Process Engineer -III

7200 NW Front Ave, Portland, OR 97210, USA

Reports to:

Process Technology Team Leader

Date written/updated: 4/13/01

The purpose of this position is to provide process engineering support in the manufacture of high-quality silicon wafers. This position involves two major components, sustaining of existing processes, and development and introduction of new processes. The sustaining component provides support through continuous improvement activities such as yield and capability improvements, process transfers, and root cause analysis and corrective actions for customer related and internal quality issues.

The development component provides support through implementation of the Technology Strategy, ensuring capable processes are developed in a sufficient time frame to support future customer needs.

• Ability to consider short and long-term consequences of project implementation.
• To identify and contain problems found in the field.
• Prioritize daily project list based on the needs of the team or work cell.
• Identify needs in department to report appropriate information to supervisor.
• Determine most appropriate method for implementing equipment and process operating instructions.
• Determine optimal testing methodology, and proper analysis of results for PTNs, as needed.
• Determine which test data is suitable for input.
• Determine if process monitoring and data indicates corrective action is required.
• Determine what individual method of material will produce quality product and a healthy work area.
• Corrective action relative to process and / or equipment.
• Decide development alternatives for achieving Technology Strategy targets, as needed.
• Equipment decisions and Process Decisions, based on QFD & FMEA analysis, as needed.
• Determine best test method for statistical analysis.
• Disposition of discrepant material daily.

• Build project teams and prepare specifications and scope of work for vendors, consultants, and contractors.
• Diagnose root causes of line down issues, yield deterioration, and productivity loss of exceptional difficulty.
• Provide a leadership role in process transfers to and from other business units.
• Point of contact with salespersons.
• Ability to perform Defect identification and analysis.
• Job content depends to a large degree on a particular process area.
• Monitoring assigned process to determine stability.
• Troubleshooting equipment set points.
• Participate in process transfers to and from other business units.
• Plan, control and execute engineering development projects in accordance with existing policies and accepted engineering practices, and follow applicable Engineering standards, project management tools, problem solving and quality tools.
• Prepare process operating instructions for manufacturing and maintenance.
• Support project leaders, as assigned, with data entry and analysis of situations and data. Propose and prepare design solutions.
• Assign and delegate process tasks to others in relation to tests, PTN, and procedures.
• Define and support PTN and PIN activities, and maintain process documentation and procedures.
• Collect and analyze data to monitor current process, optimize process, and develop new processes.
• Evaluation of processes and equipment performance and determine corrective action.
• Provide specialist expertise in diagnosis of root causes for line down issues, yield deterioration, productivity loss.
• Provide expertise at a process level for productivity improvement via process optimization.
• Drive continuous improvement of yields, productivity, on-time delivery and other measures of success across team.
• Provide expertise at a process level for cost reduction activities via process and process supply optimization.
• Evaluate process supply / support requirements.
• Research market in order to determine the availability of tools to assist you in your job and to research what others are doing in your field to optimize processes.
• Interface with suppliers and customers.
• Prepare specifications and scope of work for vendors, consultants and contractors.
• Maintain a professional and mutually satisfactory technical interface with counterparts within and…