Sintering Process Engineer
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Job Location:
Northumberland - UK
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
17 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
As a Sintering Process Engineer you will join our engineering team to support advanced PCB manufacturing programmes with a focus on Silicon Carbide (SiC) die attach and sintering processes. You will work closely with manufacturing materials and product engineering teams to develop optimise and validate high-reliability interconnect and packaging processes for high-performance power electronics.
Location: Bedlington
On Site: Yes
Clearance: None
Experience Level: MidLevel
Key Responsibilities:
- Developing optimising and validating sintering processes for SiC die attach within PCB manufacturing.
- Supporting full manufacturing lifecycle including process setup pilot builds ramp-up and yield improvement.
- Collaborating with cross-functional engineering teams to translate device requirements into robust production processes.
- Conducting process capability studies characterisation tests and failure mode analysis.
- Driving improvements in reliability manufacturability and throughput for die interconnect processes.
- Working with suppliers and equipment partners on materials tooling and sintering equipment.
- Supporting documentation including work instructions process control plans PFMEA and test report
Qualifications :
Required Skills:
- Experience in sintering processes (silver sintering pressure/pressure less sintering or equivalent).
- Background in PCB manufacturing semiconductor packaging or power electronics assembly.
- Familiarity with Silicon Carbide (SiC) semiconductor dies or other wide bandgap devices.
- Hands-on experience transferring processes from development to production.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with data-driven decision-making.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelors or masters degree in Materials Science Mechanical Electrical or equivalent military experience.
Desirable Skills:
- Experience in semiconductor packaging power modules or die attach processes.
- Knowledge of reliability testing thermal cycling or high-power device validation.
- Understanding of metallisation surface prep bonding or advanced PCB technologies.
- Exposure to Six Sigma Lean manufacturing or statistical process control methods.
Additional Information :
Why join us
We bring together entrepreneurial tech-driven people to deliver innovative solutions for leading companies.
At ALTEN youll work on exciting projects supported by ongoing learning mentoring and clear career development tailored to your goals.
Join a passionate team and help build tomorrow today.
In short you get:
- A personalised career path and a rewarding management style
- A huge diversity of engineering projects and industries
- Private Medical Insurance
- Cycle & Tech Scheme
- Employee assistance programme
- Life insurance & Pension Scheme
- Social atmosphere regular gatherings & team buildings
- Flexible way of working (role dependent)
We are proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant & actively encourage applications from members of the Armed Forces community including veterans reservists service leavers and military spouses/partners. We recognise the value of military skills and experience and are committed to ensuring that no applicant is unfairly disadvantaged during our recruitment and selection processes.
This role may require you to have or be willing to go through Security Clearance. As part of the onboarding process candidates will be asked to complete a Baseline Personnel Security Standard; details of the evidence required to apply may be found on the government website . If you are unable to meet this and any associated criteria then your employment may be delayed or rejected . Details of this will be discussed with you at interview.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Key Skills
- Lean Manufacturing
- Six Sigma
- Distributed Control Systems
- Continuous Improvement
- Process Improvement
- Minitab
- Root cause Analysis
- Process Engineering
- cGMP
- Kaizen
- Programmable Logic Controllers
- Manufacturing
About Company
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