Equipment Maintenance Section Manager

Equipment Maintenance Section Manager

Bold thinking. World changing. At Sky Water, our ingenuity helps improve lives around the world by manufacturing U.S. made semiconductors that are essential ingredients of modern life. Automotive safety enhancements, life-saving medical devices, consumer electronics and American security require semiconductors. Working in our Minnesota headquarters, Florida, or Texas location — employees join together to improve the world. Explore what's possible. Joining our U.S.

- based team means contributing to and learning about the commercialization of some of the most exciting technologies the world has ever seen. We are turning "science fiction" into everyday reality through technologies such as superconducting, 3D integrated circuits or computer chips, carbon nanotubes, photonic logic devices, micro electro-mechanical systems and other emerging device topologies. We manufacture products for aerospace and defense, medical, automotive, consumer and industrial markets, to name a few.

Our customers include emerging leaders who rely on our intellectual property security and quality manufacturing services. Step into the future. Sky Water's values of Integrity, Excellence, Collaboration, Empowerment and Growth Mindset guide us to cultivate an empowered, learning environment. We also invest in developing highly skilled, dedicated employees — and employees who are entering the workforce for the first time, from the military, and a variety of educational backgrounds.

Are you bold thinking? Find your place on our team and help us change the world!

• Manage equipment technicians in the FAB for all tool types and disciplines.
• Manage all equipment metrics for continuous improvements.
• Serve as a key player in planning to support continuous growth and efficient equipment operation.
• Manage vendor contracts to achieve results, when needed.
• Promote and maintain a safe work environment for all employees.
• Ensure all processes and systems are compliant with regulations.
• Manage, develop, and mentor equipment technicians across all shifts.
• Build and improve systems to ensure all manufacturing equipment is safe to operate and manufactures quality product.
• Lead technicians with resolving unplanned down events and driving permanent root cause corrective actions, using lean processes, procedures, and problem-solving tools.
• Make daily resource allocation decisions, balancing competing priorities, to serve the needs of the process, equipment, and manufacturing teams.
• Drive cost reduction efforts to help achieve cost management and savings goals.
• Provide technical leadership and management of 200MM and 300MM semiconductor processing equipment in support of advanced packaging processes including fan out wafer level packaging, interposers, hybrid wafer to wafer bonding, and die to wafer bonding. Highly desirable for a candidate to have a background in at least one of the following areas: wafer dicing/grinding/singulation, photolithography, PVD and/or CVD thin films, dry etch, wet etch /wafer clean, diffusion, bond, electroplate (ECD), CMP, or metrology, probe/test (some areas may be combined).
• Work with process engineering and equipment maintenance technicians to drive root cause corrective actions of equipment failures, implement permanent solutions, and eliminate chronic and long-term down events.
• Participate in cross-functional teams that create efficiencies across all layers of the organization.

• Experience as a manager, supervisor, engineer, or technician in semiconductor or equivalent education and experience as follows:
• Requires HS diploma with 12+ years' experience, Associates degree with 8+ years' experience, or BS degree or higher with 5+ years' experience.
• Demonstrated knowledge of preventive and corrective maintenance of semiconductor manufacturing equipment.
• Outstanding communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Demonstrated ability to meet commitments and deliver results, while being able to adapt to changing priorities.
• Ability to manage, execute and track multiple projects simultaneously and shift priorities to meet business needs.
• Experience with…