Manager-Equipment Engineering

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Job Description:

We are seeking an experienced equipment manager to lead a combined team of equipment engineers and equipment technicians supporting Microchip’s wafer fabrication operations in Lawrence, Massachusetts. As Equipment Engineering Manager, you will oversee the performance, reliability, maintenance, and continuous improvement of critical fab equipment while developing a skilled, collaborative technical organization. 

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of 5-7 equipment engineers and equipment technicians.
• Establish team priorities, staffing plans, performance expectations, and development goals aligned with fab objectives.
• Ensure effective coordination between equipment engineering, equipment technicians, manufacturing, process engineering, maintenance and facilities.
• Assign and prioritize daily engineering and technical support activities based on production needs, equipment performance, safety, and business priorities.
• Direct equipment sustaining activities, including troubleshooting, preventive and predictive maintenance, equipment recovery, upgrades, and lifecycle management.
• Ensure technicians have the training, tools, procedures, spare parts, and technical support needed to perform work safely and effectively.
• Drive corrective and preventive actions that improve equipment performance and prevent recurrence.
• Initiate or lead teams for equipment installation and equipment upgrades.
• Manage equipment improvement projects, capital requests, supplier relationships, schedules, budgets, and risks.
• Develop and maintain equipment standards, operating procedures, troubleshooting guides, maintenance strategies, and technical documentation.
• Ensure compliance with cleanroom, safety, environmental, quality, ESD, and applicable regulatory requirements.
• Promote a culture of safety, accountability, technical excellence, teamwork, and continuous improvement.
• Provide leadership support for production issues, including occasional off-shift, weekend, or on-call activities as required.
• As needed provide or coordinate support for a sister fab in Lowell Massachusetts.

Requirements/Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, electrical, manufacturing, industrial, mechatronics engineering, or a related technical field.
• 8+ years of experience supporting semiconductor wafer fabrication equipment and processes such as lithography, etch, deposition, implant, diffusion, CMP, clean, metrology, or wet processing.
• 3 or more years of experience managing or leading both engineering and technical personnel.
• Demonstrated experience troubleshooting complex semiconductor manufacturing or automated equipment.
• Experience with equipment reliability, preventive maintenance,