Staff Engineer Implant

Newport, UK, United Kingdom | Mfg. Equipment Engineering (MEQ)

Job Description

What you will do:

• Drive Implant area safety compliance.
• Ownership of a defined equipment toolset.
• Publish and own tool recovery plans for owned tool sets that have been down for > 24 hours
• Provide highly innovative solutions for non-standard equipment issues to enable tool recoveries from issues with very high cost or no obvious solution (even with Vendor support)
• Create / critique detailed technical procedures for Equipment PMs / Tool Operation / OCAPS
• Weekly monitoring and reporting of key tool indices (OEE, Availability, PM KPIs)
• Drive OEE improvement through baseline equipment analysis and improvement projects working with IE, Process, Integration, R&D, Vendors.
• Manage all scheduled maintenance for owned tool set.
• Lean manufacturing: Identify opportunities to eliminate waste within multiple toolsets - PM extensions, post pm qual reduction.
• 6S: take full ownership, drive improvement and set appropriate standards for 6S disciplines on toolset and ancillary storage areas.
• Own tool start-up process from purchase to release to Tier 2 for tool installations.

What you will need:

• Degree or HND/HNC in Mechanical / Electronic / Electrical engineering is preferred.
• A good level of semiconductor Implant engineering experience.
• Able to demonstrate expertise within the Implant area. Experience in areas such as AMAT 9500, XR, Axcelis GSD 200 E2, Axcelis 8250, Axcelis Purion, equipment is essential.
• Some familiarity with final operations semiconductor process equipment.
• Familiar with all modern manufacturing concepts such as; JIT, Kaizen, Zero Defects, SPC, TQM and TPM.
• Experienced in driving continuous improvement activities and projects for assigned measurables.
• Highly motivated, results orientated customer service orientated, leadership and communication skills.
• Some PC / Software repair and recovery skills would be an advantage.
• Have a detailed understanding of facilities requirements for tools.