A minimum of five years of experience in a high-tech maintenance environment.
Understanding of mechanical, electrical, and electronic engineering disciplines, including the ability to follow electrical drawings and circuit diagrams for equipment troubleshooting.
Responsibilities
Closely monitor tool-owner equipment performance against specified targets and ensure issues are addressed promptly.
Monitor expenditure on assigned tools and minimize costs while maintaining required performance levels.
Ensure relevant maintenance documentation and spare parts are available to meet module performance requirements.
Apply a continuous improvement strategy to bring tools to the best possible condition.
Liaise with tool vendors to identify equipment enhancements that may improve process quality or equipment reliability.
Monitor tools for parts obsolescence and ensure plans are in place to address part failures.
Participate in new tool selection, installation, and implementation into the fab or process.
Implement quality and safety standards and procedures for the defined equipment set.
Provide technical support and training to module engineers on tool-owner equipment.
Provide maintenance support to shift engineers when resources are low.
Work with the process tool owner to ensure tool process performance remains as expected.
Cover or assist other dayshift tool owners when required, including work on unfamiliar tools.
Desired Qualifications
Semiconductor equipment engineering experience.
MOCVD equipment tool ownership experience.
A minimum HNC in Electrical, Electronic, or Mechanical Engineering, or suitable experience.
We are seeking a Dayshift Equipment Engineer within Equipment Engineering in our Epitaxy module. This is a key role reporting to the Module Manager and will involve working in close collaboration with both Engineering and Manufacturing personnel to support stability and CI to further enhance our capability as a leading R&D organisation.
The role responsibilities focus on ensuring optimum performance on a varied high-tech equipment toolset within the department. The position requires a multi discipline skilled Engineer with mechanical, electrical and electronic Engineering skills and requires the use of analytical and continuous improvement techniques to optimise equipment performance and maximise tool availability.
Closely monitoring tool owner equipment performance against specified targets, ensuring any issues are addressed in a timely manner.
Monitoring spend on their tool and keep to a minimum whilst maintaining required performance levels.
Ensuring relevant maintenance documentation and spares are available to meet required Module performance.
Operating a continuous improvement strategy to bring tools to the best possible condition.
Liaising with tool vendor to stay up to date with and identify equipment enhancements which may improve process quality or equipment reliability.
Ensuring the tool performance meets the procurement specification level.
Monitoring tools for part obsolescence issues and ensuring plans to cope with part failure exist.
Participating in new tool selection, installation and implementation into the fab/process.
Ensuring that quality and safety standards and procedures are implemented on the defined equipment set.
Providing technical support and training to module engineers on tool owner tools.
Providing maintenance support to shift engineers when resource levels are low.
Working closely with the process tool owner to ensure tool process performance remains as expected.
Covering or assisting other dayshift tool owners when required which may include working on unfamiliar tools.
A minimum HNC in Electrical or Electronic or Mechanical Engineering is preferred or suitable experience.
An understanding of all 3 disciplines (must be able to follow electrical drawings and circuit diagrams to facilitate tool trouble shooting).
Minimum 5 years’ experience in high tech maintenance environment.
Advantage
Semiconductor equipment engineering experience would be an advantage.