Principal CMP Equipment Engineer

Job Description

Company Description

At Western Digital, our vision is to power global innovation and push the boundaries of technology to make what you thought was once impossible, possible.

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We offer an expansive portfolio of technologies, storage devices, and platforms for business and consumers alike. Our data-centric solutions are comprised of the Western Digital, G-Technology, SanDisk, and WD brands.

Today’s exceptional challenges require your unique skills. It’s You & Western Digital. Together, we’re the next BIG thing in data.

Job Description

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The Principal Equipment Engineer must have a strong Wafer Fab equipment engineering background and experience in the field of CMP tool set. He/She is responsible for the equipment specification, project management, design review, and tool qualification at the vendor site and install, qualify new tools. Further, He/She works closely with process engineering, maintenance, manufacturing, vendors, and other teams to define, improve, and monitor equipment reliability, throughput, and process capability. He/She defines preventative maintenance required for the tool set, deploys and monitors tool performance. He/She will continue to improve tool performance by adapting Lean Preventive Maintenance. By analyzing tool parameters, process capabilities will continue to design/modify tooling or software to bring best tool performance. He/She will create a bill of material and plan spare parts requirements depending upon the new technology and capacity requirement. He/She reviews, analyzes, and investigates equipment-related scraps and provides root cause analysis and effective corrective actions. Being an in-house technical equipment expert, he/she will be hands-on technical individuals with strong troubleshooting skills to help bring the tool up efficiently and effectively upon down-tool escalations.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Take ownership of the new equipment specification, technical negotiation with vendors, design and documentation review, tool installation, and qualification testing and documentation. Ensure project is on schedule, and at the same time deliver with the highest quality by proactively identifying and correcting capability, reliability, and maintenance issues early on. Generate accurate and detailed documentation for facility, maintenance, stores, and process owners.
• Lead or be an active team member to drive continuous improvement programs to improve equipment performance and reliability, maximize Mean Productive Time Between Failure (MTBF), and Operational Uptime (AOU), and minimize Mean Time To Repair (MTTR).
• Provide accurate and detailed documentation as well as training in basic and advanced maintenance and troubleshooting skills along with established best maintenance and safe practices. Practice gage R&R on critical equipment and consumable related measurements. Monitor and follow through for continuous improvement opportunities across all shifts.
• Review and evaluate tool and spare parts related inputs from Maintenance organizations. Provide timely response, proposed timeline, and sound actions for continuous improvement opportunities.
• Respond to scrapped wafers that occur due to equipment or maintenance related incidences. Review, analyze and investigate equipment related scraps and provide sound root cause analysis and timely effective corrective actions.
• Define and review regularly the minimum (reorder) and maximum spares quantities on critical and long lead items to ensure inventories are at the correct level to support equipment maintenance and repair effort. Work with store and vendor to ensure incoming parts meet form, fit, functional and other quality requirements. Generate parts and consumables specifications, checklist, and drawings as needed.
• Establish, review regularly, and respond to SPC out of control situation for equipment parameters. Additionally, define jointly with process team to set-up and test process and equipment alarm parameters at the tool. Monitor tool alarm logs regularly and follow through for proactive actions and continuous improvement opportunities. Drive tool matching and yield improvement through design and engineering improvements.
• Keep track of the down tool situation and provide verbal and written instructions to support teams upon request. Respond to down tool escalation calls upon request by Production and Maintenance organizations. Take an active and leading role in bringing the down tool up efficiently and effectively. Observe for learning and improvement opportunities across all functions. Follow through with the improvement actions.
• Keep track and learn the applicable new equipment and process technologies for potential wafer fab applications and implementations.

Qualifications

REQUIRED

• The Equipment Engineer candidate is a highly motivated individual who has at least 5 years’ experience with a B.S. or at least 3 years’ experience with an M.S. degree 1 Year with PhD and a successful record of accomplishment in equipment design and sustaining experience.
• Degrees must be in Chemical, Electrical, Electronics, Mechanical Engineering.
• The candidate must demonstrate technical capability and positive results in CMP process equipment.
• The applicant must be a strong problem solver, organized and quality driven.
• Required experiences include in-depth understanding and practice of equipment design and testing (or sustaining), operations, documentation, maintenance, as well as good understanding of wafer level processes and cleanroom requirements.
• Applicant with Ebara, Strasbaugh, AMAT Mirra CMP tools, Disco Grind & Polisher, DNS cleaner, Hyprez Lapping experience are for CMP Equipment Engineer.
• The position requires excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong project management and people skills, and must be able to act as an active team leader or cross-functional team member to provide the best results to the teams and company.

SKILLS

• They must know how to effectively work with technicians and be able to clearly transfer technical knowledge and instructions in an accessible manner. PC skills include JMP, MS Excel, Project, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook. CAD and geometric tolerance experience are highly desired.