Diffusion Equipment Engineer

Job Title:
Diffusion Equipment Engineer

Business Line Description:
Front End Operations plays an essential role in the company’s success by ensuring the delivery of high quality, scalable, cost-competitive technologies and supply to create a winning advantage for our customers.

Job Summary:
The Diffusion Equipment Engineer opportunity is in a high-volume semiconductor wafer manufacturing environment. Prior experience with ownership and responsibility for the maintenance, troubleshooting, repair and productivity of manufacturing tools/processes is required. Previous experience with SVG VTR7000, AVP8000, TEL Alpha 8S and/or TEL Alpha 8SE Waves furnaces and Lumonics Laser Scribe is highly desirable.

Key Challenges

·         Identification and reduction of recurrent machine faults

·         Sourcing and installing new equipment

·         Reducing defectivity

·         Defining tool maintenance procedures

·         Training technicians and peers

·         Improving tool utilization and availability

·         Reducing cost

·         Reducing scrap

·         Supporting development activities

·         Developing and writing specifications

·         Implementation of Six-Sigma statistical process control methods

·         Capacity planning and modeling

·         Participating in and/or leading cross-functional and lean activity teams

Job Qualifications:

·         BS in an engineering discipline.

·         5 years’ experience in equipment engineering in a high-volume semiconductor manufacturing environment.

·         Previous experience in at least one or more of the following tools/processes preferred: SVG VTR7000, AVP8000, TEL Alpha 8S and/or TEL Alpha 8SE Waves furnaces and Lumonics Laser Scribe.

·         Working knowledge of associated furnace pumps and abatement system desrired.

·         Ability to generate, analyze, and interpret equipment performance data and produce a timely action plan .to resolve recurring equipment failures.

·         Demonstrated presentation skills. Candidates will be called upon to train others and present complex datasets and equipment problems/solutions to diverse audiences.

·         Competent in troubleshooting problems and capable of applying logic to isolate and repair.

·         Ability to deal with multiple issues and fluid priorities.

·         Strong verbal and written communication skills.

·         Ability to interact professionally with manufacturing and process engineering to deal with these issues and priorities.

·         Good foundational problem-solving skills with creative solutions and out-of-the-box thinking.

·         Self-motivated; able to take initiative and effectively prioritize work for self.

·         A strong desire to help create a positive, winning, world class working environment.

·         Previous experience in Lean Manufacturing methods is highly desirable.

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