Manager-Equipment Engineering

Equipment Engineering Manager

We are seeking an experienced equipment manager to lead a combined team of equipment engineers and equipment technicians supporting Microchip's wafer fabrication operations in Lawrence, Massachusetts. As Equipment Engineering Manager, you will oversee the performance, reliability, maintenance, and continuous improvement of critical fab equipment while developing a skilled, collaborative technical organization.

Responsibilities include:

• Leading, mentoring, and developing a team of 5-7 equipment engineers and equipment technicians.
• Establishing team priorities, staffing plans, performance expectations, and development goals aligned with fab objectives.
• Ensuring effective coordination between equipment engineering, equipment technicians, manufacturing, process engineering, maintenance, and facilities.
• Assigning and prioritizing daily engineering and technical support activities based on production needs, equipment performance, safety, and business priorities.
• Directing equipment sustaining activities, including troubleshooting, preventive and predictive maintenance, equipment recovery, upgrades, and lifecycle management.
• Ensuring technicians have the training, tools, procedures, spare parts, and technical support needed to perform work safely and effectively.
• Driving corrective and preventive actions that improve equipment performance and prevent recurrence.
• Initiating or leading teams for equipment installation and equipment upgrades.
• Managing equipment improvement projects, capital requests, supplier relationships, schedules, budgets, and risks.
• Developing and maintaining equipment standards, operating procedures, troubleshooting guides, maintenance strategies, and technical documentation.
• Ensuring compliance with cleanroom, safety, environmental, quality, ESD, and applicable regulatory requirements.
• Promoting a culture of safety, accountability, technical excellence, teamwork, and continuous improvement.
• Providing leadership support for production issues, including occasional off-shift, weekend, or on-call activities as required.
• As needed providing or coordinating support for a sister fab in Lowell Massachusetts.

Requirements/

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical, electrical, manufacturing, industrial, mechatronics engineering, or a related technical field.
• 8+ years of experience supporting semiconductor wafer fabrication equipment and processes such as lithography, etch, deposition, implant, diffusion, CMP, clean, metrology, or wet processing.
• 3 or more years of experience managing or leading both engineering and technical personnel.
• Demonstrated experience troubleshooting complex semiconductor manufacturing or automated equipment.
• Experience with equipment reliability, preventive maintenance, qualification, upgrades, and continuous-improvement projects.
• Strong knowledge of structured problem-solving and root-cause-analysis methods.
• Experience managing projects, priorities, resources, schedules, and budgets.
• Demonstrated ability to coach technical employees, assess performance, resolve conflicts, and build effective teams.
• Strong written, verbal, interpersonal, and cross-functional communication skills.

Preferred Requirements/

Qualifications:

• Experience with vacuum systems, robotics, motion control, PLCs, sensors, machine vision, industrial networks, or automated material-handling systems.
• Knowledge of statistical process control, fault detection, equipment monitoring, reliability-centered maintenance, Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, or Kaizen.
• Experience with equipment installation, site acceptance testing, qualification, technology transfer, and capital-project execution.
• Experience managing equipment suppliers, contractors, and service providers.

U.S. Export Controls Requirements:
This job requires access to technology, materials, software or hardware that is controlled by the export laws of the United States. Candidates are required to provide proof of either US citizenship, Permanent US residency or classification as a protected individual as defined in 8 USC 1324b (a) (3).

Travel Time:

0% - 25%

Physical Attributes:

Hearing, Seeing, Supervises Others, Talking, Works Alone, Works Around Others

Physical Requirements:

70% sitting, 15% standing, 15% walking

Pay Range:

The annual base salary range for this position, which could be performed in the US, is $91,000-$247,000.
* Range is dependent on numerous factors including job location, skills and experience.

Microchip Technology Inc is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.