Project Manager

About the Position

Join RiseTech as a Project Manager to lead technical development programs in semiconductor manufacturing. This role is pivotal in ensuring that RiseTech's commitments to partners and internal teams are met on time. It involves managing timelines, bridging technical disciplines, and leading project management functions.

Responsibilities

• Own the development timeline, external and internal. Scope, milestones, deliverables, and critical path for every joint development program with partners, and for every internal process development program. One baseline, one set of dates, visible to everyone.
• Bridge microfabrication and electrochemistry. Own the joint process development plan across the two disciplines: sequence the work, set the dependencies, and keep both sides working to the same confirmed assumptions.
• Run the weekly and monthly planning rhythm. Weekly planning across process, metrology, microfabrication, and sample flow; monthly re-baselining; a capacity view that is honest about what the lab and the tools can actually absorb in a given week.
• Monthly program review with the CEO and the leadership team: status against baseline, what slipped and why, and the decision needed, brought as an option rather than as a problem. Weekly status, change control, and escalation towards the partner’s program office, on their cadence and in their format.
• Own the program budget. Build and defend the budget of each program (external services, materials, tooling, and laboratory time), track spend against plan, and flag an overrun while it can still be corrected, not at closing.
• Build and lead the project management function. No direct reports in year one. From year two, recruit and lead the JDP Program Manager and the project engineers the portfolio requires, and set how the function works. Day to day you lead without a hierarchical line, across teams that do not report to you.
• Manage risk before it becomes a slip. Keep the risk register alive, force the mitigation decision early, and protect the milestone rather than explain it afterwards.
• Close the loop on results. A program is finished when the process is qualified and the data is there, not when the Gantt is green. Enough traceability that a partner can follow a decision, without building a quality bureaucracy this company does not need yet.

Requirements

• Degree in Engineering, Physics, or Chemistry.
• 10+ years running technical development programs, where the thing had to be developed before it could be delivered. Pure delivery, IT, or construction project management is not what this role needs.
• Experience in semiconductor or advanced manufacturing equipment is strongly preferred: front-end, advanced packaging, capital equipment, or an equally hard process and equipment development environment.
• Chemistry or electrochemistry exposure is a strong plus: plating, wet processing, surface treatment, coatings, or batteries.
• Customer-facing development programs, not internal projects only.
• Credibility with engineers: you can read a DoE, challenge an estimate, and tell a technical risk from an excuse.
• Critical path, capacity planning, risk registers, change control, and re-baselining.
• PMI-PMP certification (Project Management Professional), or an equivalent credential: PRINCE2 Practitioner, IPMA Level B or C.
• Project management tooling: MS Project or equivalent, used for critical path, resource leveling, and baselines.
• Agile and Scrum: sprints on the internal process development side, stage gates kept for the partner-facing milestones.
• Fluent English, written and spoken. Italian is a plus.

Nice to Have

• Experience in semiconductor or advanced manufacturing equipment.
• Chemistry or electrochemistry exposure.

We Offer

• Growth: dedicated Learning & development budget.
• Financials: relocation package, performance-based bonus (MBO), and meal vouchers.
• Well-being: health insurance plan and supplemental pension fund.

About the Company

RiseTech is at the forefront of semiconductor manufacturing, dedicated to pushing the boundaries of technology. We are a small, dynamic team working in short cycles, where mistakes are visible and fixed in flight. We value people who say what they think early and change their mind when the data says so.

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If you are passionate about leading technical development programs and want to be part of a team that is shaping the future of semiconductor manufacturing, apply now.

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