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Wolfspeed is a growing part of Cree and our Global Operations team. Wolfspeed is creating a newly organized team responsible for managing factory controls, there is an open position as lead of Defect and Metrology engineering. This role will be the head of this newly formed team.
What can Cree do for you?
Be instrumental in helping to shape the methods, tools, and mindset for data-driven defect reduction and inline product validation in the RF and Power Wafer Fab
- Provide a management opportunity, responsible for the professional development of experienced metrology and defect engineers
- Located in the thriving Research Triangle region of North Carolina, including locations that have been named best place to live in the entire U.S.
- Potential for future mobility within a strong-growth oriented company and a technology leader in Power and RF devices
- Work directly with technology directly contributing to the future of transportation, energy, and communications
- Be a part of a strong technical team that values agility, contribution, and enjoying work
What can you do for Cree?
- Support, manage, and develop a team of defectivity and metrology engineers
- Learn and maintain direct, hands-on knowledge of the process, equipment, and technology by self-guided training and in-fab experience
- Oversee efforts to provide optimized measurement, including sample rates, of inline product balancing factors including yield opportunities, capacity, research, development, high-volume manufacturing, manual operations, measurement equipment capabilities, and line process and equipment control
- Organize and drive cross-functional teams in key defect reduction efforts
- Drive general best-practices for managing defectivity and measurements throughout process, equipment, and yield engineering
- Participate in supplier relations for fab software and equipment
What you need for success:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in an engineering or science curriculum
- 10+ years of semiconductor manufacturing experience
- In-depth understanding of Defectivity and Films Metrology, and Fab Inline Defectivity management
- General working knowledge of Photolithography, Etch, Deposition, Diffusion, Implant, thinning and thermal processing
- Working knowledge of both Power & RF devices
- Working knowledge of SPC, OCAPs and inline monitoring of both electrical performance and defect monitoring
- Must be a team player and have a whatever it takes approach
- Must have a positive, professional, energetic, can-do attitude
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Candidate must be a US Citizen or Green Card holder
Highly preferred skills and certifications:
- 2+ years managing either Metrology or Defectivity teams in a leading-edge semiconductor fab
- 5+ years with direct manager experience, with a track record or successful hiring, and both team and individual management
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Wolfspeed, A Cree Company, is seeking a Machine Learning Systems Scientist to perform research and development on computer vision and data driven systems for Silicon Carbide substrate material and their associated process inputs as well as subsequent metrologies for supporting materials substrate production.
What can Wolfspeed do for you?
- Wolfspeed is a fast-paced environment, in which we are leading development in the next generation of electronic devices and the materials that support them.
- You will work with truly unique datasets to solve problems that have an impact on global energy consumption and environmental preservation, while providing our customers with best-in-class technology that improves their bottom line.
- You will have the opportunity of working with a massively cross-disciplinary group encompassing almost all physical sciences, which can be leveraged to accomplish your goals.
- You will have access to professional and technical growth opportunities in the rapidly expanding Silicon Carbide Power Semiconductor market.
What can you do for Wolfspeed?
- Design machine learning systems, datasets and analytics to aid in interpretation of manufacturing results and define future directions for process development.
- Design computer vision architectures to extract numerical data from images that can interface with machine learning systems
- Build support interfaces to integrate manufacturing and research data into information processing systems
- Collaborate with Research and Development groups to disseminate information for critical manufacturing decisions, as well as to rapidly integrate new measurements into the decision-making path
- Integrate multiple disparate data sources into a single container for informatics
- Design, build and support databases and analytic capabilities for R&D developed processes
- Be a liaison between the Materials R&D group and Cree IT to accelerate software and hardware decisions, as well as purchasing equipment to support computational efforts
What you need for success:
- PhD or MS with equivalent years of industry experience in programming, databases and software integration
- Physical Sciences/ Engineering/ Mathematics degree preferred, with strong background in Computer Science/ Engineering
- Python development skills
- Demonstrated experience with convolutional neural networks and modern machine learning methods
- Experience with machine vision or image processing algorithms
- Good verbal, written and personal communication skills
Highly preferred skills and certifications:
- 5 years of experience in programming, databases and software integration
- Advanced computer programming experience, with abilities in systems design, C++, C#, .NET, SQL preferred, open source software and builds
- Experience in Big Data tools and analysis
- Experience in industrial machine vision systems
- Up to date knowledge of high performance computing systems, parallel processing and GPU computing
- Experience with integration of hardware and software systems
- Adept with the use of statistical methods and programs (for example, Matlab SPSS or JMP) of data analysis to uncover small but significant trends in key parameters
- Comfortable making presentations to large groups when needed
- Experience in Finite Element Analysis modeling and simulation.
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Cree’s Materials Business is seeking a high potential, resourceful, hands-on, problem solving Process Engineer with the capacity to quickly grasp and resolve a wide range of technical challenges. The ideal candidate will thrive in a fast paced, deadline-oriented manufacturing environment and work constructively with a team of manufacturing personnel, engineers and technicians. The candidate will be responsible for sustaining and improving processes to drive quality, yield, cost and through-put improvements in the Surface Prep area. This roll will also be responsible for leading a team of up to 8 Process technicians.
What can Cree do for you? (Why does this candidate want the job)
Cree is a fast-paced environment, in which we are leading the development in Silicon Carbide and LED technologies. This roll will allow you to work directly with all levels of this technology from Research and Development to operations. You will work with truly unique datasets to solve problems that have an impact on global energy consumption and environmental preservation, while creating best-in-class technology that improves Cree’s and our customers bottom line.
What can you do for Cree? (Job Responsibilities, Day to Day responsibilities)
- Own manufacturing processes for wafer preparation processes ensuring capable & in control:
- Define process control methods for detecting process variations. Including creation and monitoring appropriate process parameter control charts. Implement rapid containment measures for any “out of control” conditions to minimize the effect of process changes to customers. Investigate, resolve, and prevent future out of control occurrences.
- Development of process control metrics and corrective action plans for OOC conditions including setting up data collection, review, and presentation.
- Example processes include: Etch, Implant, Anneal, Oxidation, Defect inspection/analysis, metrology.
- Apply good engineering practices to continuously improve wafer preparation process:
- Define/refine methods to increase process repeatability and control to achieve higher yields, lower costs, higher flexibility, lower variation, and a safe work environment
- Manage & drive through projects to improve wafer quality and yield to exceed customer expectations.
- Work with R&D team to define, qualify, and transition processes from research through development to production. Receive new process/product introductions from R&D.
- Define & coordinate process changes by working with both exempt and non-exempt personnel to ensure repeatability and control.
- Must be able to work several projects simultaneously and have successfully demonstrated success in complete process ownership within a 24x7 manufacturing environment.
- Lead a team of up to 8 process technicians responsible for tool calibration, WIP management, and general manufacturing support
What you need for success: (Minimum qualifications-quantifiable qualifications)
- Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in an Engineering discipline (Materials Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Ceramics Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or Electrical Engineering).
- Ability to fully own a process, analyze data, and strive for continuous improvement.
- Excellent skills & experience in the Microsoft Office suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, JMP, Access).
- Solid computer skills, statistics foundation, & problem-solving skills required.
- High energy, self-motivated, positive, professional attitude is essential for success.
- Strong communication skills and an ability to interface effectively with different backgrounds and at every level of the organization.
- Strong attention to detail while effectively managing time and multiple priorities in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
- Strong SPC skill & experience.
- Willing and able to work extra as needed to achieve business goals. (some evenings and weekends are to be expected)
- Provide on-call support as needed to support a 24/7 manufacturing operation.
Highly preferred skills and certifications: (Preferred Qualifications, still quantifiable)
- 3+ year work experience in relevant field.
- Experience with the following: Etch, Implant, Anneal, Oxidation, Defect inspection/analysis, metrology.
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Wolfspeed is looking to add an Assembly Process Engineer to our team. This job opportunity is based in Morgan Hill, CA with our newly acquired LDMOS and GaN fab (formerly part of Infineon). You will be part of Wolfspeed’s RF-power packaging production group and supporting our Process/Equipment Engineering Group.
Due to ITAR Regulations, this role must be filled by a US Citizen or a Green Card holder.
What can Wolfspeed do for you?
- Potential for future mobility within a strong-growth oriented company and a technology leader in Power and RF devices
- Our company has a broad portfolio in growing markets, which provides good opportunities for stability and experience
- Be a part of a strong technical team that values agility, contribution, and enjoying work
- Work directly with technology directly contributing to the future of transportation, energy, and communications
What can you do for Wolfspeed?
- Work in process sustaining in the back end responsible for yield and efficiency improvement on either or both Die Attach and Wire bond process or any assembly process assigned by Management.
- Work in identifying process weaknesses, propose solution, drive project and follow through until completion/implementation with minimum supervision.
- Design, evaluate and qualify tools or jigs for use in production.
- Define and optimize critical process parameters through the employment of DoE.
- Lead Production, Equipment and QA Groups in solving line issues using the 8D methodology.
- Interface with R&D, package and process development in the qualification and ramp up of new packages, processes or materials in production.
- Implement cost saving projects in production.
- Guide technicians in the proper equipment repair/sustaining of wire bond machines.
- Lead projects with the aim of improving machine utilization through the use of MTBF/MTBA and downtime trend analysis methods.
- Employ engineering methods such as SPC, FMEA, Pareto Analysis, Control Charts, and Poka Yoke.
- Identify critical and non-critical spares for major equipment in production.
- Repair of machine downtime issues if needed.
- Generate or improve work instructions, operating instruction, machine set-up instructions used in production
What you need for success:
- Must be a US Citizen or a Green Card Holder due to ITAR regulations.
- Minimum BS degree in Mechanical, Electrical or Electromechanical Engineering, or relevant education.
- Has at least 5 years of experience in the field of Process or Equipment engineering, Package or Process Development or in Product Engineering in a high technology / high volume manufacturing environment.
- Hands on engineer, will work in front of the tool most of the time (at least 80%).
- Ability to provide good quality results under pressure and in a timely manner.
- Highly motivated and must be able to work with minimum supervision.
- Good analytical and problem solving, interpersonal, and communication skills.
- Familiar with FMEA, SPC, Pareto Analysis, Control Charts, Poka Yoke, 8D methodology and DoE.
- Familiar with back end manufacturing process such as Die Attach, Wire Bond, Forming, Seal, Laser mark, Tape and Reel
- Familiarity with programming languages or vision software programming a plus.
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Wolfspeed is a growing part of the Cree organization. The Wolfspeed Materials R&D team is looking for a high potential, resourceful, hands-on, problem solving Research Scientist with a good understanding of materials behavior and capacity to quickly grasp and solve technical challenges. A solid background in semiconductor materials with strong analytical and leadership skills are necessary to enable successful execution of both new process development and improvement of existing processes in a fast paced manufacturing environment.
What can Wolfspeed do for you?
- The world runs on power and our SiC wide bandgap semiconductors far outperform conventional silicon components and set new standards for efficiency and reliability
- Join the company that is a global leader in the manufacturing of 4H Silicon Carbide (SiC) substrates, SiC and III-Nitride epitaxial wafers.
- Be part of the team that has long proven expertise in SiC and GaN materials technology advancement with the focus and commitment to bring high quality solution platforms across all applications
What can you do for Wolfspeed?
- Lead research within the SiC applied scientific field that involves development and design work.
- Develop SiC processes that are well understood and manufacturable
- Implement innovative solutions to SiC technology problems and create opportunities to enhance technical methodology through expansion of existing or development of new efforts.
- Develop project plans, technical approaches, timelines and deliverables for assigned projects.
- Work on several projects, simultaneously and deliver results in complete ownership within a 24x7 manufacturing environment.
- Work to establish practices which include employees’ positive involvement with opportunity for constructive input and action.
- Establish accountability for problem solving both on a permanent and ad-hoc basis, depending on need.
What you need for success
- PhD in Applied Materials, Chemical, Ceramics or Physical Science with engineering degree
- Strong process understanding
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Independent thinking, attention to detail, strong organizational and planning abilities
- Statistical data analysis skills and experience
- Design of experiments and data interpretation skills
- Willingness to provide a “hands on” approach
- Strong leadership skills, high energy, self motivated attitude with an ability to work constructively with a team of manufacturing personnel, engineers and technicians
- Self-starter with “whatever it takes” attitude
Highly preferred skills and certifications
- Knowledge in SiC and related materials
- Hands on mechanical experience
- Vacuum technology knowledge background
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The Materials Business is seeking a high potential, resourceful, hands-on, problem solving Process Sustaining Engineer with the capacity to quickly grasp and resolve a wide range of technical challenges. The ideal candidate will thrive in a fast paced, deadline-oriented manufacturing environment and work constructively with a cross-functional team of manufacturing personnel, engineers and technicians. The candidate will be responsible for developing, monitoring, and characterization of equipment, raw material, and process impact to quality, yield, and cost of the SiC substrate production process.
What can our company do for you?
- Help Cree & Wolfspeed grow cutting edge technologies to enable new and exciting markets:
- Electric vehicle adoption.
- Sustainable power management.
- 5G telecommunications networks.
- And much more…
- Vertically integrated structure within Global Operations business provides exposure to all aspects of semiconductor manufacturing processes, from substrate manufacturing all the way through device testing.
- Business expected to grow at accelerated rate over next 4 years – opportunities to advance your career through many different pathways.
What can you do for our company?
- Own investigation, troubleshooting, and improvement of equipment impact on safety, quality, and cost of SiC substrate production processes.
- Define and refine methods to increase process repeatability and control to achieve higher yields, lower costs, higher flexibility, lower variation, and a safe work environment
- Apply good engineering practices to achieve continuous improvement.
- Work with R&D team to define, qualify, and transition processes from research through development and production
- Define, train, qualify, and lead process changes with salaried and hourly staff to ensure repeatability, reproducibility, and control.
What you need for success:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Materials Engineering or Materials Science.
- Strong organizational and planning abilities, independent thinking, attention to detail, and excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Willing to work in non-cleanroom type environment.
- Excellent MS Office skills
- High energy, self-motivated attitude with strong communication skills and ability to interface effectively with coworkers of different backgrounds at every level of the company
Highly preferred skills and certifications:
- Minimum of 1 year of engineering internship experience in a manufacturing environment troubleshooting equipment, material, or process impact on product quality and yield.
- Working knowledge of AutoCad or similar software.
- Familiarity with JMP, Spotfire, or similar software package.
- Ability to work on several projects simultaneously and demonstrated success in complete process ownership within a 24x7 manufacturing environment
- Excellent English language verbal communication, written communication, and presentation skills
- Statistical process control experience in a manufacturing environment
- Excellent overall computer and analytical skills
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Job Summary:
As a member of the Crystal Growth Equipment team, the person in this role will be responsible for performing equipment startup, modifications, upgrades, troubleshooting and maintenance on production and R&D systems. This role will interact directly with process engineering and other groups to meet department and Cree goals. Successful candidates will have a strong team mentality and strong communication skills. Candidates working in this area must exhibit and mandate safe working practices. This role will also be responsible for a diverse mixture of activities with a strong emphasis on hands-on mechanical assembly, high vacuum systems, and light electrical work.
This is a 12-hour night shift position.
Job Responsibilities:
- Provide equipment support to improve tool performance
- Troubleshoot equipment malfunctions (to board level in some cases), determine corrective actions, and implement these actions
- Performs electrical or mechanical troubleshooting to determine problems in non-functioning electro-mechanical equipment used in the manufacturing process
- Dismantles, adjusts, repairs and assembles equipment according to layout plans, blueprints, operating or repair manuals, rough sketches or drawings
- Uses test and diagnostic equipment to perform checkouts
- Rebuilds manufacturing equipment as required
- Provide flexibility for 7 X 24 technical support for critical ongoing projects, installations, and repairs
What you need for success:
- Associates degree in a technology discipline or equivalent military experience
- Strong hands-on based mechanical aptitude; using common hand and power tools, good vacuum practices, and attention to detail
- Mechanical background - because of the uniqueness of the equipment, candidates will not possess prior experience on Cree’s specific equipment
- Basic knowledge of electrical systems
- Ability to read and understand electrical wiring, block, and schematic diagrams
- Ability and desire to learn new fields of discipline
- Experience with MS Office Excel
Preferred Skills:
- Knowledge of vacuum and gas delivery systems
- Working knowledge of advanced electrical and electronic systems
- Relevant direct hand’s on experience or education in a related high technology field
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Job Description
CREE’s Global Operations team is seeking a Sub-Fab Supervisor for the RTP site. The Sub-Fab Supervisor is responsible and accountable for safe, compliant execution of all related sub-fab technicians work and for critical maintenance spares for the fab, aligning the annual goals to the strategy, cascading the goals and then supporting the site. The Inventory Supervisor must lead in a way that demonstrates the importance of safety and first time right. He/she must lead the team to implement change in a feedback rich environment which generates mutual respect and committed team members. Results must be achieved in a sustainable fashion. The Inventory Supervisor is expected to be able to thrive in a fast paced and very dynamic environment.
Job Responsibilities
- Supports/Sets clear direction for the site’s inventory strategy and adherence
- Reinforces desired behaviors of the Sub-Fab team and redirects undesired behaviors
- Is able to lead the team to system improvements to achieve sustainable results
- Is able to form partnerships with site leaders at all sites and functions to align on shared strategies and equipment goals
- Makes decisions with a view towards what is best for Wolfspeed, what is best for inventory regarding the fab, what is best for the team, and what is best for individual members
- Takes action to resolve gaps between performance and goals. Holds the team accountable for delivering on their goals. Rewards and recognizes performance which generates results
- Participles in pre-project/PM planning/scheduling meetings and ensures proper opportunity is given for inventory needs related to spare parts/PM tasks
- Ensures all inventory spares meet Wolfspeed standards and are consistent with engineering protocol
- Manages ordering of critical spares and engineering project parts, tracks usage rates and adjust min/max levels to meet best practices
- Provides monthly updates to manager including status vs. cycle count and reports on deficient counts
- Validates PO specified parts count is received, satisfactory and complete for payment
- Ensures all raw material including bulk chemical, compressed gas and waste meet fab and compliance needs/regulations
- Ensures all sub/fab equipment supporting the fab is in working condition, and has a proper PM schedule
- Setup testing protocol and validates working condition of all incoming repair pumps, chillers, and compressors
- Ensures documentation of inventory database is current and correct
- Develops and reports out on team KPI’s on a monthly
- Supervises buyers in daily work and ensures cost effective, in time purchases, and ROP’s/ROQ’s are being managed to meet overall goals
- Qualifies internal staff’s training and skills
- Writes employees performance evaluations
- Manages employee career growth
- Leads talent acquisition
- Leads inventory database setups, space needs and physical layouts
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years in an Inventory/technical lead role
- At least 3 years of chemical, semiconductor, or pharmaceutical inventory/technical experience
- Demonstrated ability to lead and motivate a high-performing team through cooperative, team-based interactions
- Demonstrated ability to perform well and lead under pressure with changing priorities
- Proficiency in reading and accurately interpreting engineering bills of materials (EBOMS),and mechanical spec sheets for parts ordering
- Able to develop and manage an inventory database including a vast range of parts and specifications
- Able to prepare high quality written performance appraisals
- Strong organizational and planning skills with the ability to multi-task
- Good written and verbal communication
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SUMMARY
The Cree IT organization has an opening for an entry level analyst within its Quality Systems Team. As part of the Quality Systems Team you will share responsibility for the success of Cree’s global quality organizations through the support/advancement of enterprise level quality applications, including Statistical Process Control, Maintenance Management, and Quality Management systems.
The successful candidate will have education and/or experience with manufacturing and industrial engineering concepts, as well as some programming experience. They should be capable of learning IT applications management and troubleshooting concepts.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Work with business leaders to understand their needs and devise solutions
- Lead projects of increasing scope and difficulty as your career progresses
- Provide applications support for commercial and in-house software systems
- Diagnose and resolve technical problems with software systems
- Develop and troubleshoot reports (SSRS and T-SQL)
- Drive root cause analysis for recurring incidents and develop preventive solutions
- Document applications and related processes
- Lead UAT efforts and manage deployment of new releases of software systems
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
- BS degree in Industrial Engineering, MIS, or Computer Science
- Some experience with programming and programming concepts
- Excellent troubleshooting and communication skills.
- 0-3 years of experience on a Manufacturing or Quality Systems IT team.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience with Microsoft SQL programming (T-SQL, SSRS, SSIS)
- VB.Net programming
- Experience with testing and deployment of software applications
- Knowledge of SPC concepts
- Knowledge of Quality auditing concepts (ISO, IATF)
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Job Summary
Wolfspeed is a growing part of the Cree organization. As a part of a newly organized team responsible for managing factory controls, there is an open position as a Defectivity Engineer in the Fab. Due to ITAR regulations, this role must be filled by a candidate who is a US Citizen or Green Card holder.
What can Wolfspeed do for you?
- Be instrumental in helping to shape the methods, tools, and mindset for data-driven defect reduction and in-line product validation in the RF and Power Wafer Fab
- Located in the thriving Research Triangle region of North Carolina, including locations that have been named best place to live in the entire U.S.
- Potential for future mobility within a strong-growth oriented company and a technology leader in Power and RF devices
- Work directly with technology directly contributing to the future of transportation, energy, and communications
- Be a part of a strong technical team that values agility, contribution, and enjoying work
What can you do for Wolfspeed?
- Drive defect reduction as the primary defectivity owner for a given product family
- Accountability for optimized defect measurement recipes and defectivity tool management
- Learn and maintain direct, hands-on knowledge of the process, equipment, and technology by self-guided training and in-fab experience
- Participate in efforts to provide optimized measurement, including sample rates, of in-line product balancing factors including yield opportunities, capacity, research, development, high-volume manufacturing, manual operations, measurement equipment capabilities, and line process and equipment control
- Organize and drive cross-functional teams in key defect reduction efforts
- Participate in driving general best-practices for managing defectivity throughout process, equipment, and yield engineering
- Participate in supplier relations for fab software and equipment
What you need for success:
- Candidate must be a US Citizen or Green Card holder
- Bachelors degree or equivalent in an engineering or science curriculum
- Minimum of 5+ years of semiconductor manufacturing experience
- In-depth understanding of Defectivity and Fab In-line Defectivity management
- General working knowledge of Photolithography, Etch, Deposition, Diffusion, Implant, thinning and thermal processing
- Working knowledge of SPC, OCAPs and in-line monitoring of both electrical performance and defect monitoring
- Must be a team player and have a "whatever it takes" approach
- Must have a positive, professional, energetic, can-do attitude
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Highly preferred skills and certifications:
- 5+ years in defectivity engineering in a leading-edge semiconductor fab, with a track record of successfully leading defectivity reduction efforts as measurable in yield and reliability improvements
- Working knowledge of both Power & RF semiconductor devices
- Exposure to ITAR regulations
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As part of the Racine Customer Experience Group, the LightingApplication Specialist performs a mixture of design, pre-sales and post-sales customer support responsibilities. In this role, you will design and recommend the installation of appropriate lighting equipment and systems, create lighting site plans and 3D models, use local building code requirements to perform energy calculations, and also interact directly with customers. You will be part of a team, while applying project management skills to drive your own projects to completion.
If what you have read so far is interesting to you, please continue reading below for additional Application Specialist duties.
You will:
- Study lighting requirements of client to determine lighting equipment and arrangement of fixtures that will provide optimum illumination along with economy of installation and operation.
- Design layouts with the appropriate type, number, and arrangement of fixtures for required light intensity and output. Recommendations are made within the customer's specifications, electrical and municipal codes, energy limitations, and bid/budget requirements. Provides designs verbally or through computer assisted lighting layouts.
- Respond to both internal and external customer questions regarding products.
- Perform site visits to document and evaluate existing lighting product or formulate new product requirements.
- Accurately document and maintain information pertinent to customer projects.
- Use your knowledge to visualize and interpret blueprints and rough line drawings and utilize measuring scales
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor’s Degree (BS) in technical field such as Engineering or Mathematics or equivalent work experience.
- Zero to two years’ experience in a related role or field, or equivalent combination of education and/or experience.
- Ability to operate computer assisted lighting software (AGI).
- Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
- Ability to write reports and provide detailed project analysis.
- Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, and customers, and the general public.
- Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry.
- Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.
- Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
- Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.Key words for search: Drafting, Drafter, Computer Drafting, Design, CAD, CAD Operator, AutoCAD, AGI, SolidWorks, Revit, 3D, blueprints, schematics, drawings, graphic design, mechanical design
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Job Summary
- Lead the Cree Lighting's Global Commodity Management team in their drive to create a world-class supply base that delivers high quality, competitively priced products in a very short amount of time to our plants and customers.
- Responsible for all sourcing decisions, as well as decision making and purchasing, for Cree Lighting's existing and new products.
- Ensure the supply base can support the innovations that have made Cree famous.
- Work collaboratively with the Marketing and Engineering teams on supplier issues to ensure early supplier involvement in new designs and a supply base that supports Cree’s Lighting technology roadmap.
- Set strategic direction for Cree’s existing supply base, defining a higher level of expectations, including innovative delivery programs that reduce lead times, collaborative programs that reduce the total cost of ownership, and improved supplier process capabilities that reduce purchased part defects.
- Lead the identification and on-boarding of new high-performance suppliers globally.
- Drive the negotiation of large supplier contracts and pricing, as well defining and implementing the policies and procedures that govern the purchasing process and supplier management process.
What can Cree do for you?
Cree Lighting has been at the forefront of the major innovations in the lighting industry, starting with the conversion of incandescent and fluorescent technologies to the more efficient and longer-life LED products, and now with the smart lighting and IoT capabilities that our customers seek. The Director of Global Commodity Management will be working with our Engineering team to identify and on-board the best suppliers to provide us with the building blocks of these cutting-edge technologies.
And, Cree values it’s people, providing:
- great benefits
- a relaxed working environment and dress code
- support for development, both internal and external
What you need for success:
- 10-15 years of experience in supplier management, supply chain management, strategic sourcing and/or a combination of experience and education within supply chain.
- The ability to demonstrate a passion for the Supply Chain role and motivation to develop themselves and team.
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering and/or Business
- 25-35% travel including international
Highly preferred skills and certifications:
- APICS (American Production and Inventory Control Society) CPIM or CSCP
- Institute for Supply Management – ISM or CPSM certifications
- Master’s degree
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Summary:
As a Program Manager for the Power Research and Development team, you will be the primary point of customer interface on projects for the development of new silicon carbide (SiC) power products targeted for strategic programs. You will interact with development teams for custom MOSFET designs and advanced packaging solutions that are matched to specific customers’ requirements and manage those customer relationships.
Responsibilities Include:
- Serve as primary interface between the development team and customers on programs identified to have the highest business impact
- Define project scope, cost and schedule and ensure commitments are met. Revise plans as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements.
- Serve as liaison between customer’s technical team and internal development team
- Coordinate sampling activity of pre-release MOSFETs and packaged devices
- Schedule and manage customer technical interchange meetings
- Drive customer agreement and alignment at the appropriate new product introduction (NPI) stage to ensure optimal schedule and customer satisfaction for the released product
- Align and resolve customer requirements through the NPI gate review process and related documentation, including PPAP for automotive customers, Design FMEA, datasheet development, and parametric validation
- Present project status, including budget and schedule, to upper management team
- Coordinate schedules across multiple projects to ensure that timely, accurate status information is provided to customers and internal management
- Develop, prepare, present, and lead technical and operational proposals and plans both internally and to customers
Requirements:
- At least 5 years of industry experience in process engineering, test, process integration or product engineering for power semiconductor components
- Strong understanding of semiconductor device fabrication and assembly technology
- At least 3 years of experience in project or program management
- Experience in a customer-facing role, either in Marketing or as a Program Manager
- Demonstrated ability to influence and drive cross-functional teams for product deliverables
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or closely related field
Preferred Qualifications:
- Power Semiconductor device physics knowledge. Working knowledge of power semiconductor testing, qualification and reliability.
- Experience with semiconductor product development and commercialization
- Demonstrated ability in cost, schedule, and proposal management
- Professional project management certification a plus
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- Supervises and coordinates activities or workers engaged in receiving, lifting, transporting, storing and loading materials and products by use of hand trucks and forklifts.
- Provides forklift training and certification
- Studies requests for movement of raw materials and reports of warehousing space available to develop schedule for all warehouse activities
- Confers with supervisors of other departments to coordinate flow of materials or products
- Verifies or prepares records such as material requisitions and work orders. Ensures all Locator System procedures are followed. Prepares weekly reports.
- Studies production schedules and estimates worker hour requirements for completion of job assignment. Interprets work orders to workers, and assigns duties. Establishes or adjusts work procedures to meet production schedules
- Maintains warehouse neatness and conducts regular inspections. Inspects material handling equipment for defects and notifies appropriate personnel.
- Provides counseling, disciplinary actions, and performance reviews for employees. Maintains performance and behavioral measurements of employees. Maintains harmony among workers and resolves grievances.
- Identifies and satisfies training needs of employees.
- Issues written and oral instructions. Studies and standardizes work procedures to improve efficiency of subordinates.
- Adjusts errors and complaints Develops and implements action plans to improve accuracy and conformance.
- Follows established safety programs and maintains knowledge of safe working practices. Accountable for subordinates following safety programs
- Manage PFEP for Value Stream Warehouse as well as the tugger pull system.
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- Supervises and coordinates activities or workers engaged in receiving, lifting, transporting, storing and loading materials and products by use of hand trucks and forklifts.
- Provides forklift training and certification
- Studies requests for movement of raw materials and reports of warehousing space available to develop schedule for all warehouse activities
- Confers with supervisors of other departments to coordinate flow of materials or products
- Verifies or prepares records such as material requisitions and work orders. Ensures all Locator System procedures are followed. Prepares weekly reports.
- Studies production schedules and estimates worker hour requirements for completion of job assignment. Interprets work orders to workers, and assigns duties. Establishes or adjusts work procedures to meet production schedules
- Maintains warehouse neatness and conducts regular inspections. Inspects material handling equipment for defects and notifies appropriate personnel.
- Provides counseling, disciplinary actions, and performance reviews for employees. Maintains performance and behavioral measurements of employees. Maintains harmony among workers and resolves grievances.
- Identifies and satisfies training needs of employees.
- Issues written and oral instructions. Studies and standardizes work procedures to improve efficiency of subordinates.
- Adjusts errors and complaints Develops and implements action plans to improve accuracy and conformance.
- Follows established safety programs and maintains knowledge of safe working practices. Accountable for subordinates following safety programs
- Manage PFEP for Value Stream Warehouse as well as the tugger pull system.
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Job Description
Wolfspeed (Cree's Power & RF division) is one of the world's leading suppliers of gallium nitride (GaN) wafers and devices for RF communications, radar and electronic warfare. Our business is growing rapidly and is in need of a RF/Microwave Power Amplifier Design Engineer for our RF product development team. The primary focus of this role is the Load-Pull System characterization, calibration, and verification of cutting edge products using GaN HEMT and LDMOS technologies.
At Wolfspeed, you will:
Apply your working knowledge and proficiencies, to Maury and Focus Load-Pull Systems
Maintain Load-Pull systems, including peripheral equipment
Perform load pull measurements
Design, Develop, and Characterize Load-Pull Fixture Standards (Line, Thru, Reflect)
Organization Load-Pull Activities Support (Load-Pull Team, Product Development Requests)
What you need for success:
- BSEE or demonstrated equivalent experience
- 3 years High Power RF circuit design/measurement experience with 2 years of load-pull experience.
- Working knowledge of measurements used for characterization of high power RF systems, including wireless standards and pulsed operation: Output Power, Drain Efficiency, PAE Efficiency, Power Gain, Linearity, Spurious emissions, pulsed topics including safe operational methodologies. The candidate should be an expert with Vector Network Analyzers and able to perform full TRL Calibrations, for 2-N port characterizations and fixture measurements.
- Working Knowledge and rudimentary programming skills and experience using Matlab and other tools for test control and driver generation.
- Working knowledge and experience with industry standard Maury and Focus load-Pull systems, including set-up and calibration techniques.
- Should be familiar with the following: broadband tapered fixture design, various classes of operation used in RF power devices (A, B, C, F, F’) as well as basic knowledge of Doherty operation, good trouble shooting skills and the ability to teach and learn in a dynamic, collaborative environment.
- Proficient at using CAD and Simulation software Tools AWR, ADS, Autodesk (Auto-Cad, Inventor).
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Job Description:
The Security Shift Lead serves as a leader in Cree’s Security and Emergency Operations program; supervises security officers and protects Cree personnel, property and product; monitors and patrols all local Cree facilities; responds to intrusion, gas or fire alarms, medical emergencies and other requests for assistance; and performs related work as assigned.
Responsibilities:
- Supervision of all personnel assigned to shift and ensuring compliance with all security and emergency procedures
- Completion of training requirements and qualifications in Operations Center functions/procedures within ninety (90) days of hire
- Conducting training exercises to maintain and improve security officer knowledge and proficiency
- Responding to all emergencies in accordance with procedures
- Performing mobile security patrols of all local Cree facilities
- Ensuring completion of training requirements for all shift personnel
- Completing periodic checks to ensure compliance with applicable procedures
- Providing relief for Operations Center personnel, when required
- Maintaining appropriate documentation for all assigned duties
Required Skills and Traits:
- Certification as a Certified Protection Officer or receive designation within 6 months of hire
- Unwavering honesty and ability to maintain confidentiality of sensitive matters
- Commitment to maintaining professional demeanor, with exceptional customer service skills
- Established self-motivation and ability to motivate others in a positive manner
- Ability to take initiative and exercise sound judgment in making decisions in high-stress situations
- Experience managing small teams; capability of establishing a cooperative environment
- Exceptional level of discipline; capability to lead by example
- Proven time management skills and high level of personal organization
- Strong oral communication and interpersonal skills
- Dedication to being a highly dependable team player; ability to maintain schedule flexibility
- Demonstrated ability tosafely operate a patrol vehicle in the performance of assigned duties
- Valid NC driver’s license and a clean driving record
Desired Skills and Traits:
- Associate’s degree in security management or criminal justice
- 2+ years’ experience working as a security supervisor for a large, multi-site organization
- Experience as a law enforcement officer
- Knowledge of writing reports and conducting investigations
- Knowledge of conducting mobile security patrols
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Summary:
We are looking for a talented Network Systems Engineer who is a dynamic out of the box thinker. This person will be responsible for managing all aspects of an enterprise network to include deploying, maintaining and providing operational support for access, distribution, wireless, voice, data center, perimeter and cloud environments. They will assist global network team in development and maintenance of all systems related to network with regards to security and network configuration. Additionally, will troubleshoot network performance issues, recommend upgrades, patch, and setup new applications and equipment as pertains to the network. Successful candidate will provide technical support and guidance to users at a level 3 support and point of escalation as team lead for the network team.
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.
As a key member of our Network Solutions staff, the candidate will work closely with other team members to design cost effective and scalable solutions for both on premises as well as in cloud solutions. The engineer will prepare scope documents and implement best practices for provisioning services to ensure investment in technology is consistent with business objectives. The engineer will also serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on Cisco infrastructure and support technologies and must have hands on experience in the aforementioned technologies.
The successful candidate will work in a fast-paced environment, and must be able to multitask while providing exemplary service to clients and enjoy mentoring team members. 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, team members, & service desk. 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:
- Engineer enterprise data, voice, video, and wireless network solutions
- Gather requirements from business users and present possible solutions to team lead
- Administer the operation of all LAN/WAN related network services according to defined policies and procedures
- Coordinate and implement network software and hardware upgrades
- Troubleshoot and resolve LAN/WAN performance, connectivity, and related network problems
- Work with other network support staff, helpdesk, and Information Security to resolve issues
- Work with vendors, clients, carriers, and technical staff on network implementation, optimization, and ongoing management
- Provide high-level support and technical expertise in regards to network technologies
- Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation of the network infrastructure
- Create and implement policies, procedures and programs for network asset management, including developing/maintaining a network component inventory, detailed network documentation, and technical specifications information to improve or supplement network infrastructure; determine proper maintenance tasks and procedures related to network operation
- Monitor network capacity to determine its effect on performance; recommend enhancements to meet new or changing network demands
- Document and log work related activity in service support ticketing system and facilitate best practices for customer service support
- Work towards maintaining awareness of new technologies and advances in the profession; read professional literature; attend workshops and training sessions as appropriate
- Maintain departmental standards, procedures, and documentation
- Participate in weekly On Call rotation
Knowledge, Skills, and Behaviors:
- Advanced working knowledge of network design, including the use of dynamic routing protocols, QoS principles and high availability configuration options
- Experience managing and configuring enterprise-wide LANs, WANs, WLANs, VPNs, VoIP, etc.
- Knowledge of various routing protocols such as BGP, EIGRP, OSPF, etc.
- Knowledge of various tunneling techniques including GRE and DMVPN
- Knowledge of network encryption technologies including IKE / IPsec
- Advanced WAN configuration such as multi-homed ISP connectivity
- Knowledge of Layer 2 switching technologies including STP, RSTP and Ether Channel
- Knowledge of cloud networking such as Azure, Amazon Web Services, & Oracle Cloud
- Knowledge of QOS engineering and tuning and WAN bandwidth management
- Knowledge of WAN acceleration technologies
- Knowledge of advanced network management and analysis tools, including Solarwinds (NPM/NTA/NCM/IPAM/UDT/), Fluke, NetMRI or equivalent.
- Ability to make sound decisions
- Offer flexibility and adaptability, especially during times of change
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Strong technical documentation skills
- Ability to conduct research into technical issues, standards and products as required
- Highly self-motivated and directed
- Keen attention to detail
- Proven analytical and problem-solving abilities
- Strong customer service orientation
- Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
- Strong interpersonal skills
Required:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience.
- Five (5) years of increasingly responsible network administration and design
- CCNP or equivalent professional level certification from other vendors such as Brocade, Juniper Networks, etc.
Any work-related experience resulting in acceptable proficiency levels in the above Minimum Qualifications is an acceptable substitute for the above specified education and experience requirements.
Preferred:
- Cisco Certification (CCNP, CCIE) or other relevant certifications
- Palo Alto, Brocade, or Aruba experience desired
- Cisco Unity Communications Manager experience desired
- Wireshark/packet sniffing experience is a plus
- ITIL Certification
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Cree has an opening for a Product Technical Support Specialist for our Technical Support Department. This position is located at our Racine, WI location.
Job Description
As a part of the Customer Experience Team, the Product Technical Support Specialist will use their product management /customer service skills to resolve customer's issues by working with various departments within Cree.
Job Summary
This person will need to be proficient in problems solving using their technical knowledge and working across company departments to drive solutions. Experience communicating with customers in a professional and timely manner is a key requirement to be successful. We are looking for candidates who have an electrical and mechanical engineering experience.
What can Cree do for you?
- Provide an opportunity for professional growth and upward mobility.
- Be part of an expanding technical support team, in a growing division of the company
- Put your technical support skills to the test in a challenging, high-volume environment
What can you do for Cree?
- Provide technical process support to Cree’s customers about Cree’s products
- Drive innovation and continuous improvement in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
- Work independently to resolve escalated customer product issues.
- Engage workgroups across the organization in prioritizing escalated customer concerns across the organization to drive customer satisfaction.
- Manage customer impacting escalations from initiation to resolution.
- Attend and contribute to escalation tracking meetings with senior Management.
- Provide updates regularly across the organization as to the progress of escalations and customer impact.
What you need for success:
- Minimum 2-year degree Associates in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical, Application /Field Engineer, Application Technical Support or similar qualifications Required.
- Strong customer support skills
- Proven troubleshooting skills for electrical products
- Lighting experience (LED) preferred
- Ability to drive solutions without predefined methods
- Ability to communicate at all levels within the company
- Excellent written and verbal skills
Key Words for Search: Project Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Technical Customer Service, Field Engineer, Lightning, Lightning Specialist, LED Lightning, Technical Support, Client Support, Field Technical Support, Customer Support Electronics
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This position will support development and sustain manufacturing operations in the Crystal Growth department to enable the production of high-quality SiC crystals. This position is in the manufacturing of parts using lathes, mills and meteorology tools.
This opening is for a 12 hour night shift position.
What can Cree do for you?
- You will have access to professional and technical growth opportunities in the rapidly expanding CREE Materials Business.
- Provide a unique opportunity to work with a team of scientists, engineers, and technicians to assist in the development and transfer of new processes over to production.
- Be a part of a strong technical team that values agility, accountability, and teamwork.
- Work directly with technology contributing to the future of transportation, energy, and communications.
- Opportunity to work in a fast-paced environment, for a technology leader who is developing the next generation of electronic devices and the materials that support them.
What can you do for Cree?
- Work with engineering and operations personnel to ensure process stability, health, and robustness.
- Sustain and manage daily manufacturing process operations for several Materials product lines and associated tasks.
- Participate in projects to improve crystal quality and yield to exceed customer expectation.
- Assist in yield excursions and investigate root causes.
- Perform any other tasks delegated as necessary to support the CREE Materials Business.
What you need for success:
- Two-year technical degree (CNC machining, mechanical or equilvalent) or equivalent experience, or equivalent formal technical / military training.
- Must be US Citizen or Green Card Holder.
- High energy, hands-on, self-motivated, problem solving individual with the capacity to quickly grasp and handle a wide range of technical challenges.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Strong organizational skills.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to interface effectivity with coworkers of varying technical levels such as engineers, technicians, supervisors, managers, etc.
- Ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to effectively transition to different tasks when priorities change
- Strong Microsoft Office computer skills (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook) with the ability to learn new program quickly.
Highly preferred skills and certifications:
- Experience in lathe and mill operations. Experience measuring with calipers and depth gauges.