The Principal Equipment Engineer must have strong Wafer Fab equipment engineering background and experience in the field of CMP tool set. He/She is responsible for the Equipment specification, project management, design review and tool qualification at vendor site and Install, Qualify new tools. Further, He/She work closely with process engineering, maintenance, manufacturing, vendors, and other teams to define, improve, and monitor equipment reliability, throughput and process capability. He/She defines preventative maintenance required for the tool set, deploy and monitor tool performance. He/She will continue to improve tool performance by adapting Lean Preventive Maintenance. By analyzing tool parameters, process capabilities will continue to design/modify tooling or software to bring best tool performance. He/She will create bill of material and plan spare parts requirements depending upon the new technology and capacity requirement. He/She review, analyze and investigate equipment related scraps and provide root cause analysis and effective corrective actions. Being in-house technical equipment expert, he/she will be hands-on technical individuals with strong troubleshooting skills to help, bring the tool up efficiently and effectively upon down-tool escalations.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Take ownership of the new equipment specification, technical negotiation with vendors, design and documentation review, tool installation, and qualification testing and documentation. Ensure project is on schedule, and at the same time deliver with the highest quality by proactively identifying and correcting capability, reliability, and Maintenance issues early on. Generate accurate and detailed documentation for facility, maintenance, stores and process owners.
• Lead or be an active team member to drive continuous improvement programs to improve equipment performance and reliability, maximize Mean Productive Time Between Failure (MTBF), and Operational Uptime (AOU), and minimize Mean Time To Repair (MTTR).
• Provide accurate and detailed documentation as well as training in basic and advanced maintenance and troubleshooting skills along with established best maintenance and safe practices. Practice gage RandR on critical equipment and consumable related measurements. Monitor and follow through for continuous improvement opportunities across all shifts.
• Review and evaluate tool and spare parts related inputs from Maintenance organizations. Provide timely response, proposed timeline and sound actions for continuous improvement opportunities.
• Respond to scrapped wafers that occur due to equipment or maintenance related incidences. Review, analyze and investigate equipment related scraps and provide sound root cause analysis and timely effective corrective actions.
• Define and review regularly the minimum (reorder) and maximum spares quantities on critical and long lead items to ensure inventories are at the correct level to support equipment maintenance and repair effort. Work with store and vendor to ensure in-coming parts meet form, fit, functional and other quality requirements. Generate parts and consumables specifications, checklist and drawings as needed.
• Establish, review regularly, and respond to SPC out of control situation for equipment parameters. Additionally, define jointly with process team to set-up and test process and equipment alarm parameters at the tool. Monitor tool alarm logs regularly and follow through for proactive actions and continuous improvement opportunities. Drive tool matching and yield improvement through design and engineering improvements.
• Keep track of the down tool situation and provide verbal and written instructions to support teams upon request. Respond to down tool escalation calls upon request by Production and Maintenance organizations. Take an active and leading role in bringing the down tool up efficiently and effectively. Observe for lear ing and improvement opportunities across all functions. Follow through with the improvement actions.
• Keep track and learn the applicable new equipment and process technologies for potential wafer fab applications and implementations.