Manager - Industrial Water & Waste Systems Area (Semiconductor Manufacturing)

Location: Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Company

hirify.global develops and operates advanced semiconductor manufacturing facilities with a focus on innovation, safety, quality, and continuous improvement.

What you will do

• Lead engineering, maintenance, operations, and technical activities for industrial water, wastewater, reclaim, and hazardous waste systems.
• Drive system hardening, redundancy, resilience, reliability, and elimination of single points of failure across critical utility infrastructure.
• Lead root cause failure analysis and implement sustainable corrective and preventive actions across multiple sites.
• Recruit, coach, mentor, motivate, and direct leaders, engineers, technicians, and other facilities staff.
• Support facility system start-up and commissioning, regulatory compliance, service and project negotiations, and power purchase agreement terms.
• Manage performance metrics, operating expenses, annual planning, uptime, reliability, and cost-reduction initiatives while collaborating with facilities and business leaders.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemical, Environmental, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field.
• 8–12+ years of experience in industrial water/wastewater engineering and operations.
• Demonstrated success in system hardening, optimization, cost reduction, quantifiable OPEX savings, and reliability improvements.
• Experience supporting multi-site organizations; experience leading and mentoring engineering and operations teams is preferred.
• Strong expertise in water systems including RO/DI, UF, ion exchange, filtration, and reclaim.
• Strong expertise in wastewater systems, including chemical and advanced treatment processes.
• Strong understanding of process integration, automation, and PLC/SCADA systems.
• Proficiency in data analytics, performance trending, and process optimization tools.
• Ability to lead enterprise-wide initiatives without direct authority, with strong coaching, mentoring, talent development, communication, stakeholder influence, analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Hands-on leadership style with a people-first, cost-focused mindset.

Nice to have

• Semiconductor or advanced manufacturing experience.
• Familiarity with emerging regulatory challenges such as POTW compliance.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment in a safety- and quality-focused environment.
• Continuous improvement, innovation, employee development, and removal of operational roadblocks are emphasized.
• Continuing education assistance is available for students.
• Employee Resource Groups and local outreach opportunities support community involvement.
• Equal opportunity employment is provided regardless of legally protected characteristics.