Senior/Principal Thin Films Process Engineer

at  Plessey Semiconductors Ltd

The successful candidate will join a team of engineers working in the Films department and will support the following disciplines: PVD, Evaporation, CVD, ALD and ECD. The successful candidate will ideally have good knowledge of ALD or Evaporation as well as some experience with PVD, CVD or ECD systems. The successful candidate will have a good knowledge of metrology equipment required to keep Films processes in SPC control.
This role will expand our team and will focus on change management, structured problem solving, process capability improvements and yield management. The role will be 08:00 – 16:30, Monday to Friday.

• Recipe development and optimisation at the Fab tool level
• Process tool ownership, including responsibility for documentation, training and tool performance monitoring
• Integration of tool recipes into the Process architecture
• Reporting progress to management at weekly and monthly intervals
• Specifying new tools, chemicals and techniques as required to meet the business objectives.
  As well as your pure technical responsibilities you will need good communication skills as you will be interfacing with professionals from both inside and outside the company.

You will need:

• A degree in either Physics, Chemistry, Material Science or Engineering
• A current UK work visa.
• At least 5 years’ experience working in the Semiconductor Industry as a process engineer supporting the following deposition disciplines; ALD, Evaporation, PVD or CVD.
• A wish for a long-term career with us here in the beautiful South West

The successful candidate may be required to work some form of rotating day shift pattern (shift premium payable) after successful completion of a probation period.
Plessey is an embedded technologies developer at the forefront of microLED technology for augmented reality (AR) display applications. Drawing on over a decade of semiconductor and optoelectronics expertise, we have developed a unique and proprietary GaN-on-Silicon platform to manufacture innovative microLED displays.
At our world-class manufacturing and innovation centre in Plymouth, we operate leading-edge wafer processing facilities to undertake the design, test, and assembly of products and a comprehensive suite of photonic characterisation and applications laboratories.
We are in an exciting phase of our development journey and are now closely partnering with Meta, who are developing new technologies to help connect and bring people together. Our mission is to help bring their vision of the next lightweight and stylish AR glasses to life.
The people and skills within Plessey are key to driving forward the development of our technology, and we are continually looking for passionate, motivated, and experienced professionals to join our growing team!
Plessey is working with world leaders in consumer technology, who are paving the way with innovative next-generation Augmented Reality and wearable applications, based on advanced microLED display solutions.
Challenging existing display technologies, microLEDs are propelling forward a vast, yet stagnated market, changing the way we interact with our devices, both for information and entertainment.
Drawing on over a decade of semiconductor and optoelectronics expertise, Plessey has developed an award-winning, unique, and proprietary GaN-on-Silicon platform and monolithic process at its state-of-the-art manufacturing facility