Littelfuse is one of America’s Best Mid-Sized Companies (Forbes) and has been named one of the Best Places to Work in Illinois (Best Companies Group) for 11 consecutive years. With its global headquarters in Chicago, Illinois, USA, Littelfuse is a leading, global manufacturer of electronic components serving more than 100,000 end customers across industrial, transportation, and electronics end markets. We have more than 17,000 employees with operations in 15 countries. From semiconductors to sensors… switches to fuses and more… we produce billions of electronic components that help our customers empower a sustainable, connected, and safer world. In 2021, Littelfuse had net sales of $2.1 billion.
In the position as Product Engineer (f/m/d) you will work at our plant site in Lampertheim and report directly to the Director Product Engineering SBU. The Product Engineer (f/m/d) is expected to narrow the gap between R&D and Production, enabling product and process development according to the Littlefuse development process. In this position you will work closely with Process Engineering, Product Marketing, R&D, Quality and Sales.

About the Job:

• Perform statistical data analysis to identify the root cause of product yield issues in wafer-fab, wafer test as well as product design
• Identify containment actions together with process- and quality engineers to ensure product supply to customers and manage teams to analyze and fix the root causes of yield gaps
• Define in cooperation with process- and quality engineers physical product failure analysis to identify the hardware related root cause of product fails and evaluate improvement options.
• Represent as team member in new process- and product development projects the production requirements to ensure that the new processes and products meet performance, quality, and yield requirements.
• Manage the product launch team in a wafer fab for new or transferred products
• Evaluate the cost-, quality- and yield risks of product change requests during the development and manufacturing phase of products.
• Identify together with other experts cost reduction and quality improvement options, evaluate these, and drive the implementation in production

About you:

• Technical degree or a degree in natural sciences
• Good understanding of statistical analysis methods
• Basic knowledge of semiconductor physics and device design
• 3+ years of experience in semiconductor wafer manufacturing or equivalent process development or engineering experience
• Good written and oral communication skills in German and English
• Experience with problem analysis tools e.g., 8D, 3x5 Why
• Very dedicated person who enjoys working in interdisciplinary and intercultural teams

Littelfuse strives to empower associate growth and development in a culture of ongoing collaboration and respect for diverse global perspectives and expertise. Our Core Values – Respect, Customer Focus, Agility, Collaboration – support us in our mission to improve the safety, reliability, and performance of our customers’ products that use electrical energy.
We are an equal-opportunity employer that takes pride in giving every associate the means and courage to make a difference – everywhere, every day.
We offer a variety of benefits, competitive salary, bonuses, flexible working hours, as well as development opportunities like internal Lean Six Sigma Certification.

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