Project Director – Semiconductor Tool Install
Location: Boise, ID
Project Duration: Up to 2 Years
Relocation/Travel: Local, relocation, and traveling candidates considered
Per Diem: $4,895/month available for qualified travelers
Urgent Need
Position Overview
We are seeking an experienced Project Director / Tool Install Director to lead a major semiconductor tool installation program in Boise, ID.
This position requires someone who has led semiconductor tool install from the contractor/EPCM execution side. We are specifically looking for a leader who has been responsible for delivering the work inside a client's fab — managing the construction organization, coordinating OEMs and trades, controlling schedule and budget, and ultimately turning completed tools over to the owner.
Owner-side vendor management experience alone will not qualify for this position.
The program is currently in design, BIM modeling, and preconstruction, with construction and tool arrivals scheduled to begin in Q4 2026. The current plan calls for approximately 600 tools installed over 12 months, averaging roughly 50 tools per month, with the potential for acceleration and an additional phase of work.
What We're Looking For
The ideal candidate has worked for an EPCM, EPC, general contractor, specialty contractor, or tool-install contractor executing semiconductor projects for fab owners.
This person should have previously:
- Led a semiconductor tool install program end-to-end
- Managed large design and construction organizations of approximately 50–100+ personnel
- Led fab hookup and utility connection execution
- Coordinated multiple OEMs, subcontractors, construction teams, and stakeholders
- Owned the master schedule, project budget, manpower planning, and execution strategy
- Managed installation through commissioning and final turnover
- Served as the senior client-facing leader for the program
- Managed scope, commercial issues, change orders, risks, and project performance
- Driven aggressive tool-install schedules in an active semiconductor environment
Key Responsibilities
- Provide overall leadership for a large-scale semiconductor tool install and hookup program
- Lead the program from preconstruction and design coordination through construction, commissioning, and turnover
- Build and manage the field organization as the project ramps into full execution
- Direct Project Managers, Construction Managers, Superintendents, coordinators, and supporting project personnel
- Coordinate multiple tool OEMs and trade contractors across concurrent installations
- Manage utility availability, tool hookup sequencing, construction readiness, and installation milestones
- Own overall schedule, cost, manpower, quality, safety, and project delivery
- Coordinate BIM/design activities with field execution requirements
- Develop recovery and mitigation plans when schedule or construction issues arise
- Manage scope changes and change-order activity
- Lead client meetings and provide executive-level reporting on schedule, budget, risk, and performance
- Maintain strong relationships with owner representatives, OEMs, subcontractors, and project stakeholders
- Drive tools through construction completion, testing, commissioning, and successful handoff to the owner
Program Scale
The program is currently staffed with senior project, construction, and design leadership and is expected to grow significantly as construction begins.
Current planning includes:
- Approximately 600 semiconductor tools
- Approximately 50 tool installations per month
- 12-month primary installation window
- Construction/tool arrivals beginning Q4 2026
- Field leadership organization expected to grow to 20+ Construction Managers/Superintendents
- Potential second phase based on program performance
Required Qualifications
- Significant semiconductor fab construction and tool-install experience
- Proven leadership experience with an EPCM, EPC, GC, specialty contractor, or tool-install contractor
- Must have personally led major tool-install execution rather than solely overseeing contractors from the owner's side
- Demonstrated experience managing large multidisciplinary construction teams
- Strong understanding of tool hookup, utilities, MEP systems, sequencing, commissioning, and turnover
- Experience coordinating multiple OEMs and contractors simultaneously
- Demonstrated ownership of project schedules and budgets
- Strong commercial experience including scope management and change orders
- Executive-level client communication and relationship-management skills
- Ability to operate effectively in a high-volume, schedule-driven semiconductor construction environment
- Open to working onsite in Boise, ID
Ideal Background
We are looking for a true contractor-side semiconductor construction leader who understands what it takes to take hundreds of tools from design and preconstruction through hookup, commissioning, and final owner turnover.