Job Abstract

As the Equipment Engineering Manager, you will thrive in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented manufacturing environment. You will work safely and constructively in collaboration with a cross-functional team of personnel from Manufacturing, Process, Yield, R&D and Industrial Engineering to improve equipment uptime, stability, and efficiency across a wide range of toolsets. You will provide leadership to a team of equipment engineers who are responsible for best-in-class performance in our Wafer Fab Operation.

This posting is for a position that will directly support Operations at the Newbury Park, CA Wafer Fab.

• Provide guidance and strategic direction to a team of Equipment Engineers who support a 24x7 Wafer Fab.
• Establish creative problem-solving methods with Equipment Engineering for complex unscheduled equipment downtime situations.
• Drive preventative maintenance programs for production processing and support equipment.
• Own and drive continuous improvement efforts for equipment failing to meet performance KPIs.
• Conduct analysis of tools down > 24-hours, wafer scrap, or wafer scrap near misses.
• Create and modify procedures and preventative maintenance specifications to increase tool availability and enhance training procedures.
• Maintain documentation specific to the Equipment Engineering team.
• Drive standards, certification, and training as needed for all Equipment Technicians.
• Develop and maintain spare parts strategies that support uptime goals.
• Establish KPIs, track performance improvement plans, maintain scorecards and present technical data to management.
• Manage area budget goals and continuous improvement projects (CIPs) to meet equipment performance KPIs.
• Analyze data using sound statistical methodology to drive improvements in equipment and process metrics.
• Support and influence 5S methodology, ensuring the workplace is clean, uncluttered, safe and well organized to reduce waste and optimize productivity.
• Work closely with the Production and Process Engineering Teams to improve Safety, OEE and Quality metrics for the fab.
• Take the lead to establish relationships between multiple manufacturing sites and engineering departments to achieve best-in-class performance.
• Build a highly capable team and challenge the organization to drive best-in-class equipment performance, cost, and stability.
• Travel occasionally to various manufacturing and vendor sites to drive improvement and maintain management systems.

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, Chemical, or related field) with 12 years of related experience (or MS with 8 years or PhD with 5 years).
• Experience in a manufacturing, equipment or process engineering role within a manufacturing environment. 
• Experience in a managerial or leadership role.
• Strong organizational and planning abilities, independent thinking, attention to detail, and excellent troubleshooting and hands-on background.
• High energy, self-motivated attitude with strong communication skills and ability to interface effectively with peers and team members at every level.
• Experience with highly automated material handling systems.
• Previous experience utilizing OEE measurements to drive improvement in equipment productivity.
• Lean manufacturing experience with demonstrated ability to implement standard work, visual management, error proofing, root cause analysis and value stream mapping tools.
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience of Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) program concepts.

• Working knowledge and experience of applied statistics (SPC/DOE) and structured problem-solving methods such as 8D, 5 whys, A3 and DMAIC in a manufacturing environment.
• Ability to work on several projects simultaneously and demonstrated success in complete process ownership within a 24x7 manufacturing environment.