This position is a key member of the Engineering team, in charge of improving, sustaining and troubleshooting Metrology equipment.
What you will do
- Ownership of the site metrology equipment toolset – Initially under the guidance of existing tool owners
- Publish and own tool recovery plans for owned tool sets that have been down for > 24 hours
- Provide highly innovative solutions for equipment issues to enable recoveries avoiding very high cost or no obvious solution situations (even with Vendor support)
- Approve / Critique detailed technical procedures for Equipment PMs/Tool Operation/OCAPS
- Weekly reporting of key tool indices (OEE, Availability, PM KPIs)
- Drive availability improvement through baseline equipment performance analysis and improvement projects working with Process, Integration, R&D, Vendors.
- Assist in new product integration where tool modification or set up is required.
- Develop cross tool type capability (tool matching)
- Find innovative solutions for obsolescence in electronic and mechanical systems.
- Review all scheduled maintenance activities online through PROMIS TMS and improve efficiency.
- Lean improvement: Identify opportunities to eliminate waste within multiple tools - PM extensions, process simplification, qual reduction.
- 6S: take full ownership, drive improvement and set appropriate standards for 6S disciplines on toolset and ancillaries/storage areas.
- Own tool start-up process from purchase to release to Tier2 for tool installations in conjunction with process team and equipment experts.
- Develop a detailed understanding of facilities requirements for tools.
Qualifications and Education Requirements
- Degree/HND in Scientific discipline is preferred.
Desired Skills
- Ability to work under pressure.
- Desire to drive a root cause analysis culture.
- Experience and desire to repair / upgrade and develop older technology systems.
- Ability to work flexible hours.
- Ability to work effectively in teams.
- Ability to empower and listen to others.
- Ability to develop knowledge of wafer fab manufacturing equipment and systems
- Familiar with all modern manufacturing concepts such as; JIT, Kaizen, Zero Defects, SPC, TQM and TPM.
- Desire to drive continuous improvement activities and projects for assigned measurables.
- Highly motivated, results orientated customer service orientated, strong communication skills.
