Senior Shift Equipment Engineer - Wafer Fab/Semiconductors

Join a world leader in Opto-Electronics and III-V Technologies with a salary up to 65K, shift allowance, share options, and fabulous benefits. The company is at the cutting edge of AI Chip Development and is in a period of expansion.

Key Skills:

• Strong all-round background (Electrical/Mechanical) in Equipment Maintenance within a semiconductor environment.

The Company:

A market-leading manufacturer of innovative optical and photonic products enabling optical networking and commercial laser customers worldwide.

The Role:

You will provide Equipment Engineering support to the Manufacturing and Process Engineering groups within a Wafer Fab. This will include day-to-day production equipment support, fault finding & repair of production equipment and associated systems, driving improvement initiatives to increase uptime & OEE, working with specialist tools that process various hazardous chemicals, and potentially the use of self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA).

Key Responsibilities:

• Repair and preventative maintenance (PMs) of specialist semiconductor processing equipment, including any preparation work and routine cleans.
• Oversee chemical, gases and spare parts control, chemical fills and waste management.
• Instruct and mentor equipment technicians and junior equipment engineers in various aspects of equipment engineering.
• Liaison with equipment and spares suppliers and specialist service providers (including the supervision of external contractors and field service engineers).
• Develop and deliver preventative maintenance strategies to maximise equipment utilisation, OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) and up-time.
• Ensure that team members are motivated towards achieving objectives of the group, and ensuring objectives are clearly communicated to them where necessary.
• Ensure cross training of Equipment Technicians and Engineers in order to meet engineering and manufacturing requirements.
• Responsible for driving Total Productive Maintenance practices within the Engineering group.
• Define, allocate and monitor the progress of key improvement projects in an 8-step format and ensure that these are completed in a timely manner.
• Responsible for producing monthly reports detailing equipment performance, status of key improvement projects and metrics which will be circulated to the Engineering Management team.
• Responsible for representing the group at production, planning and scrap meetings.
• Work with supply chain to add the Wafer Fab Equipment spare parts inventory into stores and help manage stock levels and critical spares.
• Adhere to all site safety and environmental procedures.
• Support of site emergency response function.
• Provide shift cover as required.

Qualifications:

An HNC/HND or Degree in an engineering discipline (or equivalent) and/or 10 years of directly related experience.

Your Skills and Experience:

• At least 5 years' experience within a semiconductor manufacturing environment.
• Ability to follow documented procedures without close supervision.
• Ability to document procedures, including experience of generating new work instructions, risk assessments and method statements.
• Good time-management and organisational skills.
• Computer literate with the ability to use the Microsoft Office suite of applications.
• Experience of working in a team and managing stakeholders.

Desirable:

• Experienced in the maintenance and repair of Semiconductor manufacturing equipment including, but not limited to the following vendors: ASML, Trikon/SPTS, OiPT, Palomar, Temscal, Leybold, Leica, SemiTool.

Please note - The ability to attend site is essential, the site is situated in a rural location and is not served by public transport.