Owns wafer fab equipment tool sets, improving availability, performance, reliability, yield, quality, and cost. Designs maintenance programs, analyzes equipment metrics, writes procedures and troubleshooting guides, evaluates new equipment, manages installations and upgrades, supports technicians during troubleshooting, and maintains spare-parts BOMs. Requires cleanroom equipment maintenance experience and knowledge of electronics, electromechanical systems, vacuum, pneumatics, EHS, and Microsoft Office tools.
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As a member of the Equipment Engineering staff, the Wafer Fab Equipment Engineer will have ownership of one or more tool sets within a wafer fab manufacturing operation. Equipment Engineers are responsible for the overall availability and performance of their assigned equipment sets in accordance with SEMI E10.
Responsibilities will include:
- Design and implement maintenance programs to improve tool availability and reduce cost of ownership;
- Analyze equipment performance metrics (MTBF, uptime, MTTR, etc.) to determine areas for improvement;
- Write PM procedures, checklists, troubleshooting guides, and work instructions for your assigned equipment set;
- Evaluate and recommend the selection of new process equipment;
- Plan, manage and execute all assigned equipment installations or upgrades to the Fab or manufacturing equipment;
- Continuous improvement of reliability, availability, yield and quality as well as cost and scrap reduction support;
- Assists equipment maintenance technicians in the troubleshooting of critical down tools;
- Establish and maintain spare part Bill of Materials (BOMs) for assigned equipment.
Requirements:
- Solid background working in Equipment Maintenance supporting a 24/7 clean room manufacturing environment
- Ability to generate equipment work instructions
- Strong organizational, time management, and communication skills
- Basic understanding of Environmental, health, and and Safety requirements as related to Equipment Maintenance
- Basic understanding Electronics with the ability to read schematics
- Basic understanding of Electromechanical, Vacuum, and Pneumatics
- Can lead Equipment Maintenance in the troubleshooting to root cause of down equipment
- Strong computer skills to include Word, Excel, and Project.
Pay Range:
P40-USA-1 :$87,550.00 - $125,050.00Disclaimer:
Final base salary for the successful candidate will depend on multiple factors, including but not limited to, job location, where work will be performed, qualifications, work history and relevant experience. With our continual goal of making Lumentum a best place to work for our employees, we strive to offer employees competitive total compensation packages, which may include annual bonus, commission for certain sales roles, equity, and health and welfare benefits.
Lumentum San Jose, California, USA Office
1001 Ridder Park Dr, San Jose, CA, United States, 95131
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