Senior equipment engineer WET

Are you a technician looking for a role in a dynamic high-tech working environment? Do you get your energy from complex troubleshooting and working on high-tech equipment? Can you handle the demands of getting the maximum out of your toolset? Are you structured enough to oversee and improve technical production processes? Are you analytically minded, allowing you to further optimize our performance? Then this might be an opportunity for you.

NXP Semiconductors N.V. offers "High Performance Mixed Signal" and "Standard Product solutions" that utilize leading technologies. Our products are used in a wide range of applications in the automotive industry, identification, wireless infrastructure, lighting, and mobile, consumer, and computing applications. NXP Semiconductors has operations in more than 35 countries, more than 45,000 employees, and revenue of more than $ 10 billion.

ICN8 is the largest 8-inch wafer fab in Europe. It is a high-tech environment with many multidisciplinary challenges, with more than 450 production tools (ASML, ASM/TEL, Applied Material, LAM,......) and 150 metrology instruments (inline inspections, end of inline testing).

The "Equipment Engineer" supports the Equipment and Process Engineering (EPE) organization by maintaining, initiating, and implementing technical improvements and providing support to the production organization.

The wet process department is characterized as a technical organization with a strong focus on improvements. We are a diverse team with lots of energy, an open collaborative environment, and a eagerness for continuous improvement. The team consists of 8-12 engineers and is primarily focused on supporting production and actively works on improving product quality and tool capacity.

As an Equipment Engineer, you are responsible for a toolset where your focus lies on the more complex problems. In addition to analyzing and solving problems, you actively develop and introduce improvements in the areas of product quality, throughput, waste reduction, cost savings, and reduction of repeaters. Additionally, you support (together with EPE colleagues, technicians, and operators) production so that the ICN8 organization can perform excellently. As an equipment engineer, you report to the Manager EPE IMPLANT/WET/TWM.

Responsibilities:
• Responsible for maintaining and continuously improving your toolset, which meets NXP's safety and quality requirements as well as applicable standards and validation improvements on the shop floor.
• Proactively connects with production and contributes improvement ideas regarding structural technical problems, quality-related matters, and bottleneck issues. Involves other sections and departments where applicable and drives these actions toward successful implementation.
• Uses technical knowledge and experience to contribute to improvement projects.
• Defines the required tool capacity and ensures the correct availability of production tools. Initiates upgrades, supports maintenance actions, and resolves safety issues.
• Proactively monitors quality and analyzes/reports incidents related to issues with your toolset.

Personality
• Analytical, pragmatic, proactive, and customer-oriented
• Confident and able to engage and persuade people, also at higher management levels
• Takes initiative; shows ownership, has a "hands on" mentality
• Collaboration; Is a reliable team player, can listen well, and absorbs other ideas and opinions. Good social/communication skills at different levels in the organization
• Learns quickly, can set priorities and operate independently, and adapt to changing circumstances focused on quality and continuous improvement
• Stress resistant
• Result- and quality-oriented attitude
• Possesses good communication skills