Yield Engineer

Jackson Hogg have exclusively partnered with a specialist manufacturing business in the Durham area, on a Yield Engineer position.
The ideal candidate for this position will have experience within Test Engineering, Process Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering or as a Yield Engineer.
The Yield Engineer will be responsible for the following:

• As part of a larger multi-national organization deliver stable high quality ingot output daily.
  
• Working with the US manufacturing team to maximise yield and provide required supply of material.
  
• Planning for loading. Defining optimal load plan to meet material metrics required by customers.
  
• Lead root cause investigation for excursions and failed runs.
  
• Improve baseline yield from the growth process. Developing and executing experiments, analysing data and concluding to influence future process changes.
  
• Working with the US based R&D team to take small scale experiments to large volume production.
  
• Contributing to capacity management discussions including indicating and determining cap-ex requirements.
  
• Oversight of training of the growth team to ensure rollout of new knowledge and increase skilled coverage in all areas.
  Yield Engineer Requirements
  
• Experienced in a quality orientated manufacturing environment
  
• Ability to travel (no more than one week per month)
  
• Background in high tech environment