Shift Equipment Technician

Vishay Israel; Newport; On-site; GBP 19,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Vishay Israel is seeking a Shift Equipment Technician to join our manufacturing team in the United Kingdom. The role focuses on maintenance, fault diagnosis, and problem-solving during shift operations. You will execute basic PMs, perform first-line fault recovery, and support equipment-related improvement projects.

Working within a clean room environment, you will interact with process and equipment engineers to resolve online issues and help meet equipment performance metrics across shifts.

Qualifications

• Be educated to or working towards - BTEC/HNC Engineering or equivalent level.
• Be able to read, analyse and interpret technical procedures, write basic observation reports using a set format.
• Be familiar with all modern manufacturing concepts such as JIT, KANBAN, Zero Defects, SPC, TQM and TPM.
• Be capable of managing and prioritizing their workload.
• Clean room environmental knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Sustain PM's and troubleshoot on equipment during shift hours.
• Carry out first level of fault recovery and tool health improvement activities
• Support equipment experiment/improvement actions and projects.
• Support manufacturing shift by achieving all required equipment metrics
• Follow documented procedures for basic equipment checks, PM's and OCAPs
• Interface with Engineers (equipment and process) and manufacturing online issues.

Skills

Procedures reading

Workload prioritization

Clean room knowledge

Kanban

JIT

SPC

TQM

TPM

Education

BTEC/HNC Engineering

Job description

About the role

We are currently looking for Shift Equipment Technicians. As part of the team, you will contribute and support the maintenance and troubleshooting of equipment issues.

What you will do:

• Sustain PM's and troubleshoot on equipment during shift hours.
• Carry out first level of fault recovery and tool health improvement activities
• Support equipment experiment/improvement actions and projects.
• Support manufacturing shift by achieving all required equipment metrics
• Follow documented procedures for basic equipment checks, PM's and OCAPs
• Interface with Engineers (equipment and process) and manufacturing online issues.

Skills you will need:

• Be educated to or working towards - BTEC/HNC Engineering or equivalent level
• Be able to read, analyse and interpret technical procedures, write basic observation reports using a set format
• Be familiar with all modern manufacturing concepts such as JIT, KANBAN, Zero Defects, SPC, TQM and TPM
• Be capable of managing and prioritizing their workload.
• Clean room environmental knowledge.

The following shift patterns are available:

• FED (Front End Days) 7am-7pm (Week 1: Saturday: Sunday : Monday : Tuesday; Week 2: Sunday : Monday : Tuesday)
• FEN (Front End Nights) 7pm-7am (Week 1: Saturday: Sunday : Monday : Tuesday; Week 2: Sunday : Monday : Tuesday)
• BED (Back End Days) 7am-7pm (Week 1: Wednesday: Thursday: Friday;Week 2: Wednesday: Thursday: Friday: Saturday)
• BEN (Back End Nights) 7pm-7am (Week 1: Wednesday: Thursday: Friday;Week 2: Wednesday: Thursday: Friday: Saturday)