Senior Equipment Engineer

Senior Equipment Engineer
Location:
Northampton


Shift: Week 1 (6am 2pm) Week 2 (2pm
-10pm)
Responsibilities:

• Repair and preventative maintenance (PMs) of specialist semiconductor processing equipment, including any preparation work and routine cleans.
• Oversee chemical, gases and spare parts control, chemical fills and waste management.
• Instruct and mentor equipment technicians and junior equipment engineers in various aspects of equipment engineering.
• Liaison with equipment and spares suppliers and specialist service providers (including the supervision of external contractors and field service engineers).
• Develop and deliver preventative maintenance strategies to maximise equipment utilization, OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) and up-time.
• Ensure that that team members are motivated towards achieving objectives of the group, and ensuring objectives are clearly communicated to them where necessary.
• Ensure cross training of Equipment Technicians and Engineers in order to meet engineering and manufacturing requirements.
• Responsible for driving Total Productive Maintenance practices within the Engineering group.
• Define, allocate and to monitor the progress of key improvement projects in an 8-step format and to ensure that these are completed in a timely manner.
• Responsible for producing monthly reports detailing equipment performance, status of key improvement projects and metrics which will be circulated to the Engineering Management team.
• Responsible for representing the group at production, planning and scrap meetings.
• Work with supply chain to add the Wafer Fab Equipment spare parts inventory into stores and help manage stock levels and critical spares.
• Adhere to all site safety and environmental procedures.
• Support of site emergency response function.
• Provide shift cover as required.

• At least 5 years experience within a semiconductor manufacturing environment.
• Ability to follow documented procedures without close supervision.
• Ability to document procedures, including experience of generating new work instructions, risk assessments and method statements.
• Good time-management and organizational skills.
• Computer literate with the ability to use the Microsoft Office suite of applications.
• Experience of working in a team and managing stakeholders.
• Experienced in the maintenance and repair of Semiconductor manufacturing equipment including, but not limited to the following vendors: ASML, Trikon/SPTS, OiPT, Palomar, Temscal, Leybold, Leica, Semi Tool.
• An HNC/HND or Degree in an engineering discipline (or equivalent) and/or 10 years of directly related experience.