Principal Cleans Equipment Engineer

Cleans Equipment Engineer

NXP's Front End Operations plays an essential role in the company's success by ensuring manufacturing excellence and delivery of high quality, scalable, and cost-competitive semiconductor devices to create a winning advantage for our Customers.

The Cleans Equipment Engineer opportunity is in a high-volume semiconductor wafer manufacturing environment. Prior experience with ownership and responsibility for the maintenance, troubleshooting, repair, and productivity of manufacturing tools/processes is required. Experience with Akrion SCP9400, Akrion GAMA and Screen WS-820L or similar style wet etch platforms is highly desirable.

Key Challenges:

• Identification and reduction of recurrent machine faults
• Creation of hard down action plans driving to root cause
• Sourcing and installing new equipment
• Reducing defectivity
• Defining and improving tool maintenance procedures
• Training technicians and peers
• Improving tool utilization and availability
• Reducing overall cost of equipment and scrap
• Supporting development activities
• Developing and writing specifications
• Implementation of Six-Sigma statistical process control methods
• Capacity planning and modeling
• Participating in and/or leading cross-functional and lean activity teams

Job Qualifications:

• Must have a BS or MS degree in engineering or a degree in relevant field of study
• 10 years' experience in equipment engineering in a high-volume semiconductor manufacturing environment
• Previous experience in the following tool/process preferred: Akrion SCP9400, Akrion GAMA and Screen WS-820L or similar style wet etch platforms
• Ability to generate, analyze, and interpret equipment performance data and produce a timely action plan to resolve recurring equipment failures
• Demonstrated presentation skills. Candidate will be called upon to train others and present complex datasets and equipment problems/solutions to diverse audiences.
• Competent in troubleshooting problems and capable of applying logic to isolate and repair
• Ability to deal with multiple issues and shifting priorities.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to interact professionally with manufacturing and process engineering to deal with these issues and priorities.
• Good foundational problem-solving skills with creative solutions and out-of-the-box thinking.
• Self-motivated; able to take initiative and effectively prioritize work for self.
• A strong desire to help create a positive, winning, world class working environment.
• Previous experience in Lean Manufacturing methods is highly desirable.

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.