Equipment Engineer (Sputtering Tools) - #1092413

Who We Are:

Lumileds is a global leader in LED and microLED technology, innovation, and solutions for the automotive, display, illumination, mobile, and other markets where light sources are essential. Our approximately 3,500 employees operate in over 15 countries and partner with our customers to deliver never before possible solutions for lighting, safety, and well-being.

 The Lumileds environment is fast-paced, cutting-edge, intelligent and fun! We are looking for exceptional talent to join our team! To learn more, visit lumileds.com.

Who You Are:

Dynamic, energetic, able to work in an organization within a department and cross-functions.

Position Summary:

Lumileds is seeking a highly-qualified Engineer to take responsibility for Equipment ownership, ensuring equipment indices like MTBF, MTTR, uptime are met. Work with process and industrial engineers and Manufacturing to address issues pertaining to hardware. Work with vendors on equipment retrofit, upgrades and CIP.  

What You Will Do:                                                                                                                

• Equipment owner for PVD (Sputtering or evaporation) tool of Thermal Processing (Furnace or Rapid Thermal Process) tool

• Drive equipment fault investigations and continuous improvement programs to resolve chronic equipment issues and implement permanent resolutions to assure product quality and enhance process robustness.

• Maintain optimum utilization of equipment and resources, drive MTBF, MTTR and increase equipment throughput.

• Establish equipment maintenance controls, review and perform regular update of PM procedures, Risks Assessments and Troubleshooting guidelines.

• Perform simple modification on PVD (Sputter or Evaporator) or Thermal processing (Furnace or RTP) production equipment to improve machine efficiency and reliability.

• Work with Equipment Supplier for tool retrofit and to resolve equipment issue

• Drive cost reduction to weed out unwarranted expenses/wastages and improve equipment performance.

• Work on projects to establish alternate supplier to reduce cost

• Establish sufficient essential spares and consumables stock levels to support equipment maintenance.

• Lead and guide shift technicians on all equipment maintenance. Provide effective equipment trainings to the technicians to build up their technical competencies.

• Perform other duties as assigned by the manager. Duties will vary according to the project progress and/or the specific goals of the module.

What You Will Bring (REQUIRED Qualifications):

• Tool experience in SPTS sputter, Endura Sputtering equipment.

• Hands-on experience working on PVD (sputter/evaporation) or Thermal Annealing/Diffusion tools is required.

• Candidate with strong vacuum and plasma technical knowledge or has similar working experience in equipment maintenance is welcome to apply.

Education (Minimum Level)

·       Bachelor's

Field of Study

·       Electrical/Electronics, Material Sciences, Mechanical or equivalent.

Years of Experience (Minimum)

·       5 - 7 years

Lumileds is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer