Equipment Engineer

4 weeks ago


Fremont, California, United States Western Digital Full time
Job Description

Western Digital is seeking a highly skilled Equipment Engineer to join our team. As an Equipment Engineer, you will be responsible for the specification, project management, design review, and qualification testing of new tools dedicated to new products.

You will work closely with Process Engineering, Maintenance, vendors, and other teams to define, improve, and monitor equipment reliability, throughput, and process capability. Your responsibilities will include defining, deploying, monitoring, and improving preventive maintenance specifications, EDCSPC on tool parameters, bill of material, and spare parts requirements.

You will also be responsible for reviewing, analyzing, and investigating equipment-related scraps and providing root cause analysis and effective corrective actions. Additionally, you will be the in-house technical equipment expert, providing hands-on technical support to bring tools up efficiently and effectively upon down-tool escalations.

Key Responsibilities
  • Take ownership of new equipment specification, technical negotiation with vendors, design and documentation review, tool installation, and qualification testing and documentation.
  • 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.
  • Monitor and follow through for continuous improvement opportunities across all shifts.
  • Review and evaluate tool and spare parts-related inputs from Sustaining Equipment Engineering and Maintenance organizations.
  • Respond to scrapped wafers that occur due to equipment or maintenance-related incidences.
  • 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.
  • Establish, review regularly, and respond to SPC out of control situation for equipment parameters.
  • Keep track of the down tool situation and provide verbal and written instructions to support teams upon request.
Qualifications

At least 8 years' experience with a B.S. or at least 6 years' experience with an M.S. degree years and a successful track record in equipment design and sustaining experience.

Degrees must be in electrical, mechanical, or related Engineering or physical science.

The candidate must demonstrate technical capability and positive results in Thin Film process equipment, and/or Wet processing equipment. Experience Chemical Mechanical Polishing (CMP) is highly desirable.

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.

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.

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.



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