Technical Project / Program Manager
$140,000 - $192,500 USD yearly
Originally posted 2 June 2026 by the employer. Relisted by the employer on 6 November 2026.
About the role
As a Technical Project / Program Manager within the Operations Product Development team, you will deliver business value to Global Operations through software applications supporting manufacturing, supply chain, and quality initiatives. You will frame problems with data, align cross-functional stakeholders, and collaborate closely with software engineering partners on architecture and system trade-offs.
What you'll do
- Support end-to-end execution of supply planning initiatives, tracking milestones, dependencies, and actions while owning and evaluating supplier forecast signal quality.
- Translate business goals and customer needs into technical product requirements and collaborate with software engineers to design scalable, reliable data pipelines and systems.
- Perform detailed data analysis across supply, demand, capacity, and materials, using SQL and Python to test hypotheses, simulate scenarios, and check data quality.
- Build and maintain analytical models, trackers, and summaries using Excel and planning tools to identify trends, constraints, and inconsistencies.
- Coordinate with cross-functional partners across Supply Chain, SPG, JOLT, and Business Units, driving alignment where decision paths are ambiguous.
- Produce executive-ready updates, decision documents, and business cases to ensure accountability and communicate progress to leadership.
What you'll need
- Degree in a quantitative field such as Computer Science, Industrial Engineering, Statistics, or equivalent.
- 4+ years of experience developing software or business intelligence tools in an agile environment.
- Understanding of or direct experience in operations, supply chain, manufacturing, product management, systems engineering, or quality.
- Working proficiency with SQL and Python for data analysis, scenario simulation, and data quality validation.
- Experience building and maintaining analytical models and trackers using Excel.
Nice to have
- Proficiency in statistics, data science, and/or AI/ML.
- Previous experience implementing new workflows into existing business processes, or design and implementation of change management.
Skills: project plan, project management tools, cost schedule performance, multifunctional design teams, engineering and business process expertise
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This role has been open 192 days — well above the 50-day median for Technical Program Management roles.
Technical Program Management · Manufacturing Equipment
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Open roles in category
357
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Median days open
50 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$152k
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| Metric | Applied Materials | All employers we track in this specialty (357 roles · 42 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 90 | 357 |
| Median days open | 44 d | 50 d (−6 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $152k |
Skills observed across this category: project plan, project management tools, cost schedule performance, multifunctional design teams, engineering and business process expertise
Who's hiring in this category
- Applied Materials (this employer) · 91 open roles · median 44 d
- Lam Research · 70 open roles · median 50 d
- Micron Technology · 35 open roles · median 146 d
- ASML · 21 open roles · median 71 d
- Teradyne · 17 open roles · median 49 d
- KLA Corporation · 15 open roles · median 59 d
How we counted: 357 open Technical Program Management (Manufacturing Equipment) roles from 42 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 6 Nov 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there. Figures refresh nightly.