Your Role: EMD Electronics is seeking an Equipment Engineering Manager. This role can be based in Breinigsville, PA, Chandler, AZ or Austin, TX. As an Engineering Lead for our semiconductor delivery equipment, you are an integral part of the success of our Delivery Systems and Services business. The business demands that you prioritize safety, quality, reliability, and efficiency. You will drive the execution of new semiconductor equipment offerings that are distributed globally by interacting with quality, operations, engineering, sales, site services, and sourcing teams internally. You will be instrumental in translating customer needs into a valued offering that EMD Electronics can provide. You will create engineering solutions to the problems facing the advancement of the electronics industry.
Responsibilities: Leadership & People Development
- Lead, coach, and develop members of the equipment engineering team
- Establish competency models, technical standards, development plans, succession coverage, and disciplined engineering practices.
- Own performance management, hiring, workforce planning, resource allocation, and organizational capability building.
- Promote a culture of safety, customer focus, innovation, accountability, inclusion, and continuous improvement.
Product Lifecycle Ownership
- Drive technology refresh, value engineering, obsolescence management, component standardization, and margin-improvement initiatives.
- Govern Engineering Change Requests (ECRs), Management of Change (MOC), configuration control, design reviews, and release documentation.
- Balance customer requirements with manufacturability, serviceability, supply continuity, quality, and platform scalability.
New Product Development & Industrialization
- Lead development of new equipment platforms, options, derivatives, and customer-specific configurations using disciplined stage-gate governance.
- Partner with Operations and Manufacturing Engineering to ensure production readiness, test readiness, documentation completeness, and controlled product release.
- Support Sales, Product Management, Applications Engineering, and Site Services with technical proposals, design reviews, and solution positioning.
- Lead complex troubleshooting e.g. customer escalation, structured root-cause analysis, CAPA, yield improvement, and recurring-defect elimination.
- Partner with Quality, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Service, and Operations to improve equipment quality, delivery, cost, and field performance.
- Ensure equipment complies with applicable SEMI, CE, UL, NFPA, IEC, and regional regulatory requirements.
This position will include travel of up to 10%.
Who You Are Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or other Engineering field
- 7+ years of experience in an Engineering role
Preferred Qualifications: - 10+ years of experience in an engineering role
- 5 years of experience with semiconductor aqueous chemical and slurry delivery
- Semiconductor/microelectronics or related experience
- Proven success in applying problem solving and analytical skills
- Ability to understand technical details of products to troubleshoot and drive improvements.
- Leadership skills to influence focus on product development
- Critical attention to detail and investigation skills
- Ability to balance multiple priorities and meet deadlines
- Familiarity with SolidWorks, ASPEN, HAZOP, FMEA, MOC and Flow Modeling applications
- Experience with advanced process control techniques and applications
- Experience with Semi standards
- Knowledgeable in application of metrology including: densitometers, chemical concentration monitors, conductivity meters, liquid particle counters, liquid detectors, pressure and flow transmitters, mass/liquid flow control, spectroscopy
- Experience collaborating with diverse, global teams to meet business and customer needs
- An enthusiastic learner, who wants to solve complex problems in a thriving organization
- Demonstrated business acumen with the ability to develop compelling technical readiness and effectively influence stakeholders across organizational levels and diverse cultural environments
Base Pay Range for this position - $133k - $145,500
The offer range represents the anticipated low and high end of the base pay compensation for this position. The actual compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level of experience, education, skills, and other job-related factors. Position may be eligible for sales or performance-based bonuses. Benefits offered by the Company include health insurance, paid time off (PTO), retirement contributions, and other perquisites. For more information click here.
