Manufacturing Operations Engineer (Nights)

Samsung • Taylor, TX

2d • Onsite

About The Position

At Samsung Austin Semiconductor, the Manufacturing Operations Engineer is responsible for documenting, trending, and sustaining the health of the In/Out Room equipment fleet, including automated packaging equipment and associated accessories such as heaters and N2 pump systems. The role identifies data sets that indicate equipment condition, organizes trends into real-time dashboards, and creates processes and expectations for responding to fleet trends. The engineer serves as a contact when equipment goes down, recovers basic errors, replaces parts, and works with vendors on escalations.

The position works the night shift on a compressed work week, with 12-hour shifts three or four days per week. All positions at Samsung Austin Semiconductor are full-time and onsite. The base salary range is $95,000–$120,000, with a comprehensive benefits package and potential participation in incentive compensation programs. Employment may be contingent on meeting U.S. export-control requirements.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical, Industrial, or Process Engineering.
• At least 3 years of hands-on experience with sub-fab systems in the semiconductor industry.
• Experience in other manufacturing environments with large quantities of equipment.
• Proficiency in data and statistical analytics.
• Experience with mechanical equipment repair.
• Knowledge of common industrial sensors, including pressure, temperature, and flow sensors.
• Proficiency with Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) concepts and their industrial implementation.

Responsibilities

• Understand the core function, design concepts, common failure modes, and measurable parameters of each equipment type.
• Understand maintenance procedures and schedules, and establish maintenance expectations and constraints for failure conditions.
• Compile equipment parameter data sets and rank equipment health based on values.
• Evaluate parameter values using statistical process control (SPC) methodologies and define specification limits.
• Build and modify dashboards to visualize equipment performance and health.
• Automate escalations for equipment issues based on specification limits.
• Create and enforce procedures for addressing fleet health issues.
• Analyze equipment performance and identify improvement opportunities.
• Author preventive maintenance schedules based on usage hours, manufacturer recommendations, and failure mode analyses.
• Perform root cause investigations into abnormal equipment failures.
• Organize and lead projects with clearly defined benefits and return on investment.
• Collaborate with equipment engineer peers to drive improvements in their modules.
• Manage competing priorities within modules and advance important initiatives.
• Produce and maintain operating manuals, standard operating procedures, and fleet records.
• Submit monthly KPI dashboards, including pump uptime and mean time between failure.
• Record incident reports for audit purposes.
• Respond to equipment downtime by recovering basic errors, replacing parts, and coordinating vendor escalations.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Life insurance.
• 401(k) matching with immediate vesting.
• Onsite cafés and workout facilities.
• Paid maternity and paternity leave.
• Paid time off (PTO), two personal holidays, and ten regular holidays.
• Wellness incentives.
• Potential MBO bonuses for eligible full-time employees, based on company, division, and individual performance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level