Equipment Engineering Manager

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This role does not offer sponsorship for work authorization. External applicants must be eligible to work in the US.
Your Role:
EMD Electronics is seeking an Equipment Engineering Manager. This role can be based in Breinigsville, PA, Chandler, AZ or Austin, TX. As an Engineering Lead for our semiconductor delivery equipment, you are an integral part of the success of our Delivery Systems and Services business. The business demands that you prioritize safety, quality, reliability, and efficiency. You will drive the execution of new semiconductor equipment offerings that are distributed globally by interacting with quality, operations, engineering, sales, site services, and sourcing teams internally. You will be instrumental in translating customer needs into a valued offering that EMD Electronics can provide. You will create engineering solutions to the problems facing the advancement of the electronics industry.
Responsibilities:
Leadership & People Development
Lead, coach, and develop members of the equipment engineering team
Establish competency models, technical standards, development plans, succession coverage, and disciplined engineering practices.
Own performance management, hiring, workforce planning, resource allocation, and organizational capability building.
Promote a culture of safety, customer focus, innovation, accountability, inclusion, and continuous improvement.
Product Lifecycle Ownership
Drive technology refresh, value engineering, obsolescence management, component standardization, and margin-improvement initiatives.
Govern Engineering Change Requests (ECRs), Management of Change (MOC), configuration control, design reviews, and release documentation.
Balance customer requirements with manufacturability, serviceability, supply continuity, quality, and platform scalability.
New Product Development & Industrialization
Lead development of new equipment platforms, options, derivatives, and customer-specific configurations using disciplined stage-gate governance.
Partner with Operations and Manufacturing Engineering to ensure production readiness, test readiness, documentation completeness, and controlled product release.
Support Sales, Product Management, Applications Engineering, and Site Services with technical proposals, design reviews, and solution positioning.
Lead complex troubleshooting e.g. customer escalation, structured root-cause analysis, CAPA, yield improvement, and recurring-defect elimination.
Partner with Quality, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Service, and Operations to improve equipment quality, delivery, cost, and field performance.
Ensure equipment complies with applicable SEMI, CE, UL, NFPA, IEC, and regional regulatory requirements.
This position will include travel of up to 10%.
Who You Are
Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or other Engineering field
7+ years of experience in an Engineering role
Preferred Qualifications:
10+ years of experience in an engineering role
5 years of experience with semiconductor aqueous chemical and slurry delivery
Semiconductor/microelectronics or related experience
Proven success in applying problem solving and analytical skills
Ability to understand technical details of products