Senior Equipment Engineer

Who We Are:

Companies developing automotive, mobile, IoT and illumination lighting applications need a partner who can collaborate with them to push the boundaries of light. With over 100 years of inventions and industry firsts, Lumileds is a global lighting solutions company that helps customers around the world deliver differentiated solutions to gain and maintain a competitive edge. As the inventor of Xenon technology, a pioneer in halogen lighting and the leader in high performance LEDs, Lumileds builds innovation, quality and reliability into its technology, products and every customer engagement. Together with its customers, Lumileds is making the world better, safer, more beautiful—with light.

Headquartered in the Netherlands, Lumileds has approximately 9,000 team members supporting operations worldwide. 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):

• Candidate must possess at least a Degree in Engineering (Electrical/Electronics, Material Sciences, Mechanical or equivalent with minimum 3 years’ working experience in wafer fabrication industry.
• 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.

Years of Experience (Minimum)

• 3 - 5 years

Licenses / Certifications

• N/A

Preferred Qualifications:

• If none, enter N/A

Lumileds is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer