Teams at MKS Instruments

Lead strategic sourcing and cost-reduction initiatives for the Brazil organization: perform market and spend analysis, drive vendor consolidation, negotiate contracts, manage category strategies, ensure supplier SLAs, and collaborate with stakeholders to report savings and progress.

Prepare and release job tickets with drawings and documents in SAP, maintain material release progress, optimize on-time delivery and machine utilization, coordinate with logistics/warehouse/production/engineering, monitor WIP and troubleshoot, and support supervisor-assigned activities.

Lead a team to transfer, install, and improve manufacturing build processes for new products; manage NPI projects, schedules, budgets, tooling, line layouts, capacity planning, training, and cross-functional issue resolution while driving Lean and continuous improvement.