Mechanical Program Lead Engineer

As a Mechanical Engineer at Lam, youre designing and defining cutting-edge thermo-mechanical and electro-mechanical systems. Your role involves feasibility studies, testing, and guiding teams in detailed design and fabrication.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Position will be owning, executing & realizing results per allocated project & contribute to short-term & long-term dept. goals & objectives as initiatives with key aspect being capability. These projects would be driven as part of New Product Development (NPD), Continuous Improvement Programs (CIP), cost reduction and/or reliability improvement initiatives
• Understands & attains execution of all Lam business processes, standards & compliances and best practices.
• Leading & realizing project or program commitments consistent with established business processes & by adhering to all engineering due diligence (DFMA, dFMEA, tolerance, calculations, FEA - static & dynamic, DFX.)
• Responsible & accountable to execute medium to high complex sub-system related projects with full ownership & continually works to expand ownership on adjacent modules by acquiring new capabilities. Contribute to maturing design of thermo-mechanical, electro-mechanical systems.

Other Job Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership, coaching & mentoring to enable engineers in the team to meet job expectations.
• Drive change by contributing to Productivity and by working on continuous improvement & innovations to influence system architecture with end objective (NX, drawings, GD&T, standards, change mgmt. process)
• Ability to handle customer escalations, field problems including troubleshooting, containment actions, failure analysis report & corrective actions.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Master s in Design/Thermal Engineering with minimum 8 years of relevant experience - preferred (or)
• Bachelor s in Mechanical Engineering with minimum 12 years of relevant experience
• Hands on experience of product development on thermo-mechanical systems of high complexity including sub zero temperature components with execution knowledge of NPD process & engineering due-diligence with problems involving flow, pressure through DOE, testing & statistical approach
• Demonstrated ability to conduct design reviews, seek approval in collaboration with stakeholders to implement design, also contribute to other s design
• Demonstrated leadership skills on decision making and problem-solving in the absence of complete or accurate data, while working with team & also contributing to product/process differentiation through innovation along with working knowledge of Team center and NX or any other CAD tool, SAP PLM release process, product structure and configurations

• Product engineering experience in SEMI & in specific design contributions to Etch chamber, Temperature Control Units (TCU), CRYO related assemblies, Bias Housing, RF and Plasma chemistry
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; ability to present design concepts to peers and management in a professional and effective way
• Good understanding of semiconductor manufacturing processes, equipment, industry standards (SEMI, OSHA, ASME etc.)