Job Description

Key Responsibilities



Lead equipment safety as priority and practice Total preventive management (TPM) with the equipment and process teams.

Develop and drive a strategic roadmap for equipment capability, obsolescence management, technology upgrades across critical tools and robotics implementation for productivity efficiency.

Provide direct leadership, mentorship, and career development for a team of Equipment Engineers and Technicians.

Manage departmental budgets, including capital expenditure (CapEx) for new tools and operational expenditure (OpEx) for spare parts and maintenance.

Operational Excellence & Equipment Performance:

ownership for key performance indicators (KPIs) such as Uptime, Availability time, OEE, MTBF, and MTTR.

Drive and implement advanced data analytics, preventive maintenance (PM) and AI/ML solutions to transform equipment performance and fault prediction. Lead root cause analysis (RCA) and failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) for chronic and major tool issues, implementing effective corrective and preventive actions (CAPA).

Develop and implement long-term sustainability roadmap for fab tools, adopting green technology and reduction in carbon footprint, utilities consumption, gas emission.

Partner and collaborate with Process Engineering, Operations, and Facilities to enhance tool reliability, increase throughput, reduce cost-of-ownership, and improve particle performance.

Work with cross-Functional team to play a key role in the evaluation space, facility infrastructure readiness, and installation of new tools. To ensure new tools are setting up and qualified on schedule, meeting all performance and reliability specifications.

Knowledge in driving paths towards AI implementation, creation of agentic AI in areas of cost, equipment performance and operational excellence.



Required Qualifications



Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Physics, or a related field

Preferable 10+ years of experience in the semiconductor equipment engineering, with proven track record of managing equipment engineering team and a leadership/management role

Deep, hands-on technical knowledge of semiconductor fabrication processes in different modules, with one or more key semiconductor process tools (e.g., Etch, CVD, PVD, Lithography, Implantation, CMP).

Experience in robotics implementation

Strong leadership, presentation, and interpersonal skills, with the proven ability to influence and align technical and executive stakeholders.

Extensive experience with SPC, FMEA, RCA, and Lean Manufacturing principles.

Preferable experience in a greenfab or brownfab expansion/ramp environment.

The above eligibility criteria are not exhaustive. A*STAR may include additional selection criteria based on its prevailing recruitment policies. These policies may be amended from time to time without notice. We regret that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

Type of Employment :

Full-Time

Minimum Experience :

10 Years

Work Location :

Science Park