About our group: We are seeking a Senior, Equipment Engineer to join our Wafer Equipment Engineering Services in our Bloomington, MN location. In this role as a part of the Wafer Equipment Engineering Services, you will be working in team environment. You will interact with a range of team members from technicians, operators, engineers, and management. And you will have the opportunity to share your knowledge and to learn from others on the team. Seagate believes this is critical to the growth of our employees, as well as our Company. About the role - you will: * Be responsible for development and deployment of Wafer Processing equipment for manufacturing. * Use scientific knowledge and formal systems to find practical solutions to daily problems. This consists of working with direct complex operations geared toward gaining efficiency, productivity, and accuracy. * Evaluate and recommend equipment that is most appropriate and cost effective for the manufacture of company products. * Oversee the installation, modification, upgrade, and maintenance of manufacturing equipment. * Maintain current records on equipment manufacturers' technical notices, upgrades, and safety issues. * Evaluate equipment performance and reliability and take appropriate action. * Establish programs and solutions for increasing uptime and for equipment problems that affect the manufacturing process. * Provide technical support to the manufacturing equipment repair and process engineering organizations. * Develop primary or secondary tool data collection through the implementation of software integration to improve tool performance (SQL / Python / R / .NET) * Implement equipment control strategies using factory automation to improve equipment performance metrics * Create automated workflows to carry out automated decisions and actions based on collected sensors data and events * Define and write preventative maintenance schedules. * Ensure the effective use of materials, equipment, and personnel in producing quality products at minimum costs * Be familiar with Semiconductor / Thin Film Deposition / Ion beam milling / ICP etching tools About you: * Strong written and verbal skills; ability to persuade and gain agreement with cross functional teams * Must be willing to work off shift hours on an "as need" basis Your experience includes: * Demonstrated experience in wafer manufacturing and semiconductor production equipment * Experience with statistical analytic tools, Six Sigma, JMP or Minitab or other statistical software * Demonstrated experience with physical vapor deposition, ion beam milling, ICP etching, or anneal technology in a high to ultra-high vacuum application * Experience in computer hardware and/or programming. * PhD Degree in engineering related field (i.e., electrical, mechanical, chemical, computer engineering, materials, physics) Location: Our Minnesota campus spans two suburbs, Edina and Bloomington, and serves as the Recording Head development and manufacturing arm of Seagate. 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