Team Lead First Line Support Production Engineer (Semiconductor Manufacturing)

Location: Wilton, Connecticut, US; onsite in the Wilton factory. Compressed work week day shifts from 10:00 AM to 10:00 PM: Front End Days on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and every other Wednesday, or Back End Days on every other Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Occasional travel may be required.

Base annual salary: $89,250–$130,900.

Company

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

What you will do

• Oversee First Line Support personnel during the assigned shift and align resources with production priorities, technical needs, and shift objectives.
• Guide troubleshooting, review engineering disturbance notices, and drive timely resolution of production issues.
• Coordinate task assignment, prioritization, follow-up, and completion while maintaining safety, quality, production, workflow, output, and cycle-time standards.
• Act as the primary shift contact for technical escalation and communication between the work floor, Production Engineering, Manufacturing, team members, and leadership.
• Coach, train, and mentor employees; identify team gaps and implement short-term containments and structural improvements.
• Present shift reports, attend Tier 2 and cycle-time meetings, support root-cause analysis and procedure improvements, and occasionally lead cleanroom troubleshooting activities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or in Science, such as Physics, Materials, Mathematics, or Chemistry, with 2+ years of production or manufacturing engineering experience.
• 5+ years of experience in a high-tech production or manufacturing environment, preferably with hands-on engineering support in optical fabrication, assembly, or advanced manufacturing.
• At least 2 years of direct people management experience.
• Experience leading daily work coordination, prioritizing tasks, and supporting shift execution in a dynamic production environment.
• Strong problem-solving, structured troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, containment development, and follow-through-to-closure skills.
• Experience coaching, training, mentoring, or providing technical guidance to engineers, technicians, or production employees.
• Ability to communicate production risks, disturbances, quality issues, and recovery plans clearly to cross-functional work centers and management.
• Ability to lead a team, set daily direction, maintain accountability, interface with multidisciplinary groups and senior leadership, and follow through on commitments.
• Strong written and oral communication, ownership, adaptability, reliability, integrity, teamwork, and commitment to safety, quality, continuous improvement, and timely results.

Nice to have

• Experience with optical fabrication or assembly processes, including dry or wet etch, optical polishing, lithography, optical contacting, coating, bonding, interferometry, or related processes.
• Cleanroom experience in manufacturing environments.
• Working knowledge of statistical process control, PFMEA, Teamcenter, SAP, and production-related software systems.
• Ability to interpret optical tolerancing, specifications, and scratch-dig requirements.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance for employees and families.
• Participation in the company 401(k) plan.
• Eight hours of vacation leave per month and 13 paid holidays per calendar year.
• Reasonable accommodations are available for applicants and employees with disabilities.
• The role may involve exposure to cleanroom environments, overhead cranes, forklifts, motorized pallet movers, lasers, ladders, platforms, chemicals, strong magnetic fields, and high voltage and currents.