Equipment Engineering Manager - Wet Chemical Process
About The Position
EMD Electronics is seeking an Equipment Engineering Manager to lead engineering for semiconductor delivery equipment. The position may be based in Breinigsville, Pennsylvania; Chandler, Arizona; or Austin, Texas. The manager will help advance the Delivery Systems and Services business by prioritizing safety, quality, reliability, and efficiency, and by executing new equipment offerings for global distribution. The role works across quality, operations, engineering, sales, site services, and sourcing to translate customer needs into valued offerings and develop engineering solutions for the electronics industry. The role leads and develops the equipment engineering team, owns workforce and performance management, and establishes technical standards and disciplined engineering practices. It oversees product lifecycle activities, engineering changes, configuration control, design reviews, release documentation, and new product development and industrialization. The manager partners with manufacturing and business teams to ensure production readiness, support technical proposals and customer configurations, resolve complex equipment issues, improve quality and field performance, and ensure compliance with relevant industry and regional requirements. Travel may be up to 10%.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or another engineering field.
- At least 7 years of experience in an engineering role.
- At least 2 years of leadership or supervisor experience.
Nice To Haves
- At least 10 years of experience in an engineering role.
- 5 years of experience with semiconductor aqueous chemical and slurry delivery.
- Semiconductor, microelectronics, or related experience.
- Proven success applying problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Ability to understand technical product details, troubleshoot, and drive improvements.
- Leadership skills to influence focus on product development.
- Critical attention to detail and investigation skills.
- Ability to balance multiple priorities and meet deadlines.
- Familiarity with SolidWorks, ASPEN, HAZOP, FMEA, MOC, and flow-modeling applications.
- Experience with advanced process control techniques and applications.
- Experience with SEMI standards.
- Knowledge of applying metrology, including densitometers, chemical concentration monitors, conductivity meters, liquid particle counters, liquid detectors, pressure and flow transmitters, mass/liquid flow control, and spectroscopy.
- Experience collaborating with diverse, global teams to meet business and customer needs.
- Enthusiasm for learning and solving complex problems in a thriving organization.
- Demonstrated business acumen, including the ability to develop compelling technical readiness and influence stakeholders across organizational levels and diverse cultural environments.
Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, and develop members of the equipment engineering team.
- Establish competency models, technical standards, development plans, succession coverage, and disciplined engineering practices.
- Own performance management, hiring, workforce planning, resource allocation, and organizational capability building.
- Promote a culture of safety, customer focus, innovation, accountability, inclusion, and continuous improvement.
- Drive technology refresh, value engineering, obsolescence management, component standardization, and margin-improvement initiatives.
- Govern Engineering Change Requests (ECRs), Management of Change (MOC), configuration control, design reviews, and release documentation.
- Balance customer requirements with manufacturability, serviceability, supply continuity, quality, and platform scalability.
- Lead development of new equipment platforms, options, derivatives, and customer-specific configurations using stage-gate governance.
- Partner with Operations and Manufacturing Engineering to ensure production readiness, test readiness, documentation completeness, and controlled product release.
- Support Sales, Product Management, Applications Engineering, and Site Services with technical proposals, design reviews, and solution positioning.
- Lead complex troubleshooting, customer escalations, structured root-cause analysis, CAPA, yield improvement, and recurring-defect elimination.
- Partner with Quality, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Service, and Operations to improve equipment quality, delivery, cost, and field performance.
- Ensure equipment complies with applicable SEMI, CE, UL, NFPA, IEC, and regional regulatory requirements.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Paid time off (PTO)
- Retirement contributions
- Other perquisites
- Position may be eligible for sales or performance-based bonuses
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
