Operations Improvement Engineer

Description

The team works on analysing and improving production operations at a semiconductor memory and storage manufacturer, where the goal is better facility use, higher manufacturing efficiency and consistent product quality.

The role builds systems for scheduling and real-time dispatch, line management, production metrics and reporting, statistical analysis and project management.

The role also includes analysing safety data to improve safety behaviour and processes on site.

Responsibilities

• Build and upgrade scheduling and automation tools, covering applications, business rules, heuristics and algorithms, and their integration, so the fab can reach its Line of Sight goals.
• Extend manufacturing simulation systems to make predictions more accurate and to support a wider range of scenario studies.
• Run scenario studies on manufacturing with the simulation systems.
• Advise line managers with technical expertise on linearity, cycle time, line yield, wafer starts and output.
• Work with stakeholders to balance global line priorities against local area optimisation.
• Help with facility optimisation and overall manufacturing efficiency.
• Take part in the weekly OI on-call rotation, covering critical OI issues around the clock, and provide first-level system support plus other on-call tasks set out in the OI on-call training document.
• Share progress updates in good time, flag likely blockers, and make sure projects are prioritised and deliver on time against constraint dates and business needs.

Requirements

• Hold a Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Operations Research, Computer Science, Business Management or a closely related field.
• Design and deliver software solutions.
• Apply agile methods to software development.
• Apply data mining techniques to industrial problems and to relational databases.
• Measure improvements with applied statistics.
• Work in SQL, C, Java or JavaScript.

Conditions

Full-time position.

The US base salary range the company estimates for this role is $106,413.00 to $160,000.00. Further pay and benefits details are in the requisition at Micron.com/careers.

Equal-opportunity and legal details, including the right to work, are available on the company's careers site, and candidates needing application assistance in the US can contact the People Organization.

Benefits

• Choice of medical, dental and vision plans in all locations.
• Income protection if you cannot work due to illness or injury, and paid family leave.
• Generous paid time off and paid holidays.
• Full benefits details are in the Benefits Guide on micron.com/careers/benefits.