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Yield Engineer

Durham
1 week ago
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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

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