Ultra Clean Technologies (UCT), is seeking an energetic and motivated team player to fill a Sr Process Engineer role to join our fast-paced, global engineering team, based in Hillsboro, OR. This is your opportunity to develop or apply statistical theory and methods to collect, organize, interpret, and summarize numerical data. The Sr Process Engineer will report to the SPC Program Manager and is responsible to support implementation of the Corporate SPC program across all sites. This will entail problem solving and proposing systematic solutions utilizing statistical software to speed and enable decision making based on statistical analysis. You will be working directly with site engineering teams to progress the SPC program to meet our customers’ needs and provide data driven information for improved and efficient decision making. SPC Program Manager will interact directly with customers to understand customer SPC requirements and manage the implementation of those requirements at global sites.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
Educational/Certification Requirement:
Experience Requirement:
Work Experience:
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Demonstrate, improve and develop others to core SPC skill requirements
- Develop SPC training program oriented specifically to operator and engineering level knowledge
- Monitor progression of SPC program at global sites– drive CIP with site engineering
- Participate in cross-functional site and customer SPC reviews.
- Define, develop, and deliver standard reports for internal and external customers.
- Work with data scientists to develop automated tracking of internal KPI’s for SPC program. Define needs specific to customer, and the overall infrastructure for SPC metric tracking.
- Support interdepartmental needs for statistical analysis of large datasets
- Proliferate culture of improvement - reward sites and individuals for advancing SPC program
- Identify gaps in SPC program and propose plans for improvement
- Evaluates work methods, procedures, and policies. Identifies, documents, and implements new business processes and efficiency improvement tools. Mentors and trains lower-level engineers; identifies training needs, updates training curriculums, and develops training programs.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Application of statistical expertise within a complex manufacturing environment – requires hands-on learning for familiarity with process lines, products, metrology tools etc.
- Project Management leadership – experience successfully leading cross-functional teams
- Demonstrated project management skills – defining deliverables, owners, team-building
- SQC/SPC application in Manufacturing and/or Service environment. Statistical tools proficiency – JMP, Minitab, or similar.
- Ability to evaluate SPC charts and understand potential sources and path forward for various types of chart behavior
- Communication skills – presenting information to internal and external customers in a concise, confident manner with data. The ability to be receptive to customer feedback and understand how to apply it. Internally, communication skills within a cross functional team with the purpose to achieve a unified goal.
- Must possess the skills to resolve problems and ensure that critical business data integrity issues can be identified and resolved.
- Ability and proven experience to develop effective training tools
- Advanced statistical skill required with the ability to train others at various levels of competency
Educational/Certification Requirement:
- Advanced statistics or engineering degree preferred. A combination of education and experience will be considered in lieu of an advanced statistical degree
Experience Requirement:
Work Experience:
- 5+ years as a Process Engineer, or applicable statistical engineering work.
- Advanced statistics or engineering degree. A combination of education and experience will be considered in lieu of an advanced statistical degree
- Project Management leadership – experience successfully leading cross-functional teams
- Statistical software proficiency – JMP, Minitab, etc
