About the role
AI summarisedThe Senior Equipment Engineer for NiPd APS Eless process at STMicroelectronics is responsible for owning equipment performance, driving reliability and yield improvements, managing equipment lifecycle from startup to production acceptance, and providing technical leadership to maintenance teams. This role focuses on optimizing maintenance costs, establishing preventive and corrective maintenance procedures, analyzing equipment downtime, and supporting production targets through close collaboration with engineering and manufacturing teams. The position requires deep expertise in NiPd plating processes on APS tools, strong analytical and interpersonal skills, and the ability to work independently in a semiconductor fab environment.
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Key Responsibilities
- Follow up on the role of Equipment owner and implement equipment improvement projects to achieve the best possible maintenance cost per wafer, equipment reliability, wafer fab yield and throughput parameters
- Manage new equipment start up, liaise with vendors, to acceptance of equipment for production
- Establish CM procedures and troubleshooting guides to allow more efficient troubleshooting
- Establish PM procedures to achieve best possible Preventive Maintenance efficiency without compromising quality
- Establish critical equipment spares, consumables stock levels to support equipment recovery time
- Translates the requirements of Production and Engineering needs into maintenance tasks and work closely with them to achieve the overall committed targets in all aspects of manufacturing parameters
- Participate in cost reduction projects to maintain cost efficiency
- Generate regular Equipment downtime pareto reports and analyzing for any chronic/repeated issues
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering: Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or Mechatronics
- More than 10 years' experience in NiPd plating process done on APS (German supplier) Tools
- Bath Analysis supported by Nova Ankolyzer
- Deep knowledge of these tool type
- Must be able to work independently with minimum support
- Good knowledge in reading and analyzing electrical schematic and block diagrams
- Strong analytical & problem solving skills are required
- Has excellent interpersonal skills to teamwork within & with other departments
- Familiar with Microsoft office applications
- Good knowledge in statistical tools, problem solving tools, FMEA and 8D
- Knowledge in PLC programming will be an added advantage
- Usage of AI will be an added advantage