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.

Requirements: • 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, SemiTool. •An HNC/HND or Degree in an engineering discipline (or equivalent) and/or 10 years of directly related experience.

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