Senior Process Engineer

Acara Solutions is hiring Senior Process Engineers for our Newport Beach client's Dry Etch and Wet Etch departments. This is a full-time direct hire position with great benefits.

Salary: 100-185k

Overview: Sustain, improve, and develop etch processes in a volume manufacturing facility. Partner with Operations, Equipment Engineering Support, Integration, and R&D to deliver products on time to customer specification. Interface with global counterparts to benchmark and improve etch processes and procedures company wide. Create and/or modify operations specifications.

Responsibilities:

• Sustaining and improving etch processes in a high-volume manufacturing environment. Monitoring and controlling etch processes, troubleshooting yield problems, developing process enhancements, and implementing new processes to address quality and bottleneck situations.
• Installing and qualifying new tools and process technologies.
• Supporting process and technology transfers.
• Participating in troubleshooting taskforces as needed and helping develop solutions that prevent recurrence.
• Supporting Integration team and Quality organization to ensure technologies meet all qualification and reliability requirements.
• Using lean manufacturing and six sigma processes.

Required Skills / Qualifications:

Either B.S. Degree in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, Solid State Physics, Electrical Engineering, or other relevant engineering physical science discipline is required.

Preferred Skills / Qualifications:

• Prefer minimum 5 years etch process engineering experience with B.S. Degree or 3 years' experience with advanced degree.
• Demonstrated expertise with TEL Unity, AMAT DPS, MXP and/or LAM2300, 9400, 9600 etch tools and processes.
• Demonstrated expertise with Akrion, DNS, SEZ, and/or Semitool wet etch tools and processes.
• Knowledge of PROMIS wip management software and JMP Statistical analysis software. Six sigma certification
• Demonstrated knowledge of etch principles, theories, concepts, and techniques.
• Ability to execute definable portions of a project or lead own small projects.
• Ability to use knowledge to provide solutions to a variety of difficult problems.
• Strong organizational skills; demonstrated ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously and able to react to shifting priorities to meet business needs
• Experience with design of experiment techniques and data analysis
• Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines and commitments
• Excellent interpersonal skills, energetic, and self starter
• Outstanding communication skills - both written and verbal