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Cree currently has openings for Process Development Engineers within our R&D group at our headquarters in Durham, NC. This includes our NPI, Automotive, Epitaxy, Wafer fab, and LED components groups.
What can Cree do for you?
In this position, you will have the opportunity to work with a team of scientists, engineers, and technicians to develop and transfer into production new LED-based solid state lighting products and processes.
What can you do for Cree?
Successful candidates will be self-motivated, hands-on, strong aptitude for learning new skills, and resourceful problem-solvers with the capacity to quickly grasp and resolve a wide range of technical issues through the implementation of practical solutions to complicated problems.
If you are someone who loves a fast-paced environment and enjoys solving highly complex technical problems, then we encourage you to read through the next two sections which describe the type of experience and education we’re looking for.
Key Attributes:
- Self-starter with strong personal work ethic. Must have a "whatever it takes" attitude.
- Able to make individual contributions, but stay focused on the goals of the group.
- Able to adjust to changing priorities and schedules.
- Able to gather data and interpret results for product/process development and support continuous process improvement.
- Thrives in high-pressure, deadline-oriented environment.
- Able to both make and follow verbal and written work instructions.
- Strong attention to details and problem-solving abilities.
- Willing and able to provide training to other Cree personnel where appropriate to improve over-all capabilities and knowledge.
- Able to develop, test, and document workable procedures presented at a level suitable for the intended users.
- Flexible work schedule to support 24 x 7 development and manufacturing
Minimum Qualifications:
- BS/MS in Applied Physics, Materials Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or other technical field.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Semiconductor/manufacturing process development or relevant co-op or internship experience.
- Solid understanding of solid state physics and fundamentals of materials science.
- Experience with different semiconductor or LED process development areas (e.g. wire bonding, die attach, encapsulation, optical and electrical testing, wafer fabrication, MOCVD, epitaxial growth, photolithography, wet/dry etch, automotive quality standards, etc.).
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CREE’s Global Operation’s Team is seeking a Sub-Fab Materials Technician. This position provides support for the Opto and Materials departments from outside of the labs. Successful candidate will have demonstrated the ability to work in a small group with minimum supervision and have excellent customer service skills.
This is a rotating 6:00 AM – 6:15 PM shift position.
Job Responsibilities:
- Change hazardous waste totes and drums for the Wafer Fab and Epi areas.
- Change gas cylinders and complete chemical fills. These include the bulk NH3 systems for Epi and various tools in the Wafer Fab area.
- Complete daily checks on Epi and Wafer Fab equipment in the Subfab.
- Complete QA tasks on pumps and chillers
- Rebuild/repair critical spare parts.
- Routinely run parts and chemicals to the Epi and Wafer Fab labs.
- Troubleshooting and repair of equipment.
- Daily cleaning of the areas.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Associates Degree in Electronics Technology or similar technical degree
- 2 + years semiconductor equipment maintenance repair experience or equivalent military experience.
- Ability to read and interpret blue prints, schematics, and maintenance manuals
- Working knowledge of high vacuum equipment, electronic circuitry and PLC controllers
- PC experience – MS Word, Excel, Access, Oracle
- Must be willing to work overtime to support needs of business
- Must be able to be medically cleared to wear a respirator
- Must be able to regularly lift 65 lbs.
- Candidate must be a US Citizen or Green Card holder
Preferred Qualifications:
- Must be organized, neat, detailed, conscientious, and thorough.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and oral.
- Willingness to work around compressed gasses, acids, solvents vacuum pump oils, and other chemicals
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CREE’s Global Operations Team is seeking a Manufacturing Equipment Maintenance Technician. This position provides manufacturing equipment sustaining support for the Wafer Fab and adjacent semiconductor manufacturing areas. A successful candidate will have demonstrated the ability to perform corrective, preventative and predictive maintenance tasks designed to improve/sustain equipment availability, reliability and maintainability. Successful experienced candidates will be able to demonstrate a strong troubleshooting capability and exemplary “root cause” corrective skills and techniques.
This is a 12-hour night shift position.
Responsibilities:
- Performs Electro-mechanical root cause troubleshooting of semiconductor manufacturing equipment.
- Disassembles, repairs, and reassembles equipment according to operating manuals, schematics, blueprints, etc.
- Uses test and diagnostic equipment to perform equipment checks.
- Works with process engineers to understand process-equipment interactions and limitations relative to operating specs.
- As needed, modifies equipment to improve up- time or overall process performance.
- Performs routine preventive maintenance on tools in accordance with equipment specifications.
- Supports production as needed.
Minimum Qualifications:
- AAS in Electronics Technology or equivalent military electronics experience
- 3+ years equipment maintenance experience
- Ability to read and interpret instructions, schematics, and maintenance manuals
- Working knowledge of vacuum and gas delivery systems
- Team player with a positive attitude
- Strong work ethic and self-starter, ability to perform assigned tasks with little direction/supervision
- Must be able to lift 65 lbs.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 3+ years equipment maintenance experience on semiconductor tools
- BS in Mechanical Engineering or Electrical Engineering disciplines
- Working knowledge of Statistical Process Control
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This position in the LED Products Pilot Line group will be responsible for developing high power LED assembly processes that result in rapid time to market of new products.
*This opening is for a 12 hour night shift.*
What can Cree do for you?
- You will have the opportunity to gain diversified development experience working on multiple projects
- Ability to directly work and assist in developing our next generation of LED products
- Potential for upward mobility in a thriving organization
- High visibility role
- What can you do for Cree?
- Learn and perform tasks related to the mechanical assembly, optical and electrical testing, and characterization of LEDs.
- Execute electrical, mechanical and photonic experiments to aid product development team in next generation packaged LED solutions.
- Collect data, analyze results, and issue recommendations.
- Understand complete assembly process flow for product line. Must have the ability to communicate procedures for tool sets and can use observation skills to make adjustments on tools.
- Responsible for creating documentation for new procedures and work instructions after process development is completed.
- Provide support to team members to investigate/resolve processing issues and suggest solutions to prevent future occurrence
- Support equipment engineering on tool troubleshooting and preventative maintenance.
- What you need for success:
- Experience working on an automated assembly line
- Candidate must be a US Citizen or Permanent Resident
- Ability to conduct multiple tasks required
- MS Word, MS Excel, and MS Access experience required
- Good communication skills required, both written and oral
- Must be able to follow detailed instructions
- Must have excellent hand-eye coordination.
- Excellent mechanical aptitude.
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In order to expand the GaN HEMT technology offerings, Wolfspeed’s RF R&D group is looking to hire a Process Development Engineer with focus on Process Integration, Thin Film, Etch and Photolithography. The engineer will have a solid understanding of the semiconductor processing and he/she will be able to develop novel processes that will advance Wolfspeed’s GaN HEMT technology. We are looking for a technically creative person, highly motivated individual, who is excited to work in a dynamic environment.
Due to ITAR regulations, this role must be filled by a US Citizen or a Green Card Holder.
What can we do for you?
- Join and organization that is the leader in GaN telecom space.
- Have hands on impact on the new Wolfspeed products.
- Be a part of creating new technology being introduced into industry including helping to define how 5G network is going to operate 5-10 years from now.
What can you do for our company?
- Own various GaN HEMT R&D projects in the fab, develop unit processes and oversee engineering lot fabrication.
- Monitor and drive improvements in yield, cycle time, and long term reliability for GaN production.
- Hold lot and low yielding lot disposition and product movement needed to meet revenue goals.
- Perform process experiments for yield improvements and to segment and identify yield detractors.
- Operation of electronic test equipment and utilization of computer software tools for data analysis.
- Document manufacturing process flows, requiring clear written and verbal communication skills.
- Documentation includes travelers, control plan, process flow spec, inspection requirements, and split lot instructions.
- Perform independently on routine assignments. Must be able to follow specific instructions to perform tasks that require a higher knowledge of engineering techniques in supporting GaN production requirements.
- Routine chart and data review for performance of production material.
- Mentoring, coaching and training of process technicians and operators.
- This position requires significant cleanroom time working in conjunction with Fab sustaining engineers.
What you need for success:
- Candidate must be a US Citizen or Green Card holder.
- BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Material Science, Chemical Engineering, Applied Physics or other relevant Physical Science major.
- Semiconductor Industry experience in a production environment.
- Modern data analysis skills such as JMP and Excel.
- High level understanding and experience with Statistical Process Control.
- Able and willing to support 24/7 projects as needed.
- Must have a positive, professional, energetic, can-do attitude.
- Organization skills, the ability to multi-task and set priorities to meet goals in a fast-paced environment.
- Flexible goal setting mindset
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills and the ability to work in a team environment are imperative for this employee.
Highly preferred skills and certifications:
- Demonstrated understanding of the science and technology needed to fabricate semiconductor devices including ion implantation, oxide growth, diffusion, photolithography, wet and dry etch, thin film deposition and metal deposition.
- Good working knowledge of semiconductor device physics.
- Understanding of Failure analysis techniques (FIB, STEM, SIMS, EDS) to support root cause understanding of yield detractors.
- Ability to manage, in parallel, multiple technical tasks with different requirements and timelines.
- Familiarity with ANOVA, DOE principles, SPC techniques, JMP software, JMP scripting, Klarity, SQL.
- Coding experience.
- Experience in process integration or process development in a semiconductor fab.
- Semiconductor processing experience related to III-V or GaN RF power devices.
- RF test experience will be a large plus.
- Good understanding of semiconductor device fabrication, assembly, package and test.
- Must have ability to work effectively and take initiative with little continuous direct supervision.
- Ability to handle sudden changes in daily priorities.
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Summary: We are looking for a talented Systems Engineer who has the experience necessary to help build out our existing infrastructure and troubleshoot problems as they arise.We’re a growing company with a team of highly dedicated IT professionals who give their all to help our enterprise flourish. The ideal candidate for this position can prioritize mission critical tasks and coordinate the construction and expansion of our systems so updates and other maintenance tasks don’t get in the way of daily operations. We’re interested in automating as many of our processes as possible to reduce the potential for human error.
As a key member of our IT Data Center Operations staff, you will work closely with all business liaisons to help design cost effective and scalable upgradeable strategies both on premises as well as in cloud providers. The engineer will lead IMS teams, prepare scope documents, and implement best practices for provisioning to ensure investment in technology is consistent with business objectives. The engineer will also serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on VMWare, Hyper-V, and Azure, and must have hands on experience in the aforementioned technologies.
You will work in a fast-paced environment, and must have the ability to multitask while still providing exemplary service to clients. Candidate will provide L3 support for clients & IMS vendor when called upon and they will provide out of hours support if needed. They will work in an environment that fosters cross-training and voluntary knowledge transfer.
Qualified candidates will provide quality support with a high degree of customer satisfaction, technical expertise and timeliness. Support will be provided following a detailed ticketing system. Successful candidates must understand the importance of maintaining a 24x7 production environment. The ability to work well under pressure and handle stressful situations is a must. A good personality and excellent written and verbal communication are very important due to the amount of interaction with internal customers & IMS. Individuals must be able to work well with limited direction and supervision, be detail oriented, extremely organized, and self-motivated with sense of ownership in their area of responsibility.
Key Responsibilities:
· Support/Maintain all aspects of Cree Physical/Virtual/Cloud server environments worldwide (provide L3 support)
· Monitor existing systems to ensure integrity
· Escalate or route tickets to appropriate groups as needed in support of systems and ensure SLA’s are met for financial and mission critical systems
· Triage, troubleshooting, and resolution of server systems including, software, OS, and network related issues pulling in other groups where needed
· Detailed documentation of tickets including symptoms, causes, and root cause resolutions
· Communication with internal customers and team members
Required:
· 6+ years’ experience system engineering and IT support
· Strong troubleshooting and problem solving capabilities
· System Administration of VMWare & Hyper-V at an enterprise level
· Strong understanding of backup and disaster recovery systems and methodologies
· Ability to support a wide array of IT services
· Ability to quickly learn various IT tools and systems available
· Working knowledge of Windows Server 2008/2012/2016/ADFS/Azure
· Ability to prioritize based on criticality and urgency of an issue
· Previous support experience in a corporate environment in excess of 1000 employees
· Excellent attendance and reliability
· Ability to lift up to 50lbs
Preferred:
· Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Engineering or related field
· MCSA: Windows Server 2008/2012/2016
· MCSE: Server Infrastructure
· MCSE: Cloud Platform and Infrastructure
· ITIL Certification
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Wolfspeed, Cree’s company (WS) is seeking a Financial Analyst within our RF Finance team at our Morgan Hill site in North California. This Financial Analyst position will perform a variety of duties, primarily focused on cost analysis, budgeting and forecasting activities for Global WS Back End Operation. This role also includes the related financial reporting responsibilities for Cree’s RF Business Units and those internal client service protocols associated with those responsibilities.
What can Cree do for you?
- Opportunity to be a key contributor from the ground up
- Invaluable experience with an innovation leader, poised for success
- Potential for upward mobility in a thriving organization
- High visibility in $1+ billion company
What can you do for Cree?
- Support the Global WS Back End Operation Controller on BE and Opex controlling activities.
- Responsible for monthly general ledger accounting and reconciliation, financial reporting and analysis for assigned functional areas.
- Perform monthly balance sheet, income statement and changes in financial position/budget variance analysis.
- Provide timely, relevant and accurate reporting & analysis of the results of the department’s performance against historical, budgeted, forecasted and strategic planning results to facilitate decision-making toward the achievement of the budget and strategic plan.
- Investigate and report to the Manager any inconsistencies or improprieties.
- Analyze data to ensure proper accounting procedures have been followed.
- Assist with the new business process and working with Finance and Business Managers.
- Maintain and develop various financial models and standard templates distributed for use by all of Finance during the planning processes, ensuring quality, accuracy and focused analytic review.
- Train new employees and ensure training material/documentation is kept current.
- Demonstrate appropriate understanding / working knowledge of accounting principles and internal controls, and apply them.
- Understand and facilitate the integration of business processes, people, and relevant technology, in order to identify, configure, and communicate useful information and to provide practical business leadership to drive business decision making across the company. Research and resolve Business Unit(s) inquiries for business partners.
- Demonstrate insightful use of financial analysis techniques, tools, and concepts, to provide practical counsel to business partners and management in order to drive business results.
- Responsible for performing special projects to improve process efficiency and performance Projects as assigned by Management.
- Prepare financial reports, charts, tables and other exhibits as requested.
- Identify nonvalue-added processes within the department and seeks solutions.
What you need for success:
- BS/BA degree in Finance or Accounting
- Thorough understanding of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). Knowledge of Statutory accounting principles.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills
- Strong organizational skills and attention to details
- Maturity, professionalism, and high level of discretion
- Knowledge of procedural controls and data validation techniques
- Strong work ethic with a positive, can-do attitude & Hands on mentality
- Independent worker and analytical thinker with ability to conduct research, data analysis and resolve complex problems
- Ability to multi-task and work in a challenging fast paced environment
- 5+ years of experience in Finance & Accounting roles in a semiconductor or high tech environment
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Good interpersonal skills and intercultural competency
Highly preferred skills and certifications:
- MS degree in Finance or Accounting
- CPA or CMA
- Experience with Oracle
- Cost accounting and/or experience in a manufacturing environment
- Subcontractor Controlling experience a plus
- Financial modeling expertise a plus
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Job Summary
Wolfspeed is one of the world’s leading suppliers of gallium nitride (GaN) wafers and devices for RF cellular communications, radar, and electronic warfare. Our business is growing rapidly and needs a RF Power Amplifier Design Engineer for our Product Development team in Morgan Hill, CA. The primary focus of this role is the design, test, and evaluation of cutting edge products using GaN HEMT and Si-LDMOS technologies.
What can we do for you?
- Continue the acceleration of GaN adoption across the wireless frequency spectrum.
- Be a key member in a vertical integrated GaN/Si-LDMOS company joining the RF product development team.
- Work for a small team (you will not be a “number” here!), but nor is this a startup. This is a world class, winning organization with a nimble footprint.
- Be a part of a strong technical team that values agility, contribution, and enjoying work
What can you do for us?
- Design packaged devices using LDMOS and GaN technologies for Cellular Infrastructure class-AB and Doherty Amplifiers
- Design of product evaluation and reference designs to highlight product performance
- Use circuit modeling techniques including harmonic balance and planar electromagnetic simulation to ensure first pass design success
- Perform device testing and evaluation including s-parameters and large signal load pull characterization
- Generate test fixture, device, and assembly drawings and other process documentation
- Participate in planning and technical risk mitigation
- Work with Manufacturing and Operations to insure design for manufacturing and high yields
What you need for success?
- BS, MS or PhD with RF and PA experience
- New PhD graduates with strong background in the area of RF/microwave PA modeling/design will be considered
- Good understanding of RF power amplifier load line and operation of class theories
- Proficient in RF matching networks theory and design
- Proficient with ADS/AWR non-linear simulation tools and 2.5 and 3D EM simulation software
- Experience with standard RF lab equipment (signal generators, power meters, spectrum analyzers, etc..)
- Programming experience in Matlab, Python, and/or C
- Ability to work within schedule restraints
- Excellent communication and team skills
Prefered
- Strong background in the area of RF/microwave PA design/modeling
- Understanding and experience with load-pull system
- Familiar with GaN technology
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Position Title: IT Solution Delivery Leader – Information Management & Analytics
Job Summary:
This position, as a key member of the Cree IT Solution Delivery Leadership Team, provides strategic leadership and management. This includes the development and implementation of short and long term strategies, development and compliance with policies, procedures, managing and optimizing IT assets, fostering a transformational/continuous improvement environment, and development of IT personnel. Leads development of Cree’s long-term systems requirements and any hardware/software designs required to accomplish business objectives and support company growth. Also contributes actively as a member of the Cree IT Solution Delivery LT to the overall development and delivery of IT capabilities required to support business growth and provide a competitive advantage through the use of technology to Cree.
This position is the Information Management & Analytics go-to contact for all IT improvements and enablement of business process improvements for the Divisions and Functions across Cree, reporting to the Solution Delivery Team Leader. This position fosters IT’s accountability with a focus on the alignment of the above teams’ strategies and objectives with overall Cree IT objectives. This position will be held accountable for the training, education, and execution of systems solutions with the goal to fully utilize their capabilities.
What can Cree do for you?
- Provide a high visibility role focusing on transformational leadership.
- Showcase your skills at the global enterprise level.
- Provide career growth opportunities within a thriving organization.
What can you do for Cree?
- Provide overall direction, development and integration of Information Management & Analytics for the Cree business
- Works with the Functions and Divisions to understand business strategy and define business requirements
- Ensures integration of processes and IT solutions across Cree
- Builds IT solutions to meet the needs of Cree in the area of:
- Information Management & Analytics
- Master Data Management
- Information Architecture
- Enterprise Data Warehouse
- Self Service Visualization
- Big Data (structure/non structured)
- Leads/manage delivery of projects/solutions on time, within budget and to customer expectations
- Assist in design and delivery of infrastructure required to support new IT solutions
- Ensure adherence to IT Architecture principles and guidelines
- Ensure optimal application performance, maintainability and supportability of the infrastructure
- Part of Cree IT Solution Delivery IT Leadership Team strategic transformation efforts
- Cree transformation
- Facilitate cross Business/Functional integration opportunities
- Represent Functional uniqueness requirements
- IT Capability Plan
- Organizational and competency development
- IT process implementations
- Application standardization, rationalization and optimization
- Business Technology Roadmap
What you need for success?
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science/Information Management or related field. Advanced degree preferred.
- IT management experience in a strong manufacturing environment demonstrating a proven project and process management skill set.
- Strong problem solving and decision making skills with excellent written and verbal communications skills.
- 10 plus years of progressive Information Management and IT experience with at least 3 years in a Senior Information Management role within a $2.0B - $5.0B Global Business.
- Ability and desire to engage with all functions of the Enterprise to understand and articulate the business requirements as well as the IT capabilities and requirements.
- General knowledge of all IT disciplines and technology platforms.
- Knowledge of standards and methodology of Project Management Professional (PMP).
- Management experience with a proven track record of leading a team across a variety of diverse locations. (Remote/virtual management).
- Ability to work within a 24/7 environment across multiple time zones
- Demonstrated broad knowledge of major aspects of IT operations, including project management, systems development, systems analysis and design, and budget administration; with broad exposure and practical experience in IT management.
- Considerable knowledge of business theory, business processes, management, budgeting, and business office operations.
- Proven experience in IT application, data, mobility, digital, information and infrastructure planning/development.
- Experienced in use of Tableau data visualization or equivalent and data warehouse technologies such as OBIEE and Oracle EDW
- Experienced implementing cloud-based solutions
- Strong experiences within implementation of Digital and Information Management solutions
Highly preferred skills and certifications:
- Experience with manufacturing, ideally in the Industrial Electronics and Electrical Equipment industry
- Result oriented and customer focused.
- Highly motivated.
- Ability to execute.
- Problem analysis and problem resolution at both a strategic and functional level.
- Strategy and planning: an ability to think and plan over a 12-36 month time span.
- Excellent organizational and time management skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate to both business and technical individuals.
- Ability to influence and lead change.
- Strong negotiating skills.
- Proven ability to deliver despite obstacles.
- Demonstrates Trustworthiness
- Excellent Listener & Communicator
- Knowledgeable of Business and Technology Operations, Processes, and Initiatives
- Builds and Retains Relationships with Business and Technology Colleagues
- Acts as a Salesperson for Business Needs and Technology Requirements
- Shows Consistent and Appropriate Responsiveness to both Urgent and Non-Critical Matters
- Possesses People Networking Abilities
- Domestic/Global travel less than 5%
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Position: Facilities Move Management and Space Planning
Position Summary:
Assumes responsibility for planning, developing, establishing and controlling methods, procedures, and systems designed to increase overall effectiveness of facility and space utilization and space management. Performs all duties in full support of the CREE brand, understanding that the positive and effective execution of these duties is instrumental to CREE’s culture and workplace environment.
Key Responsibilities:
· Represents Cree as the key point of contact for all Moves Adds and Changes. Responsible for managing the day-to-day customer requests for furniture changes and relocation services for multiple campuses. Assess required furniture components necessary to design/redesign spaces in a corporate office environment. Develops and manages the installation schedule for multiple furniture installation vendors. Manages the inventory of Cree furniture assets. Assumes responsibility for employee space data assessment and input, as well as assisting with maintenance and updating of software, data and licenses. Assigns and classifies space according to applicable standards and procedures. Consistent with established guidelines and/or applicable, develops and plans space survey methodologies.
· Assists in the development, implementation and oversight of short and long-term goals designed to effectively utilize space on campus. Analyzes potential space use changes through software driven scenario planning. Provides pertinent space use planning information to campus planners and/or department managers. Conducts studies, researches and compiles data used for campus planning. Develops appropriate reports and presentations.
· Oversees the planning of projects involving small and large group moves. Assists in the management, planning and coordination of appropriate space change initiatives and projects across campus. Directs consultants as required to develop space change plans and improvements as necessary and appropriate. Provides move management for occupants affected by new construction, renovation or space use changes. Assists in organizing and overseeing all building and site data including plans, drawings, specifications and construction documents.
· Establishes, cultivates and maintains effective working relationships with various internal and external customers. Represents the department on various internal and external meetings as necessary and appropriate. Participates in campus space planning, campus master planning, and capital improvement planning processes as assigned.
· Assists in the development and dissemination of space standards and space management guidelines, policies and procedures. Develops and maintains procedures for reporting space changes and implements updates as necessary.
- Assists in the development and execution of Move Management standards for non-manufacturing facilities. Build and maintain strong product and vendor knowledge to stay current with Cree Furniture Standards. Collaborate both conceptually and graphically with various internal department to meet the esthetic requirement of the company brand.
· Assumes responsibility for the understanding of and adherence to all applicable facilities
and space related federal, state and local regulations, including ADA compliance, as well as CREE’s policies and procedures. Coordinates and communicates the impact of space
activities to appropriate CREE personnel.
Working Conditions:
- Normal office situation
- Requires intermittent travel, including overnight stays
- High dust, dirt environment
- Works on elevated surfaces
- Works on slippery or uneven surfaces
Physical Effort:
- Typically sitting at desk or table
- Typically standing and/or walking
- Intermittently sitting, standing, stooping
- Climbing ladders or scaffolds
- Moderate lifting or carrying up to 50 lbs.
Key Job Requirements:
- Work experience 3-5 years.
- Four-year college degree or a high level vocational skill demonstrated by a number of years of on-the-job experience.
- Ability to make recommendations or decisions which usually affect the assigned department, but may at time affect operations, services, individuals, or activities or other others outside of the assigned department.
- Analytical- Work is nonstandard and widely varied requiring the interpretation and application of substantial variety of procedures, policies, and/or precedents used in combination. Frequently the application of multiple technical activities is required, therefore, analytical ability and inductive thinking are required.
- Requires regular contact with internal persons of importance and influence involving considerable tact, discretion, and persuasion in obtaining cooperation of others.
- Requires handling of delicate/sensitive relationships and complex situations.
- The ability to work effectively with diverse groups.
- College degree preferred (Interior Design, Architecture or related field) but not required with at least 3 years experience in a corporate environment.
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Financial System Administrator
Cree is seeking a Financial Systems Analyst to be responsible for managing the Cree financial system, ensuring the end user is using the system effectively, and assisting the Financial System Manager in preparing financial information at a consolidated level. This role requires proficiency in requirements analysis, solution design, report rationalization and build, excellent knowledge of Financial Systems, such as Hyperion product suite and ETL tools such as ODI.
Job Responsibilities:
- Manage metadata by adding and importing dimensions and members
- Set up security for users, groups, and members
- Create and customize forms, menus, and task lists
- Migrate application artifacts
- Set up and test business rules
- Manage quarterly budget cycle lock and open the new budget cycles
- Refresh Database, monitor Hyperion system usage, and troubleshoot as needed
- Proactively improve, advance, or simplify data gathering, reporting and analytics
- Create calculation scripts and build rules files
- Load data using variety of methods
- Load data into the database and analyze data with Smart View
- Timely and effectively enhance, implement, and maintain current reports, processes, and analytical tools in line with leadership priority
- Proactively identifies and effectively assesses improvement opportunities (productivity/efficiency gains, cost savings, etc.)
- Participates in solution testing efforts by developing test plans, preparing test environments, coordinating the test execution, and validating test results
- Performs application configuration (i.e. data mapping, cube design, ETL design) in support of solution delivery initiatives
- Partners with business and other systems analysts in agile design for data flow to EPM systems
- Provide support to existing implementations and identify and develop improvements.
- Leverages subject matter system and process expertise in analyzing and troubleshooting complex system/user issues to drive resolution and determine root cause
- Effectively coordinates and communicates issues resolution with end-users
- Develops end user training documentation
What you need for success:
- Bachelor’s Degree in MIS, Finance, Accounting or related field required
- Basic experience with cube design
- Understanding of financial processes to resolve business problems and translate to technology solutions
- Basic reporting skills such as report development
- Analytical, troubleshooting and problem-solving skills preferred
- Ability to define and execute appropriate test scenarios to validate system solutions
- Basic knowledge of effective testing practices and methodologies
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We have a job vacancy for an Industrial Facilities Wastewater Technician. Candidate must perform a high degree of problem identification and troubleshooting with virtually no supervision and participate effectively in a team environment.
What can Cree do for you?
- This role will provide you experience working to support a high-tech manufacturing facility.
- You will have the opportunity to gain diversified experience working on multiple projects.
- You will have opportunity to expand knowledge, skills, and abilities.
What you need for success:
- Water or wastewater experience is a must, preferably in a manufacturing environment.
- Knowledge or experience in the following areas: plumbing, pump repair, plant operations and maintenance.
- Must be self-motivated and willing to learn.
- Perform calibrations and validations of sensors including pH and conductivity meters.
- Preferred experience given to candidates familiar with high purity water systems (RODI, EDI, UVs, TOC analyzers, and filtration).
- A minimum of 2 years (with a preference for 3-5 years) of experience as a technician performing electrical, HVAC, or mechanical maintenance.
Other Requirements:
- Ability to organize work and meet deadlines.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
- Ability to accurately add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
- Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals
Additional Information:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
- Ability to work in a noisy, dusty, industrial/manufacturing environment, and exposed to non-toxic fumes, gases, chemicals, grease and oils.
- Ability to work with machinery and moving parts.
- Ability to operate motor vehicles.
- Ability to work with moving vehicles, ladders, and scaffolding.
- Ability to work at heights, and in confined spaces.
- Ability to properly lift/carry/push/pull/manipulate/transport up to 25 lbs.
- Ability to occasionally lift up to 50 lbs., frequently lift up to 40 lbs., and consistently lift up to 25 lbs.
- Ability to work in a non-climate controlled environment.
- Ability to work in repetitive motions and pressure involving fingers, hands, and wrists.
- The work requires some physical exertion such as long periods of standing or walking over hard concrete surface.
- Exposure to recurring bending, crouching, stooping, kneeling, sitting, climbing, stretching, or similar activities.
- Ability to reach at high levels.
- Ability to read, write, speak and communicate in the English language.
- Must have the physical strength and ability to frequently work more than 40 hours weekly.
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Position Summary:
This position is to be a part of the Cree Facilities Project Management group overseeing commercial and interior fit-ups on multiple Cree campuses. This position includes a high level of collaboration with various consultants, Cree employees and contractor personnel and assumes responsibility for planning, developing, establishing and controlling methods and procedures for interior construction to increase overall effectiveness of Cree, Inc. facilities. This individual shall complete their duties in full support of the CREE brand, understanding that the positive and effective execution of these duties is instrumental to CREE’s culture and workplace environment.
Responsibilities:
As Commercial Projects Project Manager, represent Cree as the key point of contact for interior construction projects. Simultaneously execute and manage multiple renovation and interior fit-up projects. Partner with Cree Space Planner to define client needs and complete programming. Manage vendor and subcontractor procurement/ selection, conflict resolution, bidding, budgeting and the development of customer relationships. Knowledge of project controls, including information reporting, change order management, and process management are applied in day-to-day operations. Strong communication skills to all constituents and operating with a sense of urgency is a key success factor for this position. Project Managers are responsible for managing the entire construction process from pre-construction through to project close out, ensuring projects are delivered on time and on budget. Project execution strategies used at Cree that this role will fill include working as an Owner’s Representative overseeing a general contractor or working as the general contractor overseeing multiple trade contractors. This is dependent on project size and/or complexity. Project sizes will range from several hundred dollars to several hundreds of thousand dollars.
Minimum Requirements:
- Can to travel up to 20% of the time
- Have worked in the commercial construction industry for a minimum of 5 years
- Can review and interpret construction plans and specifications
- Experience with MS Project
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Job Summary
This position in the LED Products Pilot Line group will be responsible for developing high power LED assembly processes that result in rapid time to market of new products.
What can Cree do for you?
- You will have the opportunity to gain diversified development experience working on multiple projects
- Ability to directly work and assist in developing our next generation of LED products
- Potential for upward mobility in a thriving organization
- High visibility role
What can you do for Cree?
- Learn and perform tasks related to the mechanical assembly, optical and electrical testing, and characterization of LEDs.
- Execute electrical, mechanical and photonic experiments to aid product development team in next generation packaged LED solutions.
- Collect data, analyze results, and issue recommendations.
- Understand complete assembly process flow for product line. Must have the ability to communicate procedures for tool sets and can use observation skills to make adjustments on tools.
- Responsible for creating documentation for new procedures and work instructions after process development is completed.
- Provide support to team members to investigate/resolve processing issues and suggest solutions to prevent future occurrence
- Support equipment engineering on tool troubleshooting and preventative maintenance.
What you need for success:
- Experience working on an automated assembly line
- Candidate must be a US Citizen or Permanent Resident
- Ability to conduct multiple tasks required
- MS Word, MS Excel, and MS Access experience required
- Good communication skills required, both written and oral
- Must be able to follow detailed instructions
- Must have excellent hand-eye coordination.
- Excellent mechanical aptitude.
Highly preferred skills and certifications:
- AS degree desired
- Knowledge of photonic systems (e.g. spectrometers, photonic measurements and LED metrology) desired
- Knowledge in die attach, wire bond, and encapsulation processes
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Responsible for selling the company's Lighting products, developing new accounts and expanding existing accounts. Manage and grow existing accounts as well as prospecting for new accounts
Effectively communicate/present the Cree Lighting Value Proposition and leverage it to create a competitive advantage
Conduct in field market research and provide well thought out new product ideas including target market, necessary listings, suggested price points and anticipated sales forecast
Assess, Drive and Influence the Specification on the Products in the projects field identifying and influencing the key actors in the life time of the project (Projects Manager, Esco Manager, Facilities Manager, Installers and Distributors)
Articulate and manage customer needs and issues to internal management and staff and conversely represent CREE management opinions professionally and with best possible outcome
Take responsibility/ownership for meeting account needs including returns, inventory, Integration opportunities, credit, and special pricing requirements
Provide competitive intelligence on product lines, pricing, new products, customer ownership status and other activities as available
Understand the level of customer satisfaction with Cree technical support and drive continuous improvement in customer satisfaction while meeting Cree’s business needs
Utilize Microsoft Office software, such as Word, Excel and the Internet to obtain any pertinent information regarding customer request and in preparation of any Company forms e.g. expense reports and sale call reports
Work with other managers and marketing personnel across the Lighting business unit to continuously upgrade the customer solutions process
Maintain a new business pipeline and relentlessly pursue opportunities to broaden our markets
Meet and exceed Cree Lighting revenue targets
Forecasting
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Cree is in search of an experienced HR Generalist who will be responsible for applying business knowledge and human resources expertise with an internal customer group. He or she will assist in providing a wide range of HR support. The successful candidate will play a key role in the success of the organization by offering guidance on employee relations, performance management, terminations, recruitment, and HR best practices while facilitating a positive relationship between employees and leadership.
Specific responsibilities include:
- In collaboration with an HR Business Partner, support the HR Department’s mission to create opportunities for employees to experience Great Jobs, Great Bosses and Great Rewards
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with employees and managers at all levels
- Provide guidance and coaching to supervisors and employees, using our Values (see below) and referencing company practice and policies as applicable
- Develop and maintain expertise of Cree’s Human Resources programs and initiatives for the purpose of supporting managers and employees
- Support the HR department in informing, communicating, supporting and/or implementing programs in partnership with Talent Development, Recruiting, Compensation, Benefits and HRIS teams
- Identify ways to improve company policies and procedures to improve the employee experience
- Participate in teams and on projects as requested
Requirements and characteristics of success:
- 3-5 years of work experience in human resources
- 4-year degree
- Previous exposure to international HR
- Demonstrates exceptional people skills, including conflict resolution, coaching and negotiation abilities; exceptional listening skills
- Experience accessing, compiling, and leveraging data and metrics. Proven technical proficiency with Microsoft Excel
- Ability to collaborate with a diverse set of thinking styles and approaches
- Passion for working in a team environment; shows resiliency and a sense of humor
- Appreciation and support of diversity of thought, experiences and backgrounds
- Ability to maintain confidentiality of proprietary and sensitive information
Cree Values:
Integrity and Respect
We always act with integrity and respect for our people, workplace and community. Relationships matter. We value everyone’s contribution and an environment of spirited and open debate. We do the right thing, and we say, “Thank You.”
Ingenuity and Passion
Our passion for making the world better through innovation means we take risks and question conventional thinking, developing new technologies and ways of doing business – leading the way, every single day. We do what others say can’t be done.
Ownership and Accountability
We are accountable to each other and committed to the highest standards of work and behavior. We succeed or fail together.
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Cree Semiconductor Quality division is seeking a proven, hands-on Director of Customer Quality Engineering to proactively lead the Customer Quality function across our LED and Wolfspeed-Power business units. To be successful, this person will be a driven, self motivated leader who can create a system, organization and culture that is adept at continual improvement across multiple business functions and geographies while maintaining strong customer focus and interaction.
This position is located in our headquarters in Durham, NC.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Provide strategic direction and leadership to the LED and Wolfspeed Power Products business teams to support customer quality objectives across automotive, industrial, and commercial markets
- Align key business operations and quality metrics to enable new business growth and improved quality performance.
- Provide global support for markets in North America, Europe, Asia, and Japan.
- Engagement with customers to understand, meet, and exceed their expectations from new product development through sustaining activities.
- Ensure an ISO/TS 16949 compliant quality management system (QMS) is implemented and maintained for the business teams, is effective and continually improving.
- Lead the business unit level Management Review of the QMS to verify compliance to the documented systems, and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Oversee a team of customer quality engineers and technicians to support the business and customer quality objectives to include new product development, ppm, customer returns and cycletime, 8D reports and scoring, problem solving techniques, PPAPs, as well as customer engagement and communication.
- Engagement in new product development to ensure quality is built in from the grounds up and assess potential risks.
- Establish quality talent pipeline and develop robust succession plans.
- Provide annual budget for the LED and Wolfspeed Power Products quality team.
Requirements:
- A Bachelor’s degree from four-year college or university in Engineering or other technical discipline. A Masters Degree is a plus
- 5+ years of customer quality management in a high volume semiconductor environment.
- Extensive knowledge and experience with automotive and other large customer bases to include customer satisfaction expectations, quality systems, and continual improvement methods
- The ability to operate in a fast pace, highly dynamic environment, at a detailed execution level, as well as on a tactical/strategic level.
- Demonstrated capability of interacting with senior leaders through the organization and maintaining credibility and collaboration between the quality function and other business functions.
- Ability to work in large, complex, global environment.
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Summary:
In this position within Wolfspeed’s Power Device R&D department, you will be leading device design projects for next-generation silicon carbide SiC power MOSFETs, JBS diodes and high voltage IGBTs. You will be participating in all aspects of silicon carbide power device development, with an emphasis on device design and modeling efforts. You will interact with key customers as well as colleagues from Process Development, Test and Validation, and New Product Introduction to master understanding of the full product life cycle of the new technologies.
Responsibilities include:
- Lead development efforts in next generation Silicon Carbide power devices.
- Lead design efforts in Silicon Carbide power devices using FEM based simulators.
- Develop and specify appropriate structures, characterize and extract parameters from fabricated devices, and feedback for improved device modeling.
- Interact with power electronics applications group and fabrication process development group and produce device designs with optimal characteristics.
- Analyze characteristics of current products and provide better physical understanding
- Prepare technical presentations and papers for internal meetings, as well as conferences and journals.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Applied Physics, or closely related area
- Strong understanding in semiconductor device physics
- Strong understanding of power semiconductor devices
- Experience in semiconductor device simulators (Silvaco, SYNOPSYS)
- Understanding of semiconductor device characterization methods
- Design of experiments and data interpretation skills
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communications/presentations skills
Preferred Qualifications:
- 2 years of industrial experience in Silicon or Silicon Carbide power devices
- Understanding of semiconductor fabrication processes and process integration
- Understanding of power electronic circuits
- Understanding of analog electronic circuits
- Understanding of circuit simulations (SPICE)
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Cree is looking for a self-motivated, hands-on engineer to design, develop, and execute custom integrated hardware/software solutions for the testing of LEDs and other semiconductors. You will work with a team of scientists, engineers, and technicians to develop new tools and processes to support development and manufacturing of LED-based lighting products in a rapidly expanding business. The successful candidate will be a resourceful, hands-on, problem solver with the capacity to quickly grasp and resolve a wide range technical problems while, at the same time, managing one or more development projects.
What can we do for you?
Cree is offering an opportunity to join the components LED Test Engineering team. In this full-time position, you will learn how to design and implement solutions in a high-volume manufacturing environment on an international stage. You will experience critical and meaningful engineering problem solving where your decisions and ideas will directly translate into real world solutions. In addition to working alongside experienced engineers and scientist in the field of LED and semiconductor manufacturing, you will also be exposed to real world practice of measurement theory, semiconductor design, electrical testing and spectrophotography.
What can you do for Cree?
- Provide integrated hardware/software systems for manufacturing, assembly, and measurement of LED chips and LED-based packaged devices.
- Write software to interface with and control a diverse set of tools and instruments such as sorters, pick and place machines, probers, oscilloscopes, source meters, spectrometers, robots, and power supplies
- Design and develop applications with intuitive user interfaces that perform according to customer specifications using VB.Net, C#, SQL Server, MS Access, etc.
- Support product transfers from development to production which may require 2nd shift working hours to resolve out of country manufacturing problems.
- Provide training to other personnel where appropriate to improve over-all capabilities of the team.
Minimum Qualifications:
- BS or MS in Engineering (electrical, mechanical, software) or Applied Sciences (Physics, Chemistry) required.
- Knowledge of database administration (design, installation, and troubleshooting) of MS SQL Server 2000 & 2005, MySQL, MS Access, etc.
- Extensive PC and software user skills as well as PC based programming skills using high level languages and environments such as C++, Visual Basic (.NET), and Python.
- Willing and open to travel, both domestic and international
- Self-starter with strong personal work ethic. Must have a "whatever it takes" attitude.
- Resourceful, hands-on, problem solving individual with initiative and drive to work around technical obstacles.
- Able to focus on real, practical solutions with maximum benefit, even when the solutions are ‘mundane’
- Able to manage multiple projects with minimal guidance.
- Able to make individual contributions while staying focused on the goals of the group.
- Able to summarize findings quickly and accurately to support 24x7 development effort.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong attention to details.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in high volume manufacturing and statistical process control.
- Experience with JMP or other statistical analysis software.
- GPIB, RS-232, TCP/IP, DAQ and other interface/communication experience.
- 2+ years of relevant experience from one of the following disciplines: LED component or module production (pick and place, sorting, inspection, etc.), test and measurement, high volume process monitoring.
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The Director, Product Marketing Aerospace and Defense is responsible for the strategic direction of Wolfspeed’s Aerospace and Defense component product line. Primary responsibility is to drive product strategy and segment alignment for forward looking growth within Wolfspeed’s market-leading portfolio of gallium nitride (GaN) HEMTs and MMICs.
What can our Company do for you?
Gallium Nitride RF technology is the future for Wolfspeed’s RF portfolio and the next generation for Design Engineers looking to convert their silicon or gallium arsenide-based power amplifier systems to the smaller, more efficient systems enabled by GaN. You will be part of a fast-growing semiconductor business. You will be part of a world class team to drive continued success in our core markets and help shape the future of power RF. This is a highly visible position in a strategic product field. You will have the opportunity to work with the most advanced technologies in the RF industry and have a significant impact in the next product platform innovations that are introduced into the market. The position interacts directly with the power amplifier design companies in the industry and our product development engineers, operations personnel and commercial sales to deliver the right products that customers are looking for.
What can you do for our Company?
- Identify market needs and applications and develop strategic marketing plans and forecasts to achieve corporate goals and objectives
- Develop and manage marketing operating budgets and associated business plans
- Provide product development feedback and development guidance based on voice of customer
- Work in conjunction with corporate communications, channel marketing, and product marketing to develop marketing campaigns, promotional activities, and associated marketing collateral
- Partner with our corporate sales team to grow both our direct and distribution sales channels via management of design registrations, ship & debits, channel inventory and pricing
- Develop and execute product strategy and roadmaps including product positioning and overall price book responsibility
- Oversee and evaluate market research and competitive analysis to support business planning activities and adjust marketing strategy as necessary
- Establish and maintain relationships with key strategic partners to facilitate accelerated segment growth
What you need for success:
- Must be a U.S. Citizen or Green card holder
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or similar technical engineering
- 10+ years Mil Aero RF product marketing experience or similar technical sales
- Understanding of Mil Aero systems, applications and supporting power transistor/amplifier requirements
- A proven leader with the experience and ability to work with and influence cross-functional teams
- Strong verbal, written & presentation communications skills
- Willingness to travel, including internationally as necessary
Highly preferred skills and certifications:
- Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering and/or MBA
- 3+ years RF amplifier circuit design or similar RF applications experience
- 3+ years’ experience in Channel Marketing
- Extensive experience supporting customers, direct sales and distribution sales partners
- Extensive experience with new product launch and new business development
- Experience and use of Salesforce.com and Oracle