Equipment Engineer

SILICON BOX; Singapore; On-site; SGD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

SILICON BOX is seeking an Equipment Engineer to provide technical leadership for the next generation of Fanout packaging equipment. You will optimize equipment capability, quality, and utilization through CIP to meet company goals.

The role involves planning startup activities, establishing PM programs, coordinating with vendors, and leading equipment improvement projects to enhance yield, reduce costs, and ensure safe operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in Electrical/ Electronics/ Mechanical/ Mechatronics/ Microelectronics Engineering or equivalent.
• Diploma with minimum 8 years of experience in a similar role.

Responsibilities

• Understand process equipment principles and impact of critical parameters.
• Plan and start up new equipment for production support from facilities hookup to acceptance.
• Establish preventive maintenance plans and optimize for quality, cost and productivity.
• Liaise with vendors to resolve equipment issues and improve performance.
• Identify and mitigate safety and product risks with safe work procedures.
• Coordinate with process and manufacturing engineers for efficient work
• Lead equipment improvement projects to increase efficiency and reduce costs.
• Forecast budgets for equipment expenditures and track expenses
• Set targets to minimize scrap and optimize equipment utilization
• Provide training to AEs and TAs on troubleshooting and equipment knowledge
• Follow up on SPSR, MRB, 8D, TECN, ECN ISO/QS/TQM docs for issue closure
• Self-audit and update specs to meet Quality Standards
• Set expectations and conduct performance appraisals for Technicians/AE
• Provide long-term solutions to address daily issues and hardware chronicle issues
• Knowledge of SPC, DOE, FDC, ECMS for equipment optimization
• Coach engineers in hardware troubleshooting
• Maintain stock levels of essential spare parts and liaise with vendors to avoid over/under-stock
• Experience with high precision die-bonder flip chip bonder like Datacon Chameo/Nucleus

Skills

Leadership

Teamwork

Problem-solving

Analytical thinking

Mechanical aptitude

Education

Bachelor Degree or Diploma

Job description

The Equipment Engineer will provide technical leadership to startup of next generation of Fanout packaging equipment, optimize equipment capability, quality, and utilization through CIP to meet company's goals.

Responsibilities

• Have an in-depth understanding of how process equipment working principle and how critical parameters will impact process and to work together with process counterpart to resolve complex integration issues.
• Manage and plan new equipment start-up to support production, from facilities hookup, vendor startup, to acceptance of equipment for production
• Establish Preventive Maintenance (PM) plans for all equipment and optimize PM for quality, cost, and productivity.
• Liaise with vendors to resolve equipment issues and improve equipment performance of equipment to enhance quality, yield, cost reduction and productivity.
• Identify and assess any safety and product risks, recommends risk eliminations, and control risk through mitigations and safe work procedures.
• Initiate meeting with both process and manufacturing Engineers to ensure work is carried out efficiently to meet group objectives
• Lead and implement equipment improvement projects to improve equipment efficiency, cost reduction and reliability of equipment
• Forecast financial budgets for equipment expenditures. Setup tracking system to monitor expenditures
• Set targets, goals, and projects for the section to minimize scrap, equipment cost, optimize equipment capability and utilization to meet operational needs
• Provide feedback / training to AEs and TAs on their troubleshooting skills, equipment knowledge, decision making, risks assessment
• Familiar and follow up on SPSR, MRB, 8D, TECN, ECN ISO9001/QS9000/TQM documentation for closure of issues / setup system.
• Self-audit and update specifications to meet company Quality Standard requirements
• Set expectation and carry out performance appraisal for Technician or AE as instructed by Manager. Help the AE or Engineer on their career path development
• Provide long term solution to address daily issues. Resolve department hardware chronicle issues.
• Possess knowledge on SPC, DOE, FDC, ECMS and all the statistical analysis tools to help optimizing equipment robustness.
• Able to coach Engineers in performing hardware trouble shooting.
• Establish stock levels of essential spare parts and consumables to support equipment maintenance based on forecasted manufacturing volume. Liaise with vendors to minimize / eliminate over-stock or under-stock
• Experience working with high precision die-bonder flip chip bonder like Datacon Chameo/ Nucleus

Requirements

• Bachelor Degree in Electrical / Electronics / Mechanical / Mechatronics / Microelectronics Engineering
• Diploma candidates with min 8 years of work experience in similar role
• At least 5 years of relevant experience in equipment engineering for senior level, preferably in a semicon/LCD industry
• Hands-on experience in equipment maintenance or troubleshooting.
• Self-driven leader and strong team player with keen technical ability, systematic approach, detailed-oriented, excellent problem-solving with strong analytical skills.
• Proven ability to identify, assess and solve problems
• Ability to work under pressure & in a Dynamic Environment
• Wafer-level Fanout /WLCSP packaging experience