We’re partnering with a leading advanced materials and engineered solutions manufacturer seeking Process Engineers to join their team in the Chatsworth, CA area. This full-time role will focus on developing and optimizing manufacturing processes, driving efficiency, and ensuring high-quality production standards. The ideal candidate brings strong technical expertise, problem-solving skills, and a collaborative mindset to support innovation and growth within a fast-paced environment.
Work Location: Chatsworth, CA (Onsite)
Compensation: Competitive base salary commensurate with relevant experience, annual bonus, & full benefits available
Start Date: ASAP
Process Engineer (front end):
- Project management to track manufacturing runs and do time studies.
- Work with design Engineers to develop and release new manufacturing processes and tooling, with responsibility for implementation on the factory floor.
- Become a SME of the current manufacturing processes
- Design new and improve existing manufacturing processes and methods, tooling, automation and work instructions, applying Lean and Six Sigma principles.
- Able to create Operational Method Sheets
- Industrial engineering knowledge to lead continuous improvement in manufacturing runs and any time studies.
Process experience:
- Photolithography (resist coating, resist UV exposure, resist development)
- Wet chemical cleaning, etching of patterned layers using photolithography techniques
- Wet chemical cleaning, plating of blank and patterned layers using photolithography techniques
- Dry plasma chemical cleaning, etching and stripping of patterned layers
- Metrology and inspection techniques characterizing thickness, surface topology, width in the micrometer range
Desirable Previous Industry:
- Semiconductor, PCB, Flex, MEMS, Sensors manufacturing
Process Engineer (back end):
- Project management to track manufacturing runs and do time studies.
- Work with design Engineers to develop and release new manufacturing processes and tooling, with responsibility for implementation on the factory floor.
- Become a SME of the current manufacturing processes
- Design new and improve existing manufacturing processes and methods, tooling, automation and work instructions, applying Lean and Six Sigma principles.
- Able to create Operational Method Sheets
- Industrial engineering knowledge to lead continuous improvement in manufacturing runs and any time studies.
Process experience:
- Solder mask photolithography (solder mask coating, solder mask exposure, solder mask development)
- Solder paste preparation, cleaning (flux), dispensing, wetting (adhesion to materials), baking
- Welding, soldering, reflow soldering (vapor phase and conveyor oven)
- Wet cleaning technologies (ultrasound, chemical surfactant, drying, outgassing)
- Dry cleaning technologies (plasma, atmospheric plasma, ionization)
- Metrology and inspection techniques characterizing thickness, surface topology, roughness, adhesion, hardness, voids (X-ray, SAM,…)
- (optional) electrical testing
Desirable Previous Industry:
Semiconductor, PCB, Flex, MEMS, Sensors manufacturing