Equipment Engineer, Screen Printing

The role

You will own a set of metallization tools including screen printers, dryers, and firing furnaces. You will perform hands-on repairs, diagnose failures, and manage PM schedules to maintain high-volume production.

What you will do

• Own OEE, availability, MTBF, and MTTR for your toolset.
• Diagnose and restore failed components when tools go down.
• Close root cause on chronic failures, wafer breakage, and leaks using 8D, FMEA, and Pareto.
• Analyze alarm histories, maintenance records, and tool data in JMP, SQL, Python, or Excel.
• Own the PM schedule, refine vendor PM procedures, and set critical-spares levels.
• Maintain interlocks, over-temperature protection, exhaust and abatement interfaces, and paste and solvent handling controls.
• Work with Process Engineering on print alignment, wet weight, screen and stencil life, and firing profile hardware.
• Bring tools through install, SAT, and qualification into production.
• Write down procedures and train technicians.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, or Mechatronics Engineering, or an associate degree with equivalent hands-on experience.
• 3+ years of hands-on equipment engineering in semiconductor, solar, or similar high-volume manufacturing.
• Hands-on repair of screen printers, belt dryers, or firing furnaces, including print heads, squeegees, screen and stencil mounting, vision alignment, belt drives, and thermal zones.
• Component-level troubleshooting from electrical schematics, pneumatic drawings, P&IDs, and PLC/HMI diagnostics.
• A track record of eliminating a chronic equipment failure.
• Safe working practice with metallization pastes and solvents, high-temperature belt furnaces, and LOTO.
• Cleanroom and sub-fab work in full chemical PPE.

Nice to have

• solar cell (TOPCon, PERC, or HJT) or semiconductor fab experience
• greenfield tool install, SAT, and ramp experience

About the company

T1 Energy is an American solar manufacturer building a domestic solar supply chain. They are building the G2 solar cell fab in Rockdale, Texas.