Equipment Engineer

Lumentum Operations LLC; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 88,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Lumentum is seeking an Equipment Engineer for the San Jose fab to own one or more tool sets and drive reliability, uptime, and cost reduction in a 24/7 clean room. You will design maintenance programs, write procedures, and analyze performance metrics to improve MTBF, MTTR, and yield across equipment lines.

Join a team focused on environmental health and safety, tool availability, and continuous improvement, providing clear work instructions and BOM management for assigned equipment sets in a

Qualifications

• Experience in equipment maintenance in a 24/7 clean room manufacturing environment.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement maintenance programs to improve tool availability and reduce cost of ownership.
• Analyze equipment performance metrics (MTBF, uptime, MTTR) to identify improvement areas.
• Write PM procedures, checklists, troubleshooting guides, and work instructions.
• Evaluate and recommend the selection of new process equipment.
• Plan, manage and execute equipment installations or upgrades to Fab or manufacturing equipment.
• Continuous improvement of reliability, availability, yield and quality as well as cost and scrap reduction support.
• Assist equipment maintenance technicians in troubleshooting down tools.
• Establish and maintain spare part BOMs for assigned equipment.

Skills

Equipment maintenance

Organizational skills

Communication skills

Electronics basics

Schematics reading

Electromechanical

Vacuum systems

Pneumatics

Root cause analysis

MS Office

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Project

Job description

## Equipment EngineerApply: USA - CA - San Jose (Rose): Full time: Posted Today: 20261444**It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing!** We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!As a member of the Equipment Engineering staff, the Wafer Fab Equipment Engineer will have ownership of one or more tool sets within a wafer fab manufacturing operation. Equipment Engineers are responsible for the overall availability and performance of their assigned equipment sets in accordance with SEMI E10.Responsibilities will include:* Design and implement maintenance programs to improve tool availability and reduce cost of ownership;* Analyze equipment performance metrics (MTBF, uptime, MTTR, etc.) to determine areas for improvement;* Write PM procedures, checklists, troubleshooting guides, and work instructions for your assigned equipment set;* Evaluate and recommend the selection of new process equipment;* Plan, manage and execute all assigned equipment installations or upgrades to the Fab or manufacturing equipment;* Continuous improvement of reliability, availability, yield and quality as well as cost and scrap reduction support;* Assists equipment maintenance technicians in the troubleshooting of critical down tools;* Establish and maintain spare part Bill of Materials (BOMs) for assigned equipment.Requirements:* Solid background working in Equipment Maintenance supporting a 24/7 clean room manufacturing environment* Ability to generate equipment work instructions* Strong organizational, time management, and communication skills* Basic understanding of Environmental, health, and and Safety requirements as related to Equipment Maintenance* Basic understanding Electronics with the ability to read schematics* Basic understanding of Electromechanical, Vacuum, and Pneumatics* Can lead Equipment Maintenance in the troubleshooting to root cause of down equipment* Strong computer skills to include Word, Excel, and Project.**Pay Range:**P40-USA-1 :$87,550.00 - $125,050.00**Disclaimer:**Final base salary for the successful candidate will depend on multiple factors, including but not limited to, job location, where work will be performed, qualifications, work history and relevant experience. With our continual goal of making Lumentum a best place to work for our employees, we strive to offer employees competitive total compensation packages, which may include annual bonus, commission for certain sales roles, equity, and health and welfare benefits.Lumentum is illuminating the networks of tomorrow with advanced photonic technologies that enable AI, data centers, telecom, industrial, and sensing applications. As AI accelerates the global demand for bandwidth and energy efficiency, we deliver the building blocks that keep data moving reliably, efficiently, and at massive scale. Our optical products support AI and compute infrastructure, cloud and DCI environments, metro and long-haul networks, while our lasers drive breakthroughs in precision manufacturing and sensing.For nearly five decades, Lumentum has been at the intersection of light and innovation. What began as a vision with JDS Uniphase to harness the power of photonics has evolved into a global force driving the communication infrastructure of tomorrow. At Lumentum, we’re building more than a business—we’re building a team of passionate innovators whose drive to collaborate, create, and connect the world fuels everything we do. We are part of the AI technology revolution and we are illuminating the path forward. Headquartered in San Jose, California, we operate worldwide through a network of R&D, manufacturing, and sales locations.