Surface Treatment Supplier Engineer

The Group You’ll Be A Part Of

The Global Operations Group brings information systems, facilities, supply chain, logistics, and high-volume manufacturing together to drive the engine of our global business operations. We help Lam deliver industry-leading solutions with speed and efficiency, while actively supporting the resilient and profitable growth of Lam's business.

The Impact You’ll Make

As a Supplier Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer at Lam, you'll make an impact in ensuring suppliers manufacturing processes and products meet quality standards by designing, implementing, and maintaining quality assurance programs. You design methods for inspecting, testing, and evaluating production processes and finished products onsite at our global suppliers’ locations. By analyzing production data, you identify trends and partner with the supplier to resolve technical, quality and production challenges. Your expertise will help develop excellence in supplier product inputs supporting Lam's commitment to delivering high-quality and reliable products.

Job Responsibilities

• Perform professional engineering examination and evaluation of Lam’s suppliers for surface treatments including precision cleaning, coating, anodizing, plating, and micro-contamination control
• Ensure suppliers’ manufacturing processes are in place to produce reliable products in a repeatable manner. Develop and audit quality control systems. Develop and drive supplier improvement plans.
• Develop and execute plans for failure analysis on products returned from the field related to inorganic, organic, and particle contamination and material issues.
• Coordinate development activities with suppliers and product groups in developing new products.
• Conduct effective supplier visits in evaluating and managing new and existing suppliers.
• Design and execute an experiment, review data, develop conclusions.
• Implement industry standard process control techniques such as six sigma techniques to manage and develop production efficiencies and quality for Lam products.

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum Education: BS/MS degree in a technical field listed in (but not limited to) the following: ChE, Chemistry, Mat Sci
• 7+ years applicable experience specific to surface treatments such as anodizing, coating, and plating, contamination control, precision cleaning, material science, and manufacturing processes and design, preferably in the semiconductor industry.
• Strong project management, organizational and communication skills required.
• The ability to read drawings (with understanding of ASME Y14.5) required.
• Working knowledge of SPC required.

Our Commitment

We believe it is important for every person to feel valued, included, and empowered to achieve their full potential. By bringing unique individuals and viewpoints together, we achieve extraordinary results.

Lam Research ("Lam" or the "Company") is an equal opportunity employer. Lam is committed to and reaffirms support of equal opportunity in employment and non-discrimination in employment policies, practices and procedures on the basis of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, or military and veteran status or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. It is the Company's intention to comply with all applicable laws and regulations. Company policy prohibits unlawful discrimination against applicants or employees.

Lam offers a variety of work location models based on the needs of each role. Our hybrid roles combine the benefits of on-site collaboration with colleagues and the flexibility to work remotely and fall into two categories – On-site Flex and Virtual Flex. ‘On-site Flex’ you’ll work 3+ days per week on-site at a Lam or customer/supplier location, with the opportunity to work remotely for the balance of the week. ‘Virtual Flex’ you’ll work 1-2 days per week on-site at a Lam or customer/supplier location, and remotely the rest of the time.