Regional Install Manager

To make electronics, you need chips, wafers, transistors, reticles, and... To make these, you must see, test and manufacture them at scale—faster and better than ever before. That's where KLA comes in. Whether you're early in your career or an experienced professional, you'll solve complex challenges, work alongside brilliant minds and help shape the future of technology.

What You'll Do

In this role, you will play a key part in advancing business priorities by delivering high-impact work across your area of expertise.

• Responsible for the timely and successful installation of KLA products at customer sites.  This primarily includes the scheduling of resources and the management of the overall installation (Tier1) and post Installation (Tier-2) process.
• Directly manages a team of Product Install Engineers and Application Engineers, provides directions to employees according to established policies and management guidance
• Oversee installation performance to ensure projects are completed according to plan. Proactively escalate issues to the appropriate functional groups and collaborate with HQ and Technical Support to resolve technical escalations, ensuring timely Warranty Start.
• Escalate installation activities to the KLA Service Product Install Manager as needed. Schedule and participate in SAMs and communicate project status to all stakeholders and upper management.
• Engage frequently with subordinates, customers, and management-level peers, delivering technical presentations on project status, schedules, and outcomes.
• Drive achievement of strategic objectives, including Cost of Install, Cost of Pre-warranty, Install Cycle Time, On-Time Install, and OOBQ.
• Manage costs through effective resource allocation, installation case management, and cross-charge oversight.
• Review installation documentation (eQuality checklists, NCs, pass downs) for accuracy and completeness.
• Attend meetings and prepare presentations and reports for KLA Service HQ and local Operations Management, providing clear updates on business status.

Minimum Qualifications

• BS/MS degree with applicable experience. 
• 3-5 years of work experience in supporting comparable capital equipment for the semiconductor industry is required.
• Project management and organizational skills
• Written and oral communication is both clear and concise
• Superior presentation skills.
• Good interpersonal/communication skills in understanding customer needs.

About KLA

We provide advanced inspection tools, metrology systems, process solutions, and computational analytics that make electronics possible, tackling complex challenges. From electron and photon optics to machine learning and data analytics, we seek perfection at the most fundamental level of matter in the universe. If you want to make electronics that push industries forward and make the world a better place, join us.

Use of AI Statement 

At KLA, our interviews seek to understand your individual skills, problem-solving approach and authentic thinking. To ensure a fair and consistent evaluation, the use of AI, recording tools or other technologies to generate, suggest or provide responses during interviews—whether virtual or in person—is not permitted unless explicitly approved in advance as part of a reasonable accommodation or invited by the interviewer. Use of these tools may interfere with our ability to evaluate your individual qualifications and affect your candidacy. KLA is committed to advancing innovation through responsible AI, and we value candidates who share this mindset.

We offer a competitive, family friendly total rewards package. We design our programs to reflect our commitment to an inclusive environment, while ensuring we provide benefits that meet the diverse needs of our employees.

KLA is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.