Process Sustaining Engineer

Location: Fayetteville, Arkansas

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

At Wolfspeed, we do amazing things in a human way.  

We know that the achievements of our organization are due to the passion, hard work and creativity of our employees. We celebrate different perspectives to foster excellence across our organization, and our goal is to make diversity a foundation of what we do. We are proudly building an environment where you can bring your authentic self to work.  

• Enjoy doing things that people say can’t be done? Innovation is at the center of everything we do.  
• Hate red tape? We remove roadblocks instead of creating them. 
• Working parent? We provide childcare assistance and paid parental leave. 
• Student? We offer continuing education assistance. 
• Looking for community? There are many ways to get involved, from Employee Resource Groups to local outreach. 

Here’s the Gist: 

This job opportunity is for a product sustaining engineer in the Global Operations Engineering Team experienced in and responsible for product sustainment of SiC packages specifically targeted at manufacturability and yield & cycle time maintenance and improvements.  This role takes ownership of product after handoff from R&D and carries it through the remainder of its life cycle.  Partnership with NPI, Applications, Quality, Test, and Supply Chain teams is paramount to overall success. 

The Day-to-Day: 

• Provide product expertise and guidance when interacting with other unit teams. 
• Ramp new products released from R&D while monitoring performance and driving improvements. 
• Identify and drive improvements in manufacturability, yield, performance and reliability for our packaged products. 
• Make decisions using detailed analysis and constructive thinking.
• Sustain and improve manufactured product at package producing locations, some international travel may be required.
• Partner with NPI, application, quality, test and supply chain teams in the product life cycle to promote initial and sustainable manufacturability.
• Partner with Supply Chain team to enable successful implementation and qualification of multi-sourced vendors for packaged product bill of materials.
• Participate in design and product gating reviews to ensure design for manufacturability best practices are followed.
• Participate in initiatives that include yield and quality improvements
• Recommend and implement product modifications to improve production efficiencies.
• Lead and/or help implement product change and process change review boards.
• Support quality management activities such as audits, returned material reviews and problem-solving feedback to customers.
• Assisting with supplier selection, sustainment and improvement initiatives.
• Support qualifications and product or process changes with data analysis, review and approval. 

This Job is Right for You if You Have (Minimum Requirements): 

• Excellent project management skills with demonstrated ability to identify product improvements, manage change and implement solutions 
• Excellent interpersonal and collaborative skills
• Ability to work with a sense of urgency
• Experience in package design and manufacturing
• Experience with product modeling and drafting
• Working knowledge and experience with engineering tools such as FMEA, SPC, Pareto Analysis, Design of Experiments and structured problem-solving methods (8D, 5-Why, DMAIC)
• >3 years process engineering experience
• BS in electrical, mechanical, materials, process engineering or applied science 

This Job is Right for You if You Have (Highly Preferred Skills and Qualifications): 

• Expertise with continuous improvement tools and techniques (5S, Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma) 
• Expertise with JMP for data review/analytical studies
• Expertise with package design and manufacturing
• Expertise with product modeling and drafting
• >5 years process engineering experience
• MS/PhD in electrical, mechanical, materials, process engineering or applied science 

This role may require additional duties and/or assignments as designated by management. 

To put it legally – Wolfspeed is an equal opportunity employer.

We recruit, employ, train, compensate and promote regardless of race, sex, religion, color, national origin, disability, age, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation and other protected status as required by law.