Equipment Engineering Manager

Location: Farmers Branch, Texas, United States. Full-time day-shift role supporting four compressed day and night shifts in advanced manufacturing operations.

Company

hirify.global provides semiconductor test and measurement technologies and services across the product life cycle, including characterization, reliability, qualification, and production testing.

What you will do

• Lead Equipment Engineering Supervisors and technician teams supporting four compressed day and night shifts.
• Set standards for safe work, shift execution, escalation, technician coaching, pass-down quality, and cross-shift accountability.
• Drive timely response to equipment downtime, preventive maintenance, qualifications, tool recovery, and production-critical escalations.
• Improve equipment availability, MTBF, MTTR, maintenance compliance, repeat downtime, technician utilization, and manufacturing readiness.
• Partner with Manufacturing, Process Engineering, Quality, Facilities, EHS, IT/Manufacturing Systems, Supply Chain, and vendors to resolve issues and reduce operational risk.
• Support equipment installation, startup, qualification, capacity expansion, factory ramp, new product introduction, and technology transfer.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of related experience with a bachelor's degree, 6 years with a master's degree, 3 years with a PhD, or equivalent experience.
• Experience leading supervisors, leads, or frontline technical teams in semiconductor, electronics, cleanroom, precision manufacturing, or advanced manufacturing environments.
• Strong knowledge of equipment troubleshooting, preventive and corrective maintenance, equipment recovery, qualification, reliability improvement, and manufacturing readiness.
• Experience with multi-shift or 24/7 manufacturing operations and automated production, metrology, inspection, test, robotics, motion control, vacuum, pneumatics, controls, sensors, electrical, chemical, thermal, laser, or electromechanical systems.
• Working knowledge of EHS, lockout/tagout, electrical and chemical safety, machine safety, cleanroom protocols, quality systems, documentation and change control, audits, deviations, and corrective actions.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, engineering technology, manufacturing, automation, electronics, materials science, applied science, or a related technical field is preferred; equivalent technical leadership experience may be considered.

Nice to have

• Experience with quality-certified manufacturing organizations such as ISO 9001, IATF 16949, or ISO 13485.
• Experience using CMMS, MES, SPC, FDC, Power BI, Excel, SQL, JMP, Minitab, or similar manufacturing data tools.
• Experience applying Lean, Six Sigma, 5S, kaizen, standard work, FMEA, CAPA, DOE, or reliability-centered maintenance methods.
• Lean Six Sigma, CMRP, OSHA safety, electrical/electronic, PLC/controls, robotics, or project management certifications.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a culture focused on customer commitment, ownership, accountability, respectful communication, and people development.
• Benefits include medical, dental, vision, employee assistance, short- and long-term disability, and life insurance.
• Flexible spending and savings accounts, 401(k), employee stock purchase plan, and paid time off are provided.
• Safety, quality, teamwork, technical excellence, operational discipline, and continuous improvement are core expectations.