Senior New Product Launch Manufacturing Engineer in Newport

To make electronics, you need chips, wafers, transistors, reticles, and... To make these, you must see, test and manufacture them at scale—faster and better than ever before. That's where KLA comes in. Whether you're early in your career or an experienced professional, you'll solve complex challenges, work alongside brilliant minds and help shape the future of technology.

What You'll Do

In this role, you will play a key part in advancing business priorities by delivering high-impact work across your area of expertise. This role will be based in Celtic Lakes. Our new 237,000-square-foot Newport facility provides additional production and customer collaboration spaces, including 25,000 square feet of R&D clean rooms, 35,000 square feet of state-of-the-art manufacturing space and tool demo areas, all designed to support development of semiconductor process technologies across advanced packaging, power devices, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), radio frequency (RF) and photonics sector technology. This is an exciting Senior role within our New Product Launch Manufacturing Design Engineering (MDE) team, focused on the design and development of improvements to product and processes to support manufacturing growth, new product, and continuous improvement projects! To be most effective our MDEs have an input in activities across the organisation and, as a result, have a unique ability to develop multi-functional relationships and contribute to the growth of both the MDE and their support teams technical capabilities.

Your day-to-day responsibilities

• Prepare feedback on Design for Manufacture to Product Design and New Product Launch teams
• Maintain product specs and BOMs with Solid Edge / Solid Works and/or AutoCAD Electrical
• Manage specifications with Enovia PLM - Training will be provided
• Lead multiple projects, working multi-functionally with our Operations and Engineering Teams
• Investigate and resolve technical challenges to support manufacturing processes
• Provide technical or product guidance to Supply Chain and Outsourcing teams
• Perform root cause analysis and implement appropriate corrective and preventative actions
• Generate, review, and approve Engineering Change Orders
• Understanding budgets and support CAPEX requests
• Implementing change, right first time, following our Product Lifecycle (PLC) process

KLA is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. For this role we are looking for someone who:

• Is Degree qualified in Engineering field plus proven experience in an operational/engineering role (semiconductor industry desirable)
• Has experience in project management
• Has excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Is proficient with Solid Edge / Solid Works and/or AutoCAD Electrical

What we will offer you

• Annual leave starting at 25 days (plus bank holidays)
• Contributory pension scheme
• Cash health plan
• Cycle to work scheme
• Global bonus plan
• Share scheme
• Rewards scheme
• Life assurance
• Generous shift allowance
• Overtime premiums

About KLA

We provide advanced inspection tools, metrology systems, process solutions, and computational analytics that make electronics possible, tackling complex challenges. From electron and photon optics to machine learning and data analytics, we seek perfection at the most fundamental level of matter in the universe.

If you want to make electronics that push industries forward and make the world a better place, join us.

Use of AI Statement

At KLA, our interviews seek to understand your individual skills, problem-solving approach and authentic thinking. To ensure a fair and consistent evaluation, the use of AI, recording tools or other technologies to generate, suggest or provide responses during interviews—whether virtual or in person—is not permitted unless explicitly approved in advance as part of a reasonable accommodation or invited by the interviewer. Use of these tools may interfere with our ability to evaluate your individual qualifications and affect your candidacy. KLA is committed to advancing innovation through responsible AI, and we value candidates who share this mindset. We offer a competitive, family friendly total rewards package. We design our programs to reflect our commitment to an inclusive environment, while ensuring we provide benefits that meet the diverse needs of our employees.

KLA is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not accept resumes from headhunters, placement agencies, or other suppliers that have not signed a formal agreement with us.

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