Senior Engineering Technician
Santa Clara, California, United States
Responsible for sustaining photolithography equipment, with key deliverable of maximum availability, leading to high quality output through the stations. As tool owner, managed efforts that consistently maintained uptime in supporting the factory to consistently achieve production goals. Recognized as content expert with solid knowledge and experience, consistently providing logical input, and working effectively with tool experts from suppliers and global factory partners.• Engineering equipment owner for exposure tools, responsible for creating and maintaining systems to consistently meet availability goals, cycle time, and maximum output. Owned creation of product files, alignment strategy optimization, and advanced alignment-related troubleshooting.• Daily response and resolution of equipment and process obstacles to enable organization in meeting factory capacity requirements and improving yields.• Authored equipment and operation specifications utilized by manufacturing staff defining standard operations procedures and preventive maintenance instructions. Developed and provided equipment training courses for engineering staff, factory operations, and equipment technicians.• Closely partnered with global factory engineers to develop processes capable of high-volume ramp and world-wide deployment.• Primary point-of-contact for managing engineering and supplier resources, ensuring quality process development for pilot and factory ramp.• Supported numerous equipment installations and upgrades, coordinating vendor and facility resources.