Applied Materials

Supplier Engineer III - (E3)

Posted on: 31 Jan 2022

Austin, TX

Job Description

The SE team is a supportive, cross-functional team with many different skillsets and experiences, lending itself to many learning opportunities from within the team. Additionally, Applied Materials has extensive internal and external training programs offering various certifications and development opportunities tailored specifically for the engineer’s skill sets and goals. The highly dynamic workload is project-focused, allowing the engineer to manage individual work schedules.

This requisition will be strongly dotted line to Jeffrey Gamm and directly report to Jung Lim.

Key Responsibilities

Leads quality problem resolutions and incident management, drive root cause, preventative and corrective actions.  
Collaborating with Manufacturing, Engineering, and Global Supplier Engineering for their technical expertise to obtain rapid supplier resolutions.  
Drive systemic supplier performance improvement plans and projects for reducing quality defects and improve supplier’s capability.
Conduct process and part audits at supplier sites – part to print verification, quality management system review, root cause analysis, and corrective actions.
Train and develop suppliers to comply with Applied’s quality methodologies – 8D, responding to non-conformances, change management controls, failure analysis.
Proliferate key learnings and BKMs into the supply base.
Prepare and present executive summaries on supplier capabilities, customer and factory escalations.

The preferred candidate will have extensive experience in

Direct manufacturing and industry experience in precision machining, OEM products, contract manufacturing, and special finishing processes such as painting, coating, plating, and cleaning.
Well versed in quality management systems and methodologies.
Value Stream Mapping
Creative problem solving
Manufacturing/machining process development and qualification
Program/project management
Sound knowledge of GD&T and Engineering Drawing Interpretation
Design of Experiments, statistical process control methods, and theory
PFMEA
Knowledge of Metrology design and Optical/Contact Measurement Equipment
Understanding the broad scope of a factory’s methods and processes:  material control, inspection/QC, cleaning, 5S, tool crib, tool life management, detailing, packaging.
Working knowledge of Excel and JMP
Excellent written and verbal communication
Strong team player

Applied Materials

Santa Clara, CA

Applied Materials, Inc. provides manufacturing equipment, services, and software to the semiconductor, display, and related industries. It operates through three segments: Semiconductor Systems, Applied Global Services, and Display and Adjacent Markets. The Semiconductor Systems segment develops, manufactures, and sells various manufacturing equipment that is used to fabricate semiconductor chips or integrated circuits. This segment also offers various technologies, including epitaxy, ion implantation, oxidation and nitridation, rapid thermal processing, physical vapor deposition, chemical vapor deposition, chemical mechanical planarization, electrochemical deposition, atomic layer deposition, etching, and selective removal, as well as metrology and inspection tools.

The Applied Global Services segment provides integrated solutions to optimize equipment and fab performance and productivity comprising spares, upgrades, services, remanufactured earlier generation equipment, and factory automation software for semiconductor, display, and other products. The Display and Adjacent Markets segment offers products for manufacturing liquid crystal displays; organic light-emitting diodes; and other display technologies for TVs, monitors, laptops, personal computers, electronic tablets, smart phones, and other consumer-oriented devices, as well as equipment for flexible substrates.

The company serves manufacturers of semiconductor wafers and chips, liquid crystal and organic light-emitting diode displays, and other electronic devices. It operates in the United States, China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Southeast Asia, and Europe. Applied Materials, Inc. was founded in 1967 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

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