Senior EPI Equipment Engineer

Job Title:

EPI 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 EPI 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 on ASM Epsilon 2000 Epitaxial platform is highly desirable.

Demonstrated duties include but not limited to:

• Identification and reduction of recurrent machine faults
• Sourcing and installing new equipment
• Reducing defectivity
• Defining and improving 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
• 10 years’ experience in equipment engineering in a high-volume semiconductor manufacturing environment
• Previous experience in the following tool/process preferred: ASM Epsilon 2000 Epitaxial
• Ability to generate, analyze, and interpret equipment performance data and produce a timely action plan to resolve recurring equipment failures
• Demonstrated presentation skills. Candidate 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 shifting 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.