Technology & Operations plays an essential role in the company’s success by ensuring the delivery of high quality, scalable, cost-competitive technologies, and supply to create a competitive advantage for our customers. The Equipment Engineer is responsible for identifying and reducing tool sources of variation, maintaining, and understanding equipment performance, and reducing defectivity. Also, equipment engineering is defining tool qualification procedures, improving tool utilization and availability, reducing cycle time, identifying, and qualifying new tools, and leading development or transfer activities.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Responsible for multiple processes and tool ownership in a high-volume manufacturing facility
• Identify and reduce sources of variation, implementing zero defect processes, reducing defectivity, defining tool qualification/PM procedures, improving tool utilization and availability, reducing cycle time, identifying, and qualifying new tools, and supporting development or transfer activities.
• Sustaining – lead troubleshooting efforts, manage critical part inventory, direct supplier activities, responsive to SPC/ FDC excursions, writing specifications, training maintenance techs…
• Improving – forming/executing plans for continuous improvements, implementing hardware/software upgrades, developing preventative actions to SPC/ FDC excursions…
• Expanding – increasing tool capabilities/throughput/availability, determining new sourcing for parts/service/toolsets, installation/qualification of new equipment/components.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a technical discipline is required, prefer mechanical or industrial engineering or similar.
• Experience in one of the following area’s Photo, Plating, Diffusion, CVD, Metals, Cleans, Metrology tools Preferred
• Manufacturing experience (semiconductor preferred) in process or equipment engineering over a variety of toolsets.
• Ability to interact professionally with manufacturing and process engineering to effectively understand problems and efficiently resolve them.
• Ability to generate, analyze, and interpret equipment performance data and produce a timely action plan to resolve recurring equipment failures.
• Demonstrated presentation skills with ability to present complex datasets and equipment problems/ solutions to diverse audiences.
• Competent in troubleshooting problems and capable of applying logic to identify and technical skills to understand actions needed to implement/verify the repair.
• Ability to deal with multiple issues and shifting priorities.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills. Candidate will be called upon to train others and write clear procedures.
• Self-motivated; able to take initiative and effectively prioritize work for self.
• Participating in and/or leading cross-functional teams fostering collaboration to achieve a specific goal.
• A strong desire to help create a positive, winning, world class working environment.
• Safety and Quality minded approach and work habit
• Must be able to obtain and maintain an Export Control Clearance

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NXP is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer regardless of age, color, national origin, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, status as a disabled veteran and/or veteran of the Vietnam Era or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, NXP will provide reasonable accommodations for otherwise qualified disabled individuals.