Jobs at MKS Instruments

Manages logistics control, import/export activities, forwarders, third-party warehouse relationships, and inventory processes. Uses SAP and internal communication tools to coordinate inbound and outbound movements with Sales Service, Import/Export, and Customer Service teams. Conducts physical inventory counts and warehouse audits, with occasional travel to the Osaka office and third-party warehouses.

Plans and maintains production schedules based on demand, inventory, materials, and manufacturing capacity. Coordinates with procurement, production, engineering, sales, and supply chain teams to address shortages, schedule changes, and capacity constraints. Analyzes production performance and recommends improvements to planning accuracy, resource utilization, and on-time delivery.

Supports end-to-end recruitment for Thailand and other APAC markets, including workforce planning, requisition development, sourcing, candidate screening, interview documentation, compensation offers, background checks, agency coordination, and recruiting program support. The role also builds talent pipelines, manages recruiting sources, supports campus hiring, and promotes the company to candidates and external partners.

No role-specific responsibilities or qualifications were provided. The posting contains general equal opportunity, export control, background check, drug screening, accommodation, and geographic employment statements.

Manage strategic global machining suppliers and support category strategy, sourcing, contracts, supplier performance, risk mitigation, dual sourcing, and new supplier introductions. Negotiate cost, delivery, lead times, and service improvements; conduct supplier reviews and oversee related projects. Requires 5+ years of supplier management experience in machining or a similar field, with up to 25% travel.

Leads product marketing for GMF and commodity products across Japan and Southeast Asia. Conducts market, competitor, sizing, and requirements analysis; develops localized product, pricing, launch, and marketing strategies with headquarters and regional sales teams. Supports product trials, performance improvement, on-site audits, and troubleshooting at major customer accounts. Requires extensive metal finishing industry experience, chemistry or materials education, strong analytical abilities, and excellent English communication.

Provides technical support to PCB manufacturing customers, advises on process parameters, monitors production quality, troubleshoots issues, trains client personnel, identifies sales opportunities, maintains customer relationships, and analyzes sales data. The role requires PCB process knowledge, English communication skills, customer-facing technical support, and up to 50% travel.

Commission and configure software systems integrated with industrial equipment, troubleshoot software and hardware issues, support PLCs and industrial communication protocols, ensure compliance with standards, and train customers and internal teams. The role requires extensive on-site travel for equipment installation and support, along with knowledge of electrical and mechanical systems, instrumentation, networking, diagnostics, and technical documentation.

Source global chemical raw materials while balancing cost, quality, service, and supply risk. Support procurement strategies, analyze raw material markets and pricing trends, collaborate with R&D and qualification teams, manage sustainability and chemical regulatory documentation, and implement qualified materials in SAP. The role also requires KPI delivery, safety compliance, and collaboration across global and regional procurement teams.

Serve as a strategic HR advisor to business leaders, lead talent management, organizational design, and change initiatives, and deliver scalable people solutions. Use workforce analytics to guide decisions, influence stakeholders, resolve employee matters, and support compensation, benefits, policies, compliance, and HR programs in partnership with centers of excellence.

Designs electrical systems for customer orders, including circuit diagrams and bills of materials. Supports production, maintains installation and inspection documentation, gathers cross-functional feedback, and improves standard designs. The role also requires adherence to health, safety, and environmental rules and collaboration with sales, customers, production, and quality teams.

Leads indirect procurement and strategic sourcing for manufacturing categories in China, including capital equipment, construction, facilities, and MRO. Manages supplier consolidation, sourcing projects, negotiations, contracts, cost-saving initiatives, supplier performance, and stakeholder engagement. Requires more than five years of indirect procurement experience, including leadership of manufacturing categories.

Designs mechanical systems and documentation for customer orders, including 3D/2D drawings and bills of materials. Partners with sales, customers, production, and quality teams, supports production, gathers feedback to optimize standard designs, and maintains installation, inspection, user, and spare-parts manuals. Requires adherence to HSE rules and familiarity with CAD tools, Microsoft Office, SAP, DFMEA, and tolerance analysis.

Manages strategic customer accounts and drives sales of laser drill systems to PCB manufacturers in Japan. Develops sales strategies, identifies new business, provides technical customer support, conducts market research, maintains forecasts and opportunity reports, and collaborates with product marketing, applications, and service teams in Japan and the United States. Requires PCB mass-production knowledge, Japanese and English fluency, customer presentations, and frequent domestic and international business travel.

Provides technical support for PCB manufacturing customers, advises on process parameters, monitors quality, troubleshoots production issues, trains customer personnel, identifies sales opportunities, maintains client relationships, and analyzes sales data. The role requires frequent customer communication and up to 50% travel.

Leads applications engineering strategy and a technical team in Japan for semiconductor equipment markets. Provides customer technical support, translates requirements to internal business units, qualifies opportunities, develops competitive positioning, supports sales pursuits, and drives timelines for customer projects. Regular customer visits, technical communications, and collaboration with sales and product experts are central to winning business and improving customer satisfaction.

Manages a test engineering team supporting high-volume manufacturing of RF and power products. Leads test equipment and program deployment, NPI-to-production transfers, production testing, automation, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement. Partners with quality, manufacturing, product engineering, site leadership, and international facilities to resolve yield and performance issues. Drives Lean Manufacturing initiatives, develops team capabilities, and ensures efficient, reliable testing and production processes.

Develops and executes manual and automated tests for software, hardware, and integrated systems. Creates test plans, cases, and scripts; performs functional, regression, performance, and stress testing; documents defects; collaborates with engineering and development teams; maintains testing documentation and prepares reports.

The Senior Quality Engineer partners with Quality to address customer quality issues, manage complaints, drive continual internal improvements, review quality data, and conduct internal and external process audits. The role requires a bachelor’s degree, five or more years of related experience, business-level English, native-level Japanese, and preferably a master’s degree and audit experience.

The Finance Controller will oversee Japan’s finance and accounting activities, including financial reporting, statutory compliance, audits, internal controls, shared-service processes, business partnering, and accounting operations. The role also leads the finance team and supports ad hoc finance initiatives. Candidates need extensive finance and accounting experience, strong knowledge of Japanese accounting and tax requirements, multinational company experience, and preferably manufacturing, CPA, or shared-service experience.