Engineer- Manufacturing I USA

First Solar•Perrysburg, OH

4d•Onsite

About The Position

First Solar reserves the right to offer you a role most applicable to your experience and skillset. This role involves installing and qualifying new process equipment, troubleshooting day-to-day manufacturing issues on the production line in a timely manner, including tool down issues, yield, and quality issues, and identifying actions to prevent repeat issues. The position also requires identifying and/or implementing system improvements that contribute to the achievement of throughput, yield, and product performance goals.

Requirements

Associate’s Degree in an engineering or similar technical discipline combined with 3 or more years of First Solar technical experience, OR 6 or more years of technical work experience in a Manufacturing setting.
Bachelor’s Degree, Master’s Degree, or Ph.D. in an engineering or similar technical discipline with no experience required.
Technical work experience in combination with a degree is preferred.
3 or more years’ experience as a First Solar Maintenance Technician III, MET III, EPT III or Equipment Coordinator III OR Journeyman certification in a relevant technical discipline such as Machinist or Electrician combined with 5 or more years industry experience at Journeyman level OR 10 or more years’ experience as a highly skilled technician/specialist in a relevant discipline.
Demonstrate skills and experience in peer training/mentorship and basic data analysis
Understands and can apply Statistical Data Analysis
Good problem solving skills
Understands metrology and measurement best practices
Good oral and written communications skills.
Ability to write manufacturing documentation
Understands and can apply DOE
Understands and can apply Statistical Process Control (SPC)
Understands and can apply structured problem solving (such as DMAIC)
Ability to work with minimal supervision.
General Electrical / Electronics
General Mechanical
Will sit, stand or walk short distances for up to 12 hours per day
Will climb stairs on an occasional basis
Will exert up to 50 pounds of force to lift, push or pull on a seldom basis
Will lift, push or pull up to 27 pounds on a frequent basis
Will lift up to 51 pounds on an occasional basis, according to work instructions.
Will lift up to 37 pounds on a frequent basis
Will push or pull up to 27 pounds of force on an occasional basis.
Will push or pull up to 10 pounds of force on a frequent basis.
Required to use hands to grasp, lift, handle, carry or feel objects repetitively on a frequent basis
20/40 vision in each eye, with or without correction, is required
Must be able to comply with all safety standards and procedures
May reach above shoulder heights and below the waist on a frequent basis
May stoop, kneel, or bend, on an occasional basis
Ability to wear personal protective equipment is required (including but not limited to; steel toed shoes, gloves, safety glasses, hearing protection, protective jacket or apron and arm guards)
All associates working on the production floor may be required to wear a respirator at any given time and thus, the ability to wear a respirator is a condition of employment and continued employment (requires little or no facial hair)

Nice To Haves

Industry-recognized certification strongly preferred.
Prior experience in the areas of thin-film deposition processes (Magnetron Sputtering, CVD, evaporation) OR thermal processing in semiconductor or glass industry (continuous or batch ovens) is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

Responsible for solving day-to-day production, equipment, and process problems
Install and Qualify new equipment
Maintain Gauges
Design and execute planned process experiments, collect and analyze data and report experimental results.
Perform data collection relating to daily equipment performance and associated product performance.
Interface with internal associates and supplier representatives as required to complete assigned projects
Maintain effective communication with production associates and manufacturing engineers
Develop and provide training to engineering technicians, and production associates
Identify and implement yield and product performance improvements
Develop and maintain drawings, process specifications, develop and enforce standard operating procedures
Develop and maintain process control plans
Adhere to all safety procedures and good housekeeping standards
Domestic and International travel as required