FAB Engineer Lead

As a Dry Etch Equipment Supervisor, your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to

EHSS Compliance

• Ensures compliance to all Safety work standards for the site, as well as local area requirements
• Follows and holds team accountable to all standards of operation relative to Safety:  Following and improvement of procedures, MSDS, LOTO, JHA, PPE, Good Catch Program, Evacuation and muster station support, near miss, and HazOps
• Communicates and advances concerns promptly through site safety or area management

Leadership

• Demonstrates and promotes the Micron Behaviors
• Supports and exceeds all personnel management requirements, goals, and timelines
• Drive area line of sight (LOS) goals, area KPIs/metrics and other continuous improvement initiatives (TPM, AVAIL, TLD, Alarm reduction, First Qual pass etc.)
• Engages in conflict management and resolution in a timely manner
• Succession planning, develop, mentor and coach team members
• Maintains training, shift readiness and proficiency compliance of yourself and your team. Zero Expired LI’s.
• Holds regular 1-1’s with a focus on feed forward/feedback, performance management, and clarification of expectations
• Applies effective documentation for team member performance, development plans, performance plans, PIP/PSP forms, and general employee records
• Leads teams OT compliance to Micron’s guidelines/ rules
• Initiates and drive efforts to elevate team’s engagement and motivation to build a high performing and cohesive team
• Sets the standard for themselves/team to consistently live ‘Above the line’ to ensure accountability.
• Promotes benchmark culture with the highest level of dedication, execution, partnership, professionalism and leadership
• Reviews and approve TOP requests, staffing/ resources management and Timesheets!
• Be an ardent supporter of TPM initiatives/ goals and teams. Drive down the concepts and active participation to your team!

Operational Performance

• Drive Accountability for your team to implement to company policies, Micron behaviors, disciplines, department ground rules and area goals/ initiatives.
• Supervises WIP scheduler to ensure we meet ship pace requirements
• Actively uses shown understanding of inventory, capacity, scheduling, and utilization to improve product movement
• Tactically leads and direct resources towards down tools according to moves/ Fab priority
• Tactically is responsible for the number of down tools and down time budget every shift while looking for opportunities to drive and improve Safety, WASTE, effective tool recoveries to hit AVAIL targets
• Handles queue times and follow up on violations
• Handles human mistakes/ errors, performs human factor interviews and drive good preventive actions to prevent repeats.
• Monitors and reacts to equipment alarms and recurring failures
• Drive and sustain TPM integrity through 6S, m-tags and CIP execution. Perform daily and weekly walks/ spot checks for compliance to standards and coach team members on Automotive Quality Mindset (AQM).
• Improves PM performance by achieving G2G, qual time, First Qual pass, and other performance to plan metric goals
• Monitors and reacts to improving efficiency and capabilities of your team members
• Monitors and reacts to quality metrics such as scrap, CQDR, RQDR, broken wafers and TLD with QDR (S/CQDR impacts)
• Tactically supervises R and M spend and helps advance when vital
• Participates in and chips in to systematic problem-solving sessions as well as CIP projects Monitors Engineering Performance
• Writes concise process related ECN’s, when appropriate. Keeps up to date on and helps communicate area changes.
• Analyzes metrology, RDA, inline, probe and/or param data to understand process issues and help advance and/or resolve them
• Evaluation, revision and implementation of continuous improvement of PMQ, qual strategies and reaction mechanisms for SPC OOC, FD, R2R, and other control plans
• Develops, implements, and optimizes Design of Experiments
• Implements procedural modification changes based on process and equipment performance
• Makes decisions based upon statistical analysis of DTS, SPC, FDC, R2R, equipment logs, and other relevant engineering data
• Drives and leads large continuous improvement projects to improve the area, team performance, metrics and team engagement.
• Leads projects that drive technical innovation resulting in equipment and/or process enhancement
• Facilitates systematic methods such as KT, 5 Why, and full 8D processes
• Defines, leads, and drives execution to recovery plans and actions associated to deviated processes

Minimum Education/ Experience Requirement

• Bachelor’s degree in Microelectronics, chemical engineering, material science, Electrical engineering, or related engineering degrees Or 12 years or related semiconductor industry experience (as equivalency)
• Proven track record of leading effective teams and delivering results, exceeding metrics.
• Minimum 3 years of prior leadership experience in semiconductor manufacturing (preferred but not required)
• Prior Dry Etch experience (Preferred)

* Must be willing to work night shift and flexible with schedule to participate, drive and support Continuous improvement initiatives!