Cleanroom Maintenance Engineer

At Custom Interconnect we plan to succeed and never fail! Our values dictate that we have an unrivalled passion for providing the best Electronics Manufacturing Support on offer, with an honest and open attitude to business. Our vision is to be customers’ first choice for the manufacture of mission critical, high technology electronics, adding value globally, and we are dedicated to delivering innovation and service excellence by investing in design, build and fulfilment of our Customers Products. Formed in 1987, as a company CIL have grown steadily to become one of the major Electronics Manufacturing Service companies available today. Located in Andover, Hampshire, our 2 manufacturing facilities comprises 80,000sq ft of modern production space to meet our customers’ needs.

As a clean room maintenance engineer, you will maintain CIL’s clean room facility and manufacturing equipment to a high functional standard, ensuring it remains ready to fulfil its semiconductor packaging production and engineering build requirements. More specifically:

• Responsible for the reliable, safe and compliant operation and maintenance of cleanroom facilities, environmental-control systems, utilities and associated manufacturing infrastructure within CIL’s ISO7 semiconductor assembly and test environment.
• Work closely with OSAT Process Engineering, Production and Quality to ensure the manufacturing environment consistently maintains clean room conditions, utilities and supporting equipment operational, minimising downtime and maintaining the required standards of cleanliness.
• Assist Process Engineering to define and document low level Daily, Weekly and higher level Monthly and Quarterly maintenance tasks as part of standard operational procedures.
• Monitor schedules for Daily/Weekly maintenance tasks as carried out by Production as part of ensuring equipment preventative maintenance schedules are met.
• Carry out higher level Monthly/Quarterly equipment maintenance tasks in accordance with the established maintenance schedule.
• Ensure equipment service requirements are met by organising annual service/calibration visits by equipment suppliers in a timely manner.
• Investigate equipment faults or poor performance and repair where possible in the event of breakdown, and/or contact external service engineers and support when on-site.
• Assist Production and Process Engineering to correct instances of process drift or equipment poor performance and identify/implement opportunities for improvement.
• Identify and periodically review equipment critical spares lists and ensure the storage and maintenance of all machine spares held in stores.
• Identify and periodically review equipment consumables and ensure the storage and maintenance of all consumable items held in stores.
• Identify equipment needs for manufacturing program electronic back-ups and work with the IT Team to ensure the periodic updating and safe storage of all back-up media.
• Maintain and service all LEV systems within the clean room to ensure safe and functional compliance for Production and Engineering team use.
• Assist external LEV contractors and/or auditors to optimise and maintain all clean room LEV systems.
• Support the Production team in sourcing and positioning improved and/or additional benches, trolleys, racks and ESD facilities – test stations, ESD mats.
• Support CIL Maintenance team to ensure all clean room teams and equipment have safe and functional access to utilities: e.g. compressed air, electrical power, nitrogen, water, waste-water drainage.
• Liaise with external contractors/providers to improve clean room utility provision where required, e.g. compressed air, electrical, nitrogen supply.
• Support the Process Engineering team and CIL Maintenance in all activity involving the movement of equipment, i.e. installation of new equipment into the clean room, movement to a new location within the clean room or removal of equipment from the clean room to a new site.
• Assess requirements for the timely installation of all new equipment prior to commission by the provider; pre-clean of equipment upon delivery, transfer into the clean room, movement and position to clean room location and provision and connection to all required utilities and/or LEV systems.
• Support both the internal and external audit programs and function as the first point of contact for audits concerning clean room and clean room equipment maintenance.
• Maintain and service the clean room HVAC system and all associated filtration and ducting to ensure the clean room remains compliant to ISO7 standard in accordance with BS EN ISO 14644.
• Recruit, train and mentor a small team of maintenance technicians, when required, to be competent in all clean room and equipment maintenance activities.
• Day-to-day management of clean room maintenance technicians: daily tasks, development, time-and-attendance and general discipline.

Key Skills and Competencies:

• A minimum of 2 years’ experience working in a Maintenance Engineering role and within a manufacturing/engineering environment.
• Experience of working with and maintaining clean room environmental controls, such as HVAC, HEPA filtration and LEV systems designed to function within an ISO7 clean room.
• Experience of working within an organisation certified to one or more of the following standards: ISO 9001, AS 9100, ISO 13485, IATF 16949.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (or equivalent), for using spreadsheets and generating written documents.
• Ability to communicate with internal and external stakeholders at all levels of the business.
• Experience in working with electronics manufacturing equipment, and equipment specific to semiconductor manufacturing, e.g. wafer dicing saws, die bonders, wire bonders.
• Ideally educated to HNC level (Level 4) or degree level in a discipline relevant to Company needs, such as Electronic, Electrical or Mechanical Engineering.
• Experience in working with Process Engineering and Quality teams to analyse collect and interpret SPC data, Product failure modes, maintenance data, particulate counts to spot trends and identify opportunities for improvement specific to maintenance routines.
• Experience in working within a 6S environment and working with internal stakeholders to maintain and monitor a 6S standard of working environment.

Additional Information:

• Number of positions: 1
• Contact: Name: Olivia McGonigal Phone: +441264883071

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