Manager III, PVD Test Operations Management (M3) 2nd shift - Austin, TX, United States
$84,000 - $115,500 USD yearly
Originally posted 22 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves managing PVD Test Operations, leading a team of production employees and ensuring efficient production schedules. The scope includes optimizing manufacturing processes and addressing operational issues.
What you'll do
- Supervise, lead, motivate, direct, develop, and train a team of production employees.
- Prioritize production schedules based on available manpower, equipment efficiency, capacity, and materials requirements.
- Lead operational meetings to establish consistency in processes and align tactical/strategic plans.
- Ensure timely response to operations issues impacting customer satisfaction and initiate corrective action.
- Implement, emphasize importance of, and monitor compliance to appropriate safety policies and procedures.
- Manage employee performance, development, selection, hiring, reward, and discipline processes.
What you'll need
- Experience working on issues where analysis of situation or data requires review of relevant factors.
- Ability to receive assignments in the form of objectives with goals and meet them.
- Capability to provide direction to employees according to established policies and management guidance.
- Proficiency in exercising judgment within defined procedures and policies to determine appropriate action.
- Ability to gain cooperation of others and conduct presentations of technical information.
Skills: production employees, production schedules, operational meetings, manufacturing processes, PVD Test Operations
This role has been open 19 days — well below the 53-day median for Manufacturing/Industrial Engineering roles.
Manufacturing/Industrial Engineering · Manufacturing Equipment
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Open roles in category
2424
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Median days open
53 d
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Median salary
$99k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Applied Materials | All employers we track in this specialty (2424 roles · 77 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 230 | 2424 |
| Open roles in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family | 1090 | 9772 · 108 employers |
| Median days open | 39 d | 53 d (−14 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $99k |
Skills observed across this category: production employees, production schedules, operational meetings, manufacturing processes, PVD Test Operations
Who's hiring in this category
- Micron Technology · 384 open roles · median 81 d
- Entegris · 243 open roles · median 31 d
- Applied Materials (this employer) · 229 open roles · median 39 d
- Lam Research · 104 open roles · median 53 d
- Infineon Technologies · 90 open roles · median 52 d
- ASML · 74 open roles · median 70 d
How we counted: 2424 open Manufacturing/Industrial Engineering (Manufacturing Equipment) roles from 77 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 11 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.