Engineering Specialist III, Equipment Maintenance (AOI)

Location: Johor, Malaysia. Onsite role; travel is not required.

Company

hirify.global.

What you will do

• Maintain and monitor Automated Optical Inspection (AOI) equipment to support equipment stability, inspection capability, and consistent high-volume production.
• Provide technical support to Manufacturing, Maintenance, Process, Equipment Engineering, and Quality teams for equipment issues and production recovery.
• Troubleshoot equipment abnormalities, inspection issues, machine-to-machine variation, and recurring failures; perform root cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Monitor equipment conditions, inspection results, preventive maintenance, yield, and defect performance; investigate abnormal trends.
• Support engineering evaluations, data collection, experiments, equipment and recipe optimization, qualification activities, calibration, and improvement initiatives.
• Maintain technical documentation and provide technical guidance to technicians and production support personnel.

Requirements

• Strong hands-on troubleshooting and analytical problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced manufacturing environment, manage multiple technical priorities, take ownership, and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Hands-on experience in equipment troubleshooting, calibration, performance monitoring, and reliability improvement.
• Understanding of optics, lasers, sensors, automation, and electrical or electronic fundamentals.
• Experience supporting high-volume manufacturing operations, including production troubleshooting and equipment performance improvement.
• Experience with structured problem-solving methods such as RCA, 5 Why, DMAIC, FMEA, or statistical analysis.
• Technical documentation, reporting, and presentation skills.
• Experience with AOI or other automated inspection systems, optical inspection, surface defect detection, inspection optimization, preventive and corrective maintenance, equipment calibration and alignment, reliability improvement, parameter optimization, and sensor, actuator, electrical, or electronic troubleshooting.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a fast-paced, high-volume manufacturing environment.
• Collaborate with Manufacturing, Process, Equipment, Maintenance, and Quality teams.
• Support knowledge sharing with technicians and production support personnel.
• Travel is not required.