Senior Wafer Fab Equipment Engineer Shift Leader

Lumentum Operations LLC; Towcester; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Lumentum is seeking a Shift Engineer for the Wafer Fab Equipment team at Caswell, Northampton, UK. You will provide production equipment support, fault finding, and drive uptime and OEE improvements in a cleanroom environment.

The role requires a background in semiconductor equipment maintenance, strong documentation skills, and ability to work with external vendors. Flexible hours and potential shift work are part of the role; English communication and site eligibility in the UK are essential.

Qualifications

• An HNC/HND or Degree in an engineering discipline (or equivalent) and/or 10 years of directly related experience.

Responsibilities

• Repair and preventative maintenance (PMs) of specialist semiconductor processing equipment, including any preparation work and routine cleans.
• Oversee chemical, gases and spare parts control, chemical fills and waste management.
• Instruct and mentor equipment technicians and junior equipment engineers in various aspects of equipment engineering.
• Liaison with equipment and spares suppliers and specialist service providers (including the supervision of external contractors and field service engineers).
• Develop and deliver preventative maintenance strategies to maximise equipment utilisation, OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) and up-time.
• Ensure that that team members are motivated towards achieving objectives of the group, and ensuring objectives are clearly communicated to them where necessary.
• Ensure cross training of Equipment Technicians and Engineers in order to meet engineering and manufacturing requirements.
• Responsible for driving Total Productive Maintenance practices within the Engineering group.
• Define, allocate and to monitor the progress of key improvement projects in an 8-step format and to ensure that these are completed in a timely manner.
• Responsible for producing monthly reports detailing equipment performance, status of key improvement projects and metrics which will be circulated to the Engineering Management team.
• Responsible for representing the group at production, planning and scrap meetings.
• Work with supply chain to add the Wafer Fab Equipment spare parts inventory into stores and help manage stock levels and critical spares.
• Adhere to all site safety and environmental procedures.
• Support of site emergency response function.
• Provide shift cover as required.

Skills

5+ years semiconductor experience

Procedures documentation

Time management

Microsoft Office

Teamwork

ASML experience

Equipment maintenance

Education

Engineering degree or HNC/HND

10 years related experience

Tools

PROMIS MES

Job description

Lumentum is seeking a Shift Engineer for the Wafer Fab Equipment team at Caswell, Northampton, UK. You will provide production equipment support, fault finding, and drive uptime and OEE improvements in a cleanroom environment.

The role requires a background in semiconductor equipment maintenance, strong documentation skills, and ability to work with external vendors. Flexible hours and potential shift work are part of the role; English communication and site eligibility in the UK are essential.