Description:
The Shift Equipment Engineer is responsible for monitoring, sustaining, and improving the equipment in their assigned area, while working in partnership with Shift Ops team members, area engineers and tool vendors. Shift Equipment Engineers monitor tool performance, schedule and perform preventative maintenance on assigned tool sets, and use mechanical, electronic and PC/software skills to troubleshoot and repair equipment issues.
Safety & Quality
- Completes all required safety training and conducts all work in accordance with safety policies and regulations
- Follows-up on safety and quality related issues immediately and works towards resolution with stakeholders
- Performs and facilitates audits and submits good catches on safety issues
- Proactively reduces incidents of personal injuries, safety hazards or environmental releases
- Operates and maintains tools according to documentation and guidelines to ensure safety and quality expectations are met
- Creates and modifies equipment procedures via approved TD change management methods
- Reviews and documents long term down events to ensure root cause, follow-up documentation, and communication across the process area and 1st shift team.
- Reviews and identifies hardware related failures and creates and executes plans to fix root-cause
Communication & Collaboration
- Collaborates with supervisor and areas leaders to create personal performance and development goals
- Partners with 1st Shift Engineers and Shift Engineers/Technicians to execute to daily priorities
- Proactively communicates issues that could cause yield loss, excursions, defects, tool restrictions, or output loss
- Ensures pass down is updated and accurately reflects the work performed and tool current statuses
- Communicates current/upcoming tools issues and mitigation plans
Technical/Data Analysis
- Provides troubleshooting support for complex problems and address root causes
- Provides effective and timely guidance to resolve equipment issues and is highly engaged in key problem resolution
- Supports a culture of TPM including TPM metrics, WS health reports, CIP items, MTAGs, MOP documents and restoration guides
- Escalates inventory issues to the 1st shift team including ATIR, dead inventory, kitting BOMs, spare, etc.
- Assists with equipment installs and engineering tests
- Drives to increase tool uptime through systematic problem solving and troubleshooting
- Assists 1st shift engineering with long-term down equipment
- Identifies and reduces tool-generated defects to improve quality
- Identifies and resolves chronic equipment alarm issues
- Improves tool availability by finding solutions to ongoing problems
- Owns shift equipment performance metrics
- Partners with stakeholders to develop hardware and software improvements
- Identifies the golden tool and optimizes the rest of the fleet to match
- Creates reports summarizing equipment availability, variability, and cost reduction projects
Project Management/Planning
- Partners with equipment owners to develop, prioritize, and manage projects
- Manages projects to ensure deliverables are completed within the required scope, schedule and budget
- Tracks actions and provides escalation path or resources to ensure actions will be completed on time
- Supports department business processes for new tool installations, modifications and removals