NPI Planner & Office Administrator

Headquartered in Lowell, Massachusetts, MACOM is certified to the ISO9001 international quality standard and ISO14001 environmental management standard. MACOM has multiple design centers, Si, GaAs, GaN and InP fabrication, manufacturing, assembly and test, and operational facilities throughout North America, Europe, Asia. In addition, MACOM offers foundry services that represents a key core competency within our business. The foundry provides access to, and control of our broad range of proprietary technologies in an asset light, cost effective structure. 

MACOM sells and distributes products globally via a sales channel comprised of a direct field sales force, authorized sales representatives and leading industry distributors. Our sales team is trained across all of our products to give our customers insights into our entire portfolio.

Our global organization of skilled engineers is driven every day to solve the world’s most demanding wireless and wireline application challenges. We’re proud of our more than sixty years’ of hands-on experience designing and building analog semiconductor technology across the RF to Light spectrum.

NPI Planner & Office Administrator 

Job Description:

This role is responsible for ensuring continuous supply of pre-production & engineering materials to support new product development and customer demands at MACOM’s Northampton, MA Center of Excellence so that we can design RF, microwave, and millimeter-wave products.  Additionally, this person will perform a variety of administrative tasks as the chief office administrator.

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for engineering material planning and execution
• Procurement & sourcing engineering supplies
• Issue, receive, and manage purchase orders and requisitions
• Manage inventory of raw materials, prototype samples, finished goods, and conversion of raw stock builds to production
• Monitor engineering builds, WPI, and backlog to proactively identify potential material shortages and carry out creative and novel solutions
• Collaborate with all stakeholders and participate in project meetings
• Shipping engineering materials
• Establish and oversee a party planning committee to organize events, celebrations, and team-building activities
• Generation of engineering documentation
• Administrative office project tracking
• Proactively look at all equipment to ensure working condition.
• Responsible for fixing or coordinating facilities related issues
• Responsible for keeping break areas, lunchroom, copy areas, and conference rooms neat & orderly
• Responsible for cubicle maintenance, set-up, and breakdown 
• Manage janitorial crew and/or subcontractors
• Maintain lab area with all maintenance issues
• Responsible for coordinating furniture moves in the office and lab areas
• Responsible for set-up and clean-up after large meetings.
• Keeping up to date and maintaining a passion for the latest advances in office administration practices.
• Advocate for office administration as a function and core competency within the company.
• Must work independently and communicate with all levels of management
• Work with landlord or building manager to address unforeseen issues.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, administrative studies, or equivalent experience
• Prior experience with administrative management of a medium sized organization desired
• Familiarity with ERP and PLM systems such as SAP and Agile
• Excellent computer skills including a mastery of tools such as Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Paint as well as Zoom collaboration tools. 
• Additional computer skills such as Photoshop, SAP, Adobe Acrobat Professional, Airtable, and AI tools such as ChatGPT are a huge plus.
• Bona fide office administration and organizing enthusiast
• An unquenching thirst for making order and out disorder
• Unparalleled interpersonal and organizational skills
• Team player with a high degree of flexibility and will work toward common goals inter-departmentally and across functions.
• Medium mathematical skills or better.
• Skilled at prioritization and multi-tasking, with the ability to work in a fast-paced setting and manage assignments from multiple managers with tight and competing deadlines
• Basic understanding of engineering vocabulary and jargon a plus.
• Fluent in spoken and written English
• U.S. citizen, national, or permanent resident

The position is full time (40h) and is available to US Citizens, Nationals, or Permanent Residents (US Green Card holder).