Ocotillo Technology Fabrication Production Manufacturing Engineer

Responsibilities

• Drive cycle time, quality, and output performance across an assigned segment of the semiconductor manufacturing flow.
• Lead cross-functional efforts with operations, module engineering, and factory support teams to remove barriers to WIP movement and improve overall factory execution.
• Monitor and improve Critical Queue Time (CQT) compliance to protect product quality and reduce risk to downstream process performance.
• Identify and eliminate non-value-added (NVA) activities, hidden queue time, and process inefficiencies that degrade cycle time performance.
• Develop and execute structured roadmaps to address chronic cycle time limiters, bottlenecks, and capacity gaps within the production flow.
• Partner with module and operations teams to ensure recovery plans are in place for cycle time misses, queue time excursions, and output shortfalls.
• Analyze factory performance using manufacturing reporting systems, line monitors, and operational metrics to identify trends, flow disruptions, and constraint areas.
• Drive improvements in tool availability, factory velocity, and throughput by coordinating actions across equipment, process, and production teams.
• Apply lean manufacturing, model-based problem solving, and structured continuous improvement methods to solve complex factory issues and improve line performance.
• Facilitate high-quality meetings, action reviews, and performance discussions with clear prioritization, accountability, and follow-through.
• Represent assigned production areas in factory-wide forums, ensuring alignment on priorities, escalations, and execution plans.
• Coach partner teams on best practices in flow optimization, queue management, productivity, and operational discipline.
• Apply knowledge of factory physics, WIP behavior, line balancing, and supply-demand interactions to improve manufacturing outcomes in a fast-paced, high-cadence fab environment.
• Own and maintain Strategic Capacity Roadmaps, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and traceability of all capacity metrics across all OTF technologies.
• Validate and recalculate key capacity metrics (RR, EFL, PC, RW, Sampling) at minimum quarterly cadence; perform ad-hoc reviews for limiter or focus tools.
• Maintain alignment between capacity roadmaps and productivity or capacity-impacting projects and timely into ROADS to ensure roadmap reflects current execution plans.
• Support strategic and ad-hoc capacity reviews (i.e. MRC / TF) with clear, data-supported analysis.

  Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering, supply chain, or related STEM field
  • 3+ years of relevant experience in one or more of the following: Semiconductor, high-volume manufacturing, or factory operations environment.
  • Factory systems, production control, inventory management, or manufacturing execution/reporting systems.
  • Experience in Data analysis (JMP, SPC, MATLAB, Mathematica), Design of experiment (DOE) principles, Semiconductor processes (Thin Films, Diffusion, Planar, Implant, Litho, Etch, and/or Metrology).