · median 69 d
How we counted: 2454 open Manufacturing/Industrial Engineering (Manufacturing Equipment) roles from 79 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 14 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family row. Figures refresh nightly.