Team Lead First Line Support Production Engineer (Semiconductor Manufacturing)

Location: Wilton, Connecticut, United States; onsite work in the Wilton factory. Compressed work week with 12-hour shifts from 10:00 AM to 10:00 PM. Occasional cleanroom work, campus movement, travel, and exposure to manufacturing hazards may be required. Access to controlled technology requires legal authorization under United States export regulations.

Base annual salary range: $0–$0 as stated in the posting.

Company

hirify.global develops and services lithography systems used by leading semiconductor manufacturers to produce smaller, more powerful and energy-efficient microchips.

What you will do

• Lead First Line Support personnel during assigned shifts and align resources with production priorities, technical needs, and shift objectives.
• Coordinate troubleshooting, engineering disturbance notices, technical escalations, and timely resolution of production issues.
• Serve as the shift communication point between the work floor, Production Engineering, Manufacturing, leadership, and cross-functional work centers.
• Monitor workflow, output, quality, cycle time, risks, and barriers while presenting daily shift reports and recovery actions.
• Coach, train, and mentor employees, identify team capability gaps, and implement containment and structural improvements.
• Support root-cause analysis, manufacturing procedures, technical work instructions, cycle-time improvement, and cleanroom troubleshooting.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or in science disciplines such as physics, materials, mathematics, or chemistry.
• At least 2 years of experience in production or manufacturing engineering and 5+ years in a high-tech production or manufacturing environment.
• Experience coordinating daily work, prioritizing tasks, leading shift execution, and supporting technical troubleshooting.
• Strong problem-solving, structured troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, containment development, communication, and follow-through skills.
• Experience coaching, training, mentoring, or providing technical guidance to engineers, technicians, or production employees.
• Must be legally authorized to access controlled technology under United States export regulations before beginning work.

Nice to have

• Experience with optical fabrication or assembly processes, including etching, optical polishing, lithography, optical contacting, coating, bonding, or interferometry.
• Cleanroom manufacturing experience and familiarity with statistical process control, PFMEA, Teamcenter, SAP, and production software.
• Ability to interpret optical tolerancing, specifications, and scratch-dig requirements.
• Direct people management or complex project management experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employee benefits including medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance.
• 401(k) plan participation.
• Eight hours of vacation leave per month and 13 paid holidays annually.
• Work in a safety-, quality-, and continuous-improvement-focused manufacturing environment.
• Equal opportunity workplace with reasonable accommodation support for applicants and employees with disabilities.