Engineer, Quality Engineering

From smartphones to solar panels, innovative technology is needed to create the devices we use every day. Silfex’s silicon components help make that technology a reality. Silfex Inc., A Lam Research Company is the leading provider of precision silicon components used to make and operate semiconductor tools, which enable the trillion-dollar global electronics industry. Our company’s products are integral to the semiconductor equipment and optical markets.

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The Supplier Development Reliability Engineer will support Silfex internal and external supplier-related development projects while driving equipment, process, tooling, and manufacturing reliability improvements. This role will work with suppliers and internal teams to design, improve, and develop next-generation equipment, technologies, tooling, consumables, processes, subcontracting, outsourcing, and alternate solutions in support of Silfex business needs. This role will also focus on improving uptime, reducing repeat failures, improving maintainability, strengthening process capability, and ensuring critical equipment and processes perform reliably in a repeatable manner.

• Use reliability tools such as FMEA, PFMEA, DFMEA, risk assessments, and failure trend analysis to identify and reduce risk before issues impact safety, quality, delivery, or cost.
• Develop and support reliability strategies for critical equipment and processes, including preventive maintenance, predictive maintenance, spare parts strategy, condition monitoring, and reliability-centered maintenance activities.
• Track and analyze reliability metrics such as downtime, failure frequency, mean time between failures, mean time to repair, repeat failure rate, equipment availability, and maintenance effectiveness.
• Partner with maintenance, operations, engineering, suppliers, and technicians to improve equipment uptime, reduce firefighting, and create practical solutions that can be sustained on the shop floor.
• Review new equipment, tooling, automation, and process designs for reliability, maintainability, serviceability, safety, spare parts needs, and long-term total cost of ownership.
• Experience with design of custom machines, automation systems, and tooling.
• Lead full machine development cycles from concept to commissioning.
• Collaborate closely with machinists, engineers, project managers, operations, maintenance, and suppliers.
• Manage multiple concurrent projects with a focus on quality, cost, delivery, reliability, and long-term supportability.
• Guide and mentor engineers and designers.
• Interface with customers and internal teams to develop project requirements and deliver practical solutions.
• Proactively identify potential issues and engineer solutions before they arise.
• Lead root cause analysis on repeat or significant equipment, tooling, process, and supplier-related failures; drive corrective actions that prevent recurrence.
• Balance engineering innovation with practical manufacturing and design conditions.
• Provide expertise in manufacturing processes critical to manufacturing at Silfex and subcontract partners, including silicon growing, grinding, drilling, electro discharge machining, lapping, polishing, bonding, cleaning, and metrology.
• Manage and support suppliers to advance the state of the art for all applicable processes and equipment.
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