Process Engineer (OSAT)

HR Duo, Ltd.; Picket Piece; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Custom Interconnect Ltd. is seeking an experienced engineer to support production, perform preventative maintenance, and contribute to process design/engineering.

The role covers design reviews, NPI support, and collaboration with Senior Engineers to improve throughput and quality in a high-technology electronics environment in Andover, Hampshire. Candidates should have 1 year of engineering/manufacturing experience with electronics or semiconductor exposure; ideally with 2 years.

Qualifications

• Minimum Education: An HNC or HND in a relevant engineering or scientific discipline.
• Preferable Education: A degree qualification; BEng/MEng in engineering or scientific disciplines e.g. electronics, physics, mechanical engineering.
• Minimum Experience: 1 year working in an engineering and/or manufacturing facility.
• Preferable Experience: 2 years working with an electronics, microelectronics or semiconductor manufacturing facility.

Responsibilities

• Production Support: support/advise on clean room and production team supervision, equipment/technical matters, training and development; train and evaluate Production-led training of operators, supervisors and technicians; troubleshoot problems with equipment and/or assembly/product quality as identified by Production; write equipment operational SOPs for production reference and training; write product assembly instructions and publish supporting documents for Production Team reference.
• Preventative Maintenance: define and document low level Daily and Weekly and higher level Monthly Quarterly maintenance tasks as part of standard operational procedures; define and monitor schedules for DWMQ maintenance tasks to ensure equipment maintenance schedules are met; support the Maintenance Team to ensure equipment annual service requirements are met; support the Maintenance Team in fault-find, repair and support of service engineers in event of equipment breakdown; use occurrences of equipment breakdown or process drift to identify opportunities for improvement; support Senior and Lead Engineers, senior management and IT teams to identify and maintain stocks of critical spares, machine consumables, and to ensure programs or other process-critical software is backed-up to a CIL server location, or other suitable and safe storage media, for ease of retrieval as and when required.

Skills

Production Support

Maintenance

Process Design

Process Engineering

Quality Support

R&D

Education

HNC/HND in engineering or science

BEng/MEng in engineering

Job description

Company Information and Introduction

At Custom Interconnect we plan to succeed and never fail! Our values dictate that we have an unrivalled passion for providing the best Electronics Manufacturing Support on offer, with an honest and open attitude to business.

Our vision is to be customers’ first choice for the manufacture of mission critical, high technology electronics, adding value globally, and we are dedicated to delivering innovation and service excellence by investing in; design, build and fulfilment of our Customers Products.

Formed in 1987, as a company CIL have grown steadily to become one of the major Electronics Manufacturing Service companies available today. Located in Andover, Hampshire, our manufacturing facilities comprise 80,000sq ft of modern production space to meet our customers’ needs.

Key Responsibilities and Duties

• Production Support: support/advise on clean room and production team supervision, equipment/technical matters, training and development; train and evaluate Production-led training of operators, supervisors and technicians; troubleshoot problems with equipment and/or assembly/product quality as identified by Production; write equipment operational SOPs for production reference and training; write product assembly instructions and publish supporting documents for Production Team reference
• Preventative Maintenance: define and document low level Daily and Weekly and higher level Monthly Quarterly maintenance tasks as part of standard operational procedures; define and monitor schedules for DWMQ maintenance tasks to ensure equipment maintenance schedules are met; support the Maintenance Team to ensure equipment annual service requirements are met; support the Maintenance Team in fault-find, repair and support of service engineers in event of equipment breakdown; use occurrences of equipment breakdown or process drift to identify opportunities for improvement; support Senior and Lead Engineers, senior management and IT teams to identify and maintain stocks of critical spares, machine consumables, and to ensure programs or other process-critical software is backed-up to a CIL server location, or other suitable and safe storage media, for ease of retrieval as and when required.
• Process Design and Set-up: review customer documents and materials to build prototypes for new and existing customers ; s upport the New Product Introduction program with the build of new products; design, set-up and document new product assembly processes and produce NPI batches for customer evaluation; evaluate new product assembly processes for quantity uplift and design/implement improvements for increased throughput; support the Lead and Senior Engineers to highlight potential issues concerning Design for Manufacture.
• Process Engineering: monitor and evaluate production process short-term/long-term performance using Cpk and Ppk statistics; evaluate suitability of measurement systems for CTQ product measurables; design and implement systems to collect manufacturing data from equipment and measurement systems; collect and use production data to monitor product CTQs using control chart statistics and SPC to ensure established processes are operating within agreed/acceptable limits; statistical analysis of production data to identify and implement opportunities for improvement; support the Lead and Senior Engineers and senior management in identifying the need for manufacturing equipment and equipment specifications/configurations; attend in-person first-user on-site training sessions as provided by equipment suppliers.
• Quality Support: provide technical support for internal/external auditors; advise on measurement system calibration requirements and support collection/despatch of items for external calibration; support Quality Team investigations into PRN data, help identify root causes and implement improvements; support with Quality 8D investigations, help identify root causes and implement improvements; support Quality Team with design and continuous evaluation of PFMEA documents.
• Research & Development: Design trials/tests to better understand existing processes and/or assemblies and identify improvements; identify training needs and design training/development plans to continuously improve team capabilities/knowledge; carry out research projects on subject areas of personal/team interest and report findings to improve team/company knowledge; attend exhibitions and shows when required to maintain contacts with suppliers and ensure an up‑to‑date knowledge of the “state‑of‑the‑art” in aspects of semiconductor packaging process; use knowledge from process and equipment development projects, monitoring of established production processes to support the Lead Engineer and drive improvements in semiconductor process.

Key Skills and Competencies

Minimum Education: An HNC or HND in a relevant engineering or scientific discipline.

Preferable Education: A degree qualification; BEng/MEng in engineering or scientific disciplines e.g. electronics, physics, mechanical engineering.

Minimum Experience: 1 year working in an engineering and/or manufacturing facility.

Preferable Experience: 2 years working with an electronics, microelectronics or semiconductor manufacturing facility.

Additional Information

Number of positions: 1

Contact:

Name: Olivia McGonigal

Phone: [phone]

You have the right to lodge a complaint with us via Custom Interconnect Ltd as well as the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) if you believe we have not complied with the requirements of the UK GDPR or Data Protection Act 2018 in relation to your personal data. If you have any concerns about the way your personal data has been processed, please let us know in the first instance. We will acknowledge your complaint within 30 days, investigate any issues you have raised while keeping you informed of progress, and advise you of the outcome without undue delay.