Manager, Manufacturing Engineering

Job-ID: 2962Category: OperationsLocation: Fremont, CA, United StatesSchedule: Full timeAbout MattsonCompany: Mattson Technology, Inc., a 38-year Silicon Valley company, designs, manufactures, markets, and globally supports plasma and rapid thermal processing equipment to fabricate integrated circuits for the global semiconductor industry.Mattson Technology, Inc. offers processing equipment that utilizes innovative technologies to deliver advanced processing capabilities and high productivity for the fabrication of current and next-generation integrated circuits. Our equipment and technologies are used by leading memory and logic, analog /power device manufacturers worldwide. Innovations from Mattson Technology in Atomic Surface Engineering address the most critical logic and memory manufacturing challenges.In May 2016, Mattson Technology was acquired by Beijing’s E-Town Capital. Our new investor’s vision is that Mattson Technology, with its Silicon Valley DNA, will continue to operate as a global, market-driven technology provider serving worldwide semiconductor manufacturing customers. In July, 2025, the company successfully listed in Shanghai’s STAR Exchange. As the external trade compliance environment evolves, Mattson Technology now operates independently from the parent company in product, business, and operations, serving customers outside of China.Key responsibilities• Interface with R&D and Engineering to ensure Design-for-Manufacturability (DFM) and quality principles are designed into new products• Product documentation packages are complete and properly released• Provide procedures for assembly and test of electromechanical assemblies• Interface with engineering, production personnel and contract manufacturing to define, develop, document and train on assembly and test criterion, manufacturing methods, processes and procedures• Interact with turnkey and contract manufacturers vendors to resolve technical, quality, and design issues• Interface with suppliers, including large scale contract manufacturers• Establish critical process controls• Effectively manage resources, schedule and quality of deliverables• Identify and classify the product and process characteristics and confirm its spec• Establish the potential failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA), drive the corrective and preventive action to correct the defect• Establish the process control plan to control characteristics, spec, method, sampling plan, gage and data record• Production process (routing) planning and standardization, establish the standard work instruction and inspection instruction• For any of the new process, provide immediate training and certification and necessary re-cap training to operators• Diagnose the product, process and quality problems and provide solution for problem solving, capture all the know-how to be part of the engineering improvement process• Product and Process Change (PCN) management, lead the implementation of PCN across the organization• Design, implement and improve the production required equipment, tooling, jig, fixture and gage• Support sales and commercial technical team to validate the manufacturability of the MTM product they designed• Support quality team to quickly solve customer quality problem, involve into the root cause analysis and the corrective/preventive action planning and implementation.• Support the lean manufacturing implementation, innovate the production process to drive the improvement of productivity, quality and cost• New project transfer• Other duties as assignedRequirements:• Minimum of 10 years of progressive engineering experience in a manufacturing environment• BS degree Mechanical Engineering, Electromechanical Engineering or related field• Pro/Engineer experience is desired• The position may require 10% travel to worldwide locations to implement production of products and to locate new, potential suppliers and/or manufacturing locations• Excellent organization skills