
Lab Operations Manager
Intel · Arizona
- Level
- Manager
- Team
- Production
- Base pay
- $138k–$227k
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 5+ years
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- 9 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A management production role at Intel (industrial) in Arizona. You'll influence strategic decisions, drive operational excellence, and partner with talented teams across engineering and business functions.
- They ask for
- 5+ years · degree required
- Tools it names
- Root cause, Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ), Automation, SAP
- Base pay
- $138k–$227k
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From the plant jobs report · week of October 19, 2026
Production Engineer roles in the US: typical posted base $116k–$158k. This one lists $138k–$227k.
Median of the low and high ends of 241 live postings that list pay, out of 787 production engineer openings in the US, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
Arizona plant jobs report →Pay by team and state →What moves pay →
How this role compares
Against 12 other live production postings in Arizona.
- Experience asked
- Less than usual (5+ vs 8+)
Similar roles usually ask 8+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- Team leadership 62%
- Lean 62%
- Tooling 38%
- Six Sigma 38%
- ✓ Root cause 31%
- ✓ Automation 31%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
Stands out: this posting asks for Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ), which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.
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The Role
As a Lab Operations Manager, you will lead a team responsible for delivering reliable, scalable, and efficient lab operations that support engineering development and validation activities. You will collaborate with engineering, infrastructure, IT, and business partners to ensure lab environments, equipment, and services meet business needs while driving continuous improvement and operational excellence.
What You’ll Do
qualifications
to be initially considered for this position.
requirements
and are considered a plus factor in identifying top candidates.
and Experience
Bachelor's degree in Engineering, IT, Computer Science, Operations Management, or related field, or 5+ years of equivalent experience.
You must have 5+ years of experience in the following
- ✓Experience managing laboratory, engineering, data center, or technical operations.
- ✓Lab infrastructure, hardware systems, networking, asset management, and IT support.
- ✓Experience with safety, quality, compliance, audits, equipment calibration, and process improvement.
At least 1 year experience with any 3 or more of the following: DCG PSE/SSL standardized tools including ServiceNow, SAP, iConsole, LaMP, AGS, HSD-ES, ISM, or SharePoint.
and Experience
- ✓Experience developing operational strategies and roadmaps.
- ✓Experience ramping a new team from scratch to support Lab operations.
- ✓AI adoption including experience with CoPilot, Gemini, and GitHub.
Ready to Make an Impact?
If you are a collaborative leader who thrives in complex technical environments, enjoys developing high-performing teams, and is motivated by solving operational challenges at scale, we'd love to hear from you.
Apply today and help build the operational foundation that enables engineering teams to innovate, scale, and deliver technologies that shape the future.
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Job Description
Why Intel?
At Intel, you'll have the opportunity to lead critical operations that enable engineering innovation and technology development at scale. As a Lab Operations Manager , you'll influence strategic decisions, drive operational excellence, and partner with talented teams across engineering and business functions.
This role offers the opportunity to lead meaningful change, develop high-performing labs, and make a measurable impact on the technologies and solutions that shape the future. If you're energized by solving complex challenges, building strong partnerships, and creating environments where teams can thrive, we encourage you to apply.
will include but not limited to
- •Ramp a new Data Center Group (DCG) PSE/SSL Lab Operations team for Chandler DCG Labs to be a high-performing team of technical and operational professionals.
- •Oversee the standardizing of DCG lab operations at the site to standardized processes and tools, including infrastructure, equipment, asset management, logistics, networking, and support services.
- •Drive operational excellence through process improvement, automation, and standardization.
- •Partner with engineering teams to support development, integration, testing, and validation activities.
- •Manage lab assets and resources to ensure availability, efficiency, and compliance.
- •Establish operational priorities, performance metrics, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- •Collaborate across organizations to address challenges, remove barriers, and deliver business results.
- •Support strategic planning, capacity management, budgeting, and future lab growth.
- •Ensure compliance with environmental, health, safety, security, and quality standards.
- •Influence operational roadmaps and investments that support long-term organizational objectives.
Behavioral traits that we are looking for
- •Strategic Mindset: Ability to balance day-to-day execution with long-term planning while building scalable processes and capabilities that support future business needs.
- •Foundational Leadership and Standardization: Builds and unifies newly established site teams from the ground up, driving consistent adoption of standard processes, operational discipline, and new tools where prior frameworks did not exist.
- •Ownership and Accountability: Takes initiative, drives results, removes obstacles, and follows through on commitments while holding self and others accountable for outcomes.
- •Collaborative Leadership: Builds strong partnerships across engineering, infrastructure, IT, and business teams while fostering an inclusive, high-performing team environment.
- •Customer Focus: Understands stakeholder priorities and proactively delivers solutions that enable engineering success and business results.
- •Operational Excellence: Passion for continuous improvement, efficiency, quality, and data-driven decision making.
- •Problem Solving and Sound Judgment: Analyzes complex challenges, identifies root causes, and implements practical and scalable solutions.
- •Communication and Influence: Communicates clearly with technical and non-technical audiences and effectively aligns stakeholders to achieve shared goals.
- •Learning Agility and Adaptability: Embraces change, learns quickly, and remains effective while managing competing priorities in a dynamic environment.
- •Proactive Bias for Action: Anticipates risks and opportunities, takes initiative, and continuously seeks ways to improve team and organizational performance.
Intel invests in our people and offers a complete and competitive package of benefits employees and their families through every stage of life.
- •See Intel Benefits for more details.
Note
This position is not eligible for Intel immigration sponsorship.
Shift
Shift 1 (United States of America)
Primary Location
US, Arizona, Phoenix
Posting Statement
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