Associate Engineer, Equipment Engineering - Cavite

Role Overview

The Equipment Engineering role supports Manufacturing Operations by ensuring equipment availability, reliability, capability, and continuous improvement in a high-volume semiconductor manufacturing environment. The role partners with Operations, Maintenance, Process Engineering, Quality, Facilities, and other support teams to meet safety, quality, delivery, and productivity targets. Supports equipment engineering activities, maintenance effectiveness, troubleshooting documentation, and improvement initiatives. This role is intended for developing engineers who can learn equipment systems, execute assigned tasks, and contribute to equipment availability and manufacturing support.

Responsibilities

• Ensure assigned manufacturing equipment is maintained, qualified, and capable of supporting production requirements.
• Troubleshoot equipment issues, perform root cause analysis, and drive corrective and preventive actions to minimize downtime and recurrence.
• Implement equipment improvement projects focused on reliability, uptime, yield, cycle time, cost, safety, and manufacturability.
• Support equipment installation, commissioning, qualification, setup validation, and release to production as applicable.
• Assist in troubleshooting equipment issues, documenting findings, and coordinating follow-through actions with engineers, technicians, and production teams.
• Support preventive maintenance activities, checklist validation, data gathering, and equipment performance monitoring.
• Prepare or update basic technical documentation such as work instructions, troubleshooting notes, training materials, and engineering logs.
• Participate in equipment improvement, qualification, conversion, and standardization activities under supervision.
• Collect and analyze basic equipment data to support downtime reduction, repeat issue monitoring, and improvement recommendations.
• Build technical familiarity with assigned equipment, safety requirements, manufacturing standards, and escalation protocols.
• Create, review, and maintain equipment documentation such as work instructions, checklists, maintenance procedures, troubleshooting guides, and engineering reports.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams and vendors to resolve technical issues and ensure timely closure of action items.
• Promote compliance with safety, EHS, quality, change control, and manufacturing standards.
• Provide technical support to production teams during line issues, equipment excursions, and improvement activities.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electronics, Electrical, Mechanical, Mechatronics, Computer, or related Engineering discipline.
• Experience in equipment engineering, maintenance engineering, manufacturing engineering, or related semiconductor/electronics manufacturing function is preferred.
• Working knowledge of equipment troubleshooting, preventive maintenance, root cause analysis, statistical/problem-solving methods, and continuous improvement tools.
• Strong communication, documentation, stakeholder coordination, and analytical skills.
• Willingness to support manufacturing operations, including shifting schedule, on-call support, or extended coverage when business needs require.
• Fresh graduates with strong technical foundation may be considered, depending on business need and hiring manager requirements.
• Relevant internship, OJT, capstone, maintenance, manufacturing, automation, electronics, or equipment-related experience is an advantage.
• High learning agility, attention to detail, documentation discipline, and willingness to work in a manufacturing environment.

Preferred Skills

• Equipment troubleshooting and diagnostics
• Preventive and predictive maintenance
• Root cause analysis and corrective action
• Data analysis and engineering documentation
• Cross-functional coordination
• Safety, quality, and continuous improvement mindset
• Vendor coordination and equipment improvement project execution
• Semiconductor manufacturing exposure or related high-volume manufacturing experience