Equipment Engineer II

7200 NW Front Ave
Portland, OR 97210, USA

Siltronic is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of highly specialized hyper pure silicon wafers. Being an international market player, we serve the semiconductor industry worldwide and partner with many leading chip manufacturers. Our global production network in Asia, Europe, and the USA includes today’s most advanced plants for 200mm and 300mm wafers. We provide a competitive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401k matching, educational assistance, and a quarterly success sharing bonus program.

The Equipment Engineer analyzes equipment performance metrics and maintenance data to drive continuous improvements in overall equipment effectiveness (OEE). Diagnoses complex engineering problems and delivers end‑to‑end solutions impacting reliability, uptime, yield, capability, and operating cost, including developing business cases and managing funded projects. Leads and oversees vendors, consultants, and contractors to ensure cost, performance, and schedule objectives are met. Develops, reviews, and enforces Energy Control Procedures, applying sound engineering judgment to ensure safe operations and regulatory compliance.

• Develop a complete understanding of equipment and support systems in assigned areas. Act as a trainer and certifier for maintenance technicians.
• Provide daily support to operations. Be aware of equipment status and priority. Monitor the direction and effectiveness of repairs and provide support as necessary to maintenance.
• Have a thorough knowledge of hazards and safety concerns for assigned areas. Identify and resolve equipment code, health and safety issues. Develop and review energy control procedures.
• Identify and implement improvements to equipment, maintenance programs and procedures. Maintain a Pareto of failure causes by frequency, cost, and downtime. Monitor trends in technical availability, TTRmax, MTTR and MTBF. Perform failure analysis of equipment and components. Develop and implement predictive maintenance methods. Make improvements to reduce unscheduled downtime and increase reliability of equipment.
• Develop and review preventative and planned maintenance requirements. Establish initial preventative maintenance tasks and schedules. Review PM’s regularly for effectiveness. Identify and schedule planned maintenance activities. Develop procedures where necessary. Review and optimize spare parts requirements.
• Identify and implement cost reductions. Track and trend the technical spending for assigned equipment. Identify and implement ways to reduce repair costs, qualify alternative spare parts and to reduce consumption of utilities and consumables.
• Work with process technology to identify and resolve equipment related yield issues. Develop methods to assign causes to yield excursions. Identify key equipment parameters which cause variation and establish SPC for these.
• Analyze engineering problems in detail and provide complete design solutions.
• Prepare project proposals and request for funding. Organize, direct and control the efforts of an engineering project team. Prepare project specifications and scope of work by vendors, consultants, and contractors. Review and select vendors, consultants, and contractors. Monitor and control the execution of projects for cost schedule and performance. Provide regular project reports and forecasts.
• Provide complete documentation, P.M. schedules and spare parts lists in connection with each project.
• Participate in special projects, cooperate with other team members and perform other duties as assigned. (secondary)
• Frequent work in clean rooms and areas where contamination is detrimental to product quality. (secondary)
• Work occasionally in hazardous areas involving potentially dangerous electrical power, chemical, and stored energy. (secondary)
• Responsible for understanding the hazards in the workplace, including hazardous waste handling and awareness. Required to remain up to date on applicable trainings.

Requires a B.S. degree in Engineering or equivalent experience, along with more than two years of…