Member of Technical Staff - Equipment Engineering

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Fab 9 is seeking a Pump, Chiller and Scrubber MTS Equipment Engineer. The selected individual will be part of the Manufacturing Engineering organization with responsibilities focused on the performance of vacuum pumps, chillers, and various abatement systems used in Fab 9. Responsibilities will include activities associated with cost of ownership, tool performance, and strategic planning. Cross‑functional activities will include partnering with equipment engineers, facilities, environmental, quality, logistics, global supply management and contract repair personnel.

• Deliver uniform solutions to improve cost of ownership of Fab 9 pumps, chillers, and scrubbers.
• Improve preventative and corrective maintenance procedures and root‑cause understanding to improve uptime performance and equipment stability.
• Launch and drive new programs that track pump failure modes across the factory and drive chronic failure improvement.
• Drive strategic planning and CAPEX to enable investments that achieve longer lifetimes, commonality, and address obsolescence.
• Contribute to ONEGF benchmarking to share and learn best practices with other PCS teams.
• Leverage on‑site MES and ERC repair where applicable.
• Partner with inventory planning team to ensure cost avoidance of new buys with properly planned rework loops.
• Improve supplier quality by defining incoming quality requirements to improve first‑time right, improve warranty claim recovery rate, and reduce DOA rate.
• Own pump and chiller service contracts in Fab 9, defining key metrics to measure service‑contract performance.
• Lead onsite PCS team: interlock with the team, prioritize tool downtime, expand scope, and improve the work.
• Must be mechanically inclined and able to lead hands‑on, tactical troubleshooting efforts to resolve long‑term performance issues; must be able to deconstruct and understand complex systems.

• Perform all activities in a safe and responsible manner and support all Environmental, Health, Safety & Security requirements and programs.
• Other duties as assigned by manager or supervisor.

• Education – Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Materials Science, Solid State Physics or other relevant discipline plus 6‑7 years of experience; or MS plus 5‑6 years of relevant experience; or PhD plus 3‑4 years’ relevant experience.
• Experience – minimum 6‑7 years of technical equipment experience working on 200 mm/300 mm semiconductor platforms.
• Understanding and knowledge of Statistical Process Control (SPC) and Design of Experiments (DOE).
• Ability to work effectively and efficiently with diverse teams, customers, internal and external partners.
• Language fluency – English (written and verbal).
• Minimum of 10 % travel may be required.

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$98,000.00 – $ (exact salary will be determined based on qualifications, experience and location).

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