Senior HR Programs Specialist

About the role

KLA, a global leader in electronics for the semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem, is hiring a Senior HR Programs Specialist in Hsinchu. This hands-on individual contributor role partners with HR stakeholders to identify and fix organizational and people-process challenges, analyzing structures, responsibilities, workforce data and work processes to deliver improvement initiatives. It emphasizes analytical thinking, sound judgment and delivery.

Key responsibilities

• Partner with HR partners and functional specialists to understand priorities, gather employee and manager input and define the problem to be addressed.
• Analyze organizational structures, reporting relationships and cross-functional handoffs, identifying unclear ownership, duplication and process gaps.
• Develop practical options with evidence, resource implications, risks and success measures, then review them with stakeholders and secure approval.
• Manage HR improvement projects or workstreams independently, tracking milestones, resolving issues and escalating risks with recommendations.
• Support change-impact and readiness assessments, prepare communication materials and track adoption of changes.
• Map and improve HR workflows, clarify handoffs, document approved practices and support implementation.
• Prepare analysis and materials for discussions on role clarity, team collaboration and ways of working, and facilitate sessions with HR partners.
• Translate engagement findings and employee feedback into proposed actions, and support targeted development where capability gaps are found.
• Clean, reconcile and analyze workforce, organization, engagement and process data, validate definitions and calculations, and present analysis and recommendations to stakeholders.
• Handle sensitive organizational information with discretion and involve HR or legal specialists on employee-relations or compliance concerns.

Required profile

• Preferred experience in semiconductor, technology, engineering, manufacturing or other complex matrix organizations.
• Preferred exposure to organizational design, workforce planning, employee engagement or change implementation across functions.
• Independent problem-solving, data literacy, HR stakeholder collaboration and disciplined execution.

Required skills

• Familiarity with Workday, Power BI or comparable HR and reporting tools is an advantage.

What we offer

• A competitive, family-friendly total rewards package designed to reflect an inclusive environment.