Equipment Engineer: Fusion Bar Fab

Job Summary: The Equipment Engineer is responsible for ensuring the safe, reliable, and efficient operation of manufacturing equipment within the Fusion Bar production area. This includes equipment maintenance, troubleshooting, repair, installation, qualification, performance optimization, and continuous improvement activities to support both production and new product development objectives. Manufacturing equipment supporting the Fusion Bar production area, including: 1. Cleaving 2. Stacking / Unstacking 3. Riber MBE 412 Passivation 4. E-Beam Coating - PVD 5. FiconTEC UMB Testing This role requires a combination of equipment engineering, process understanding, automation knowledge, reliability engineering, and project management to support both production and new product development activities. Also required to lead Technicians on daily basis to ensure tool availability and project completion. **Primary Duties & Responsibilities** - Help drive a safe and high-quality equipment team. - Maintain effective communications between EES, process engineering, quality, test and manufacturing to ensure optimal tool availability. - Drive improvements on existing Equipment and Process roadblocks / mindsets using data driven material and methods. - Effectively influence and collaborate with colleagues, partners, and cross-functional teams beyond direct reporting structures. - Drive outcomes through influence rather than authority, leveraging trust, communication, and credibility across teams. - Own and develop KPI and Projects while collaborating with Process Engineers in order to improve existing and expand new development Processes. - Develop and implement preventative maintenance programs to ensure optimal equipment performance. - Develop new concepts of maintenance to eliminate or reduce major equipment failures and extended downtime. - Identify and correct and chronic problem areas, using both on-site and off-site equipment expertise. - Provide necessary data for decision making while working /developing relationships with Equipment Suppliers / Vendors to improve tool capabilities. - Maintain a high level of expertise within the group by assisting in the training and development of EES technicians. Provide technical expertise and support of new equipment selection and tool sign off. - Direct and manage the installation of new equipment. Develop, edit and maintain PM documents. - Manage spare parts requirements for assigned tool sets - Drive equipment issues to root cause and implement corrective and preventive actions. Assist EES technicians with PM's and repair as needed. - Lead technicians on complex tool repairs to include Action plan creation and hands on support until resolved. - Provide timely updates/communications on Equipment status to Management as well as Camstar System - Coordinate maintenance activities with EES Manager and EES Technicians.. - Give directions to Equipment Technicians regarding priorities on a day-to-day basis. - Participate in 5Y and 8D analysis as needed. - Required to travel both Domestically and Internationally if / when needed. - Carry Company provided cell phones, maintaining communications to provide 24/7 factory support. **Education & Experience** - Preferred Minimum Education - 4 Year college degree or Military Electronics certification (will be considered based on years of semiconductor experience) - Expected Minimum Years of Related Experience - 10+ years experience working on wafer processing equipment or related experience - Preferred: maintenance knowledgeable in multiple of the following equipment: - Cleaving, Stacking/Unstacking, Riber MBE 412 Passivation, E-Beam Coating (PVD), and FiconTEC UMB Testing systems - Plasmatherm LAPECVD, Matrix Asher, Lam rainbow, Oxford ICP, KLA/SPTS ICP **Skills** - Knowledge of basic computer skills and software programs such as: - Microsoft Word - Microsoft Excel - Microsoft Outlook - Microsoft PowerPoint - Must understand and have the ability to troublesh…