Lead, Material Process Engineering

Overview

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Job Title: Lead, Materials Process Engineering

Job Code: 33329

Job Location: Tempe, AZ

Job Schedule: 9/80:
Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off.

• Collaborate with the Engineering Manager and other departmental engineers to coordinate project requirements and communicate current status
• Charter and lead projects with Engineering Team to improve process capability, reduce cycle time and/or labor cost, as assigned
• Estimate, negotiate, monitor, and report process development and qualification schedule
• Create various types of documentation (for use in production) using a variety of tools, including engineering and production review and release. Familiarity with Team Center is a plus.
• Required ability to professionally and effectively communicate, both verbally and in writing.
• Written - use of multimedia tools for briefings, ability to write procedures and reports. Verbal - ability to provide briefings in small to medium size groups of technicians, engineers and management
• Conduct research and development activities concerned with the improvement of various materials processes, typically around vacuum deposition of films.
• Lead and support the design and implementation of novel and improved materials handling and deposition processes.
• Enhance engineering team understanding of methodology through team collaboration and expertise sharing.
• Drive reduced process variation supporting proper documentation and publicized statistical process control.
• Oversee special projects, purchase required materials, assemble and verify operation, and coordinate validation testing in production environment
• Requirement Reviews – Participate in reviews and work with manufacturing, product design and systems engineering to ensure proper implementation of features
• Develop work instructions for operational use of processing tools and support equipment as needed.
• Ability to obtain a US security clearance

• Bachelor's Degree in Materials Science Engineering or relevant major with 9 years prior experience in process development, 2 year post-secondary/AA Degree and 8 years prior experience or Graduate Degree with 7 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 years of prior related experience.

• In-depth knowledge and application of physics, engineering principles, and concepts associated with various vacuum deposition techniques.
• Experience in process development of ALD, Sputtering, E-Beam Evaporation, MBE and other vacuum deposition techniques desired.
• In-depth knowledge of semiconductor and thin-film metrology techniques for vacuum deposition process development and control highly preferred, including:
  Ellipsometry, ECV, SIMS, Photoluminescence.
• Lean Manufacturing and/or Six Sigma Green Belt
• Experience with FPGA along with associated test and control applications

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