Equipment Engineer II

Siltronic•Portland, OR

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Siltronic is a global leader in manufacturing highly specialized hyper pure silicon wafers, serving the semiconductor industry worldwide. We are seeking an Equipment Engineer II to analyze equipment performance metrics and maintenance data to drive continuous improvements in overall equipment effectiveness (OEE). This role involves diagnosing complex engineering problems, delivering end-to-end solutions to enhance reliability, uptime, yield, capability, and operating cost, including developing business cases and managing funded projects. The engineer will lead and oversee vendors, consultants, and contractors, and develop, review, and enforce Energy Control Procedures to ensure safe operations and regulatory compliance.

Requirements

Requires a B.S. degree in Engineering or equivalent experience.
More than two years of related industry experience.
Advanced, hands-on knowledge in the individual’s chosen engineering discipline.
Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
Ability to facilitate and document work sessions and meetings.
Ability to communicate clearly across a variety of disciplines, groups, and organizational levels.
Capability of balancing both technical and administrative responsibilities.
Ability to consider short- and long-term impacts of project implementation.
Ability to sit / stand / walk as required for various periods of time.
Ability to use office equipment, phones, laptop effectively for various amounts of time throughout the day.
Ability to lift up to 50 pounds.

Nice To Haves

Experience with chemical supply and wet-cleaning systems is preferred.

Responsibilities

Develop a complete understanding of equipment and support systems in assigned areas.
Act as a trainer and certifier for maintenance technicians.
Provide daily support to operations, monitoring equipment status and priority.
Monitor the direction and effectiveness of repairs and provide support as necessary to maintenance.
Have a thorough knowledge of hazards and safety concerns for assigned areas.
Identify and resolve equipment code, health and safety issues.
Develop and review energy control procedures.
Identify and implement improvements to equipment, maintenance programs and procedures.
Maintain a Pareto of failure causes by frequency, cost, and downtime.
Monitor trends in technical availability, TTRmax, MTTR and MTBF.
Perform failure analysis of equipment and components.
Develop and implement predictive maintenance methods.
Make improvements to reduce unscheduled downtime and increase reliability of equipment.
Develop and review preventative and planned maintenance requirements.
Establish initial preventative maintenance tasks and schedules.
Review PM’s regularly for effectiveness.
Identify and schedule planned maintenance activities.
Develop procedures where necessary.
Review and optimize spare parts requirements.
Identify and implement cost reductions.
Track and trend the technical spending for assigned equipment.
Identify and implement ways to reduce repair costs, qualify alternative spare parts and to reduce consumption of utilities and consumables.
Work with process technology to identify and resolve equipment related yield issues.
Develop methods to assign causes to yield excursions.
Identify key equipment parameters which cause variation and establish SPC for these.
Analyze engineering problems in detail and provide complete design solutions.
Prepare project proposals and request for funding.
Organize, direct and control the efforts of an engineering project team.
Prepare project specifications and scope of work by vendors, consultants, and contractors.
Review and select vendors, consultants, and contractors.
Monitor and control the execution of projects for cost schedule and performance.
Provide regular project reports and forecasts.
Provide complete documentation, P.M. schedules and spare parts lists in connection with each project.
Participate in special projects, cooperate with other team members and perform other duties as assigned.