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, qualification, upgrades, and continuous-improvement projects.
• Strong knowledge of structured problem-solving and root-cause-analysis methods.
• Experience managing projects, priorities, resources, schedules, and budgets.
• Demonstrated ability to coach technical employees, assess performance, resolve conflicts, and build effective teams.
• Strong written, verbal, interpersonal, and cross-functional communication skills.

Preferred Requirements/Qualifications:

• Experience with vacuum systems, robotics, motion control, PLCs, sensors, machine vision, industrial networks, or automated material-handling systems.
• Knowledge of statistical process control, fault detection, equipment monitoring, reliability-centered maintenance, Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, or Kaizen.
• Experience with equipment installation, site acceptance testing, qualification, technology transfer, and capital-project execution.
• Experience managing equipment suppliers, contractors, and service providers.

U.S. Export Controls Requirements: This job requires access to technology, materials, software or hardware that is controlled by the export laws of the United States. Candidates are required to provide proof of either US citizenship, Permanent US residency or classification as a protected individual as defined in 8 USC 1324b (a) (3).

Travel Time:

0% - 25%

Physical Attributes:

Hearing, Seeing, Supervises Others, Talking, Works Alone, Works Around Others

Physical Requirements:

70% sitting, 15% standing, 15% walking

Pay Range:

We offer a total compensation package that ranks among the best in the industry. It consists of competitive base pay, restricted stock units, and quarterly bonus payments. In addition to these components, our package includes health benefits that begin day one, retirement savings plans, and an industry leading ESPP program with a 2 year look back feature. Find more information about all our benefits at the link below:

Benefits of working at Microchip

The annual base salary range for this position, which could be performed in the US, is $91,000-$247,000.*

Microchip Technology Inc is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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