Equipment Engineering Manager - Caswell, United Kingdom - Lumentum

Description

Lumentum (NASDAQ: LITE) is a market-leading manufacturer of innovative optical and photonic products enabling optical networking and commercial laser customers worldwide. Lumentum's optical components and subsystems are part of virtually every type of telecom, enterprise, and data center network. Lumentum's commercial lasers enable advanced manufacturing techniques and diverse applications including next-generation 3D sensing capabilities. Lumentum is headquartered in Milpitas, California with R&D, manufacturing, and sales offices worldwide.

Summary

To provide leadership to the Wafer Fab Equipment Engineering group within the Caswell chip manufacturing facility. To work closely with the Manufacturing and Process Engineering functions to improve yields and efficiency by ensuring capable and suitable equipment engineering support is available as required. Responsible for continuous improvement of equipment performance with particular emphasis on key production bottlenecks.

Tasks

• Direct, develop and lead the Wafer Fab Equipment Engineering function supporting 24x7 operations.
• Planning and execution of Planned Maintenance schedules required to support equipment performance needs.
• Support continuous improvement in cost savings, quality and resource utilization, e.g. improve equipment availability, improve mean time to failure, reduce duration of maintenance events, ensure fitness for production use after maintenance interventions, etc.
• Yield improvement actions as they relate to Wafer Fab Equipment Engineering activities.
• Establish and maintain critical spares holdings.
• Where relevant, manage raw materials (mainly process gases) and critical spares infeed and liaise with supply chain to ensure continuity of supply.
• Reporting on progress and performance against targets and objectives.
• Where appropriate, provide expert technical support for engineering initiatives.
• Support the wider team in identifying and driving delivery of new tooling programmes for continued manufacturing capability and capacity.
• Participate in strategy planning for annual and 3yr planning cycles.
• Ensure all chip manufacturing engineering projects, initiatives, and processes are in conformance with Lumentum's established policies and objectives.

Requirements

Qualifications

• Minimum 2nd Class Bachelor's Degree in Semiconductor Engineering or equivalent and relevant experience within an individual contributor role.
• Demonstrable success in a supervisory role within a semiconductor manufacturing environment.

Skills

Essential:

• Experienced equipment engineering background with strong emphasis on process and team development.
• Strong analytical skills and problem-solving abilities, especially with regard to semiconductor manufacturing equipment.
• Knowledge of manufacturing execution systems (MES) such as PROMIS and MES concepts such as task scheduling, data collection and SPC.
• Knowledge of working within a high-technology manufacturing or production environment.
• Knowledge of working within a cleanroom or laboratory environment.
• Competent PC user (including the use of Microsoft Office).

Desirable:

• Wide ranging knowledge of semiconductor fabrication techniques especially with regard to the fabrication of III-V based devices.
• Knowledge of photonic integrated circuit manufacture would be an advantage.

Benefits

Salary plus bonus plus shares (RSU's)

MS teams Interview followed by On-site interview