Maintenance Engineer, Diffusion

YOUR ROLE

The Equipment Maintenance Engineer is responsible for supporting, optimizing, and improving production equipment and related systems to ensure high availability, reliability, safety, and performance. The role typically involves troubleshooting equipment issues, driving corrective and preventive actions, supporting installation and qualification activities, and contributing to continuous improvement initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the operation, maintenance, and optimization of manufacturing equipment
• Troubleshoot equipment failures, downtime, and process-related issues
• Analyze equipment performance data and identify root causes of recurring problems
• Define and implement corrective and preventive actions to improve reliability and productivity
• Support equipment installation, commissioning, relocation, and qualification activities
• Collaborate with production, maintenance, process, quality, and industrial teams
• Participate in equipment spare parts strategy and maintenance planning
• Contribute to equipment upgrades, modifications, and obsolescence management
• Ensure equipment complies with safety, quality, and regulatory requirements
• Prepare technical documentation, procedures, reports, and improvement proposals
• Support continuous improvement projects such as yield, cycle time, OEE, and cost reduction
• Provide technical guidance and support to technicians or junior engineers when required

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related technical field
• Experience in equipment engineering, maintenance
• Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills
• Good knowledge of mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, or automation systems
• Ability to work in a production environment and handle multiple priorities
• Good communication, teamwork, and problem-solving skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in semiconductor, electronics, or high-volume manufacturing environments
• TEL Furnace or other Diffusion Furnace Maintenance experience highly preferred
• Equipment performance real time monitoring through sensors via micro-controllers (eg. STM32)  / Raspberry Pi computers as part of FDC (Fault Detection Control)
• Familiarity with equipment qualification, preventive maintenance, and reliability tools
• Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing, TPM
• Exposure to statistical analysis and root cause analysis methodologies