Lead Engineer, Manufacturing Equipment 1 1 1

SMT Equipment Maintenance Engineer is responsible for hands-on maintenance troubleshooting and repair of advanced manufacturing equipment with a primary focus on SMT lines. This role ensures maximum uptime and performance for SMT equipment automated test systems robotic assembly cells and liquid cooling infrastructure supporting L6 through L11 product builds.

Key Requirements & Experience

• Experience Level: Minimum 4 years of direct hands-on experience in troubleshooting repairing and maintaining SMT manufacturing equipment in a production environment.

• Education: Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Electrical Mechatronics or Manufacturing Engineering (or an Associate Degree / Technical Diploma in Electro-Mechanical Technology with equivalent years of dedicated SMT repair experience).

Key Roles and Responsibilities

• SMT Repair & Troubleshooting: Act as the primary hands-on technical lead for diagnosing repairing and resolving mechanical electrical pneumatic and vision system failures on active SMT equipment.

• Maintenance & Reliability: Execute hands-on preventive maintenance (PM) component replacements and machine calibrations to optimize Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) on SMT lines and fluidic systems.

• Equipment Installation & Qualification: Lead the physical deployment alignment mechanical setup and validation of SMT equipment automated test systems and Cooling Distribution Units (CDUs).

• Thermal System Management: Perform physical setup maintenance and pressure/leak testing of liquid cooling infrastructure cold plates and manifold networks for L11 rack-level integration.

• NPI & Production Support: Work directly on the shop floor alongside Process Engineering and NPI teams to ensure machine readiness during line bring-up and product transitions.

• Spare Parts Management: Maintain physical spare parts inventory (pick-and-place nozzles feeders valves pumps sensors) and liaise with equipment vendors for hardware escalation.

• Continuous Improvement: Perform mechanical retrofits machine upgrades and physical process tweaks to enhance throughput yield and machine repeatability.

• Core Skill Sets

  • Direct SMT Expertise: 4 years of proven hands-on experience performing board-level mechanical and component repairs on SMT machinery (e.g. screen printers pick-and-place reflow ovens AOI/SPI).

  • Electromechanical Repair: Proficiency in reading electrical schematics mechanical blueprints and pneumatic diagrams to physically isolate and repair component-level failures.

  • Automation & Controls: Direct experience working with PLCs motor drives encoders pneumatic actuators and machine vision sensors.

  • Data-Driven Problem Solving: Ability to utilize fault codes machine diagnostic software and sensor logs to solve chronic equipment breakdowns.

  • Safety & Compliance: Strict adherence to Lockout/Tagout (LOTO) ESD control standard operating procedures machine guarding and chemical/coolant safety guidelines.

Refer to technical skills below

• Duties of this position are performed in a normal office environment.
• Duties may require extended periods of sitting and sustained visual concentration on a computer monitor or on numbers and other detailed data.
• Repetitive manual movements (e.g. data entry using a computer mouse using a calculator etc.) are frequently required.
• Occasional travel may be required.

• 3 years of related experienc;Experience in similar job roles

Bachelor degree or consideration of an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering (BSME)
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (BSEE)
Bachelor of Science in Mechatronics or Robotics Engineering
Bachelor of Science in Manufacturing or Industrial Engineering

Educational Requirements may vary by Geography

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities of the position. Employees are held accountable for all duties of the job. Job duties and the % of time identified for any function are subject to change at any time.