Work within a structured Japanese manufacturing environment.
And for selected employees, there is an opportunity for training in Japan — giving you exposure that many entry-level technician roles cannot offer.
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Lead supplier readiness/improvement work with new suppliers (pre-product launch) and existing suppliers (as needed)
Utilize supplier performance data and sourcing strategies to target, define approach, and continuously improve supplier performance
Ensure suppliers understand and apply Watlow’s change control requirements through annual training and auditing supplier’s conformance to the requirement
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Lead supplier readiness/improvement work with new suppliers (pre-product launch) and existing suppliers (as needed)
Utilize supplier performance data and sourcing strategies to target, define approach, and continuously improve supplier performance
Ensure suppliers understand and apply Watlow’s change control requirements through annual training and auditing supplier’s conformance to the requirement
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Oversee and manage the daily production activities, ensuring adherence to production schedules and quality standards.
Coordinate resources, including manpower, materials, and equipment, to optimize production efficiency.
Lead and supervise production teams, providing guidance, training, evaluations and support to ensure productivity and adherence to safety protocols.
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Implement solutions using modern development approaches including low-code platforms, AI-assisted development environments and agentic coding workflows where appropriate
Work with interdisciplinary and international teams to identify fitting solutions with an agile and value driven mindset
Develop and apply trainings, user concepts and operating models to ensure adoption of AI-enhanced processes, digital assistants and intelligent automation solutions
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Collaborate with EU counterpart, Project Managers, Process Integration, Operation Engineer, Vendor & varies parties to complete project ahead of given timeline.
Perform risk assessment through FMEA methodology & documentation of change through define change management process flow.
Bachelor/Master/PhD degree in Chemical/Mechanical/Material Science or equivalent Engineering Fields.
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Drive cross-functional problem-solving activities with Production, Process, Equipment, Quality, and other relevant teams to resolve manufacturing and quality issues effectively.
Develop and optimize failure analysis / inspection methods, inspection criteria, recipes, and procedures to improve defect detection capability, analysis accuracy, and process efficiency.
Prepare and review failure analysis reports, investigation summaries, trend reports, and technical presentations for management and cross-functional teams.
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Make sure to identify and monitor critical parameters (special characteristics), ensure smooth ramp-up; update control plans
Technical Ownership for site to site technology / product transfers, ensure site synchronization including proper change management
Lead, supervise and monitor manufacturing of the process technology in close teamwork with process engineering and quality assurance Improve yields, cost (e.g simplify process), process robustness based on inputs / requirements from yield enhancement / product owners / manufacturing / QA
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Identify and evaluate risk and hazards, environmental aspects and impact and safe work practices in the workplace, help develop controls for identified hazards & environmental aspects and coordinate the implementation of control or preventive measures by performing routine line walk and audit and communicate observations and monitor closure with action item owner.
Measure, evaluate and analyze the effectiveness of Safety control system, policies, and procedures and recommend changes to improve processes, eliminate/reduce workplace hazards and eliminate/reduce environmental pollutions
Investigate, compile, analyze and report Safety performance including industrial accidents, injuries, or occupational diseases and environmental investigation accidents
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Drive hands-on design evaluation, hardware validation, first article assessment, debug, documentation, and release-to-production activities for wafer test hardware
Support innovation in wafer-level test hardware for power, mixed-signal, discrete, and wide-bandgap semiconductor technologies, including high-current, high-voltage, thermal, and precision measurement applications
Work closely with test engineering, product engineering, equipment engineering, manufacturing, quality, safety, and external suppliers to ensure hardware readiness for engineering builds, pilot runs, and production ramp
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Monitor and recover daily and weekly jobs using Windows Task Scheduler, Splunk, logs and alerts
Provide 1st and 2nd-level support, root-cause analysis and vendor escalation for critical or recurring incidents
Support MFP/OTB, Allocation, Forecasting, Replenishment, Assortment Planning, Events and user administration and establish a reasonable process knowledge
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