Equipment Engineer – Solar Screen Printing

T1 Energy Inc.; Georgia; On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

T1 Energy is building a first‑of‑its‑kind TOPCon solar cell fab in Rockdale, Texas, and seeks Equipment Engineers to own the toolset for screen printers, dryers, and firing furnaces. This on‑site, day shift role supports a 24/7 fab with on‑call rotations, where you will drive uptime and process improvements.

You’ll write procedures, train technicians, and partner with Process Engineering to optimize print quality and equipment reliability in a fast‑growing solar manufacturing environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, or Mechatronics Engineering.
• 3+ years hands-on equipment engineering in semiconductor or high-volume manufacturing.
• Hands-on repair of screen printers, belt dryers, or firing furnaces.
• Component-level troubleshooting from electrical schematics, pneumatic drawings, P&IDs, and PLC/HMI diagnostics.
• Track record of eliminating a chronic equipment failure, not just repairing it again.
• Safe working practices with metallization pastes and solvents.

Responsibilities

• Own OEE, availability, MTBF, and MTTR for your toolset.
• Be first on the tool when it goes down. Diagnose the failed component, repair it, and restore it.
• Close root cause on chronic failures using 8D, FMEA, and Pareto, and verify the fixes hold.
• Analyze alarm histories, maintenance records, and tool data in JMP, SQL, Python, or Excel to spot failure trends before they cause downtime.
• Own the PM schedule, refine vendor PM procedures, and set critical‑spares levels, then adjust both from failure history.
• Keep interlocks, over‑temperature protection, exhaust and abatement interfaces, and paste and solvent handling controls working across the print line. You’ll do this together with EHS.
• Work with Process Engineering on print alignment, wet weight, screen and stencil life, and firing profile hardware.
• Bring tools through install, SAT, and qualification into production. Write down the procedures and train the technicians who run them.

Skills

Hands-on engineering

Decisive

Clear communicator

Detail-oriented

Systematic

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, or Mechatronics Engineering

Associate degree with equivalent hands-on experience

Tools

JMP

SQL

Python

Excel

Job description

T1 Energy is building a first‑of‑its‑kind TOPCon solar cell fab in Rockdale, Texas, and seeks Equipment Engineers to own the toolset for screen printers, dryers, and firing furnaces. This on‑site, day shift role supports a 24/7 fab with on‑call rotations, where you will drive uptime and process improvements.

You’ll write procedures, train technicians, and partner with Process Engineering to optimize print quality and equipment reliability in a fast‑growing solar manufacturing environment.