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ETCH Manager IV, Customer Engineer

Kitakami, Japan

Overview

As a ETCH Manager IV, Customer Engineer, you'll serve as Applied’s direct liaison with our customers and quickly solve high-value problems on their behalf. By collaborating closely with our customers onsite to install, maintain, and upgrade Applied Materials equipment, and with our internal teams to improve business processes, you’ll make a significant impact on ensuring peak performance and deliver exceptional service, while becoming an integral part of Applied Materials' dynamic field team.

We empower our ETCH Manager IV, Customer Engineer through comprehensive on-the-job training and the use of advanced digital tools and immersive technology, including Augmented Reality (AR) to support the systems and processes that underpin everyday semiconductor chip production.

  • Full Time
  • Level: Senior
  • Travel: 10% - 30%
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Success Profile

What makes a successful ETCH Manager IV, Customer Engineer at Applied Materials? Check out the top traits we’re looking for and see if you have the right mix.

  • Problem Solver
  • Communicator
  • Collaborative
  • Industrious
  • Results Driven
  • Trustworthy

Culture Points

  • Our culture has always exhibited our core values – Most Valued Partner, Winning Team, Responsibility & Integrity, and World Class Performance. To live these values – and to succeed as a global business – we hire the best minds in the industry from various backgrounds all over the world.
  • We focus on creating an environment where employees do their best work, realize their full potential, feel valued and heard, and are connected and included. Employees participate in over 30 employee engagement groups globally– that are accessible to all – to support employee connection and business impact.
  • Applied is a growing company, in a growing industry, which creates innumerable pathways for personal career development. Our commitment to career growth includes: participation in innovative projects, comprehensive training, mentorship and shadowing opportunities, internal mobility, and the ability to travel (and apply) globally to our locations in 24 countries.
  • As a leader in the semiconductor industry, we see it as our responsibility to make sure that, as we focus on our business’ growth, we don’t compromise the environment. As a company, we are on-track to reach our global goal of 100% renewable energy by 2030. Currently, 70% of electricity at Applied globally – including 100% in the U.S.-- comes from renewable sources.

If you like working with your hands and troubleshooting complex problems, Applied Materials is definitely a place where you want to work, and Field Service Engineer is the role to start with because the sky is the limit.

— Jimmy D., Field Service Engineer

Benefits

Learn about our benefits.

  • Compensation & Benefits

    You qualify for a competitive and comprehensive total rewards program starting on Day 1.

  • Wellness

    Our Employee Assistance Program, meditation and family support resources, travel insurance, and other options enhance your physical, emotional, social, and financial wellbeing.

  • Development & Training

    Take advantage of free career development and mentoring programs, as well as technical and professional courses.

  • Work-Life Balance

    We offer generous Flexible and Paid Time Off for employees to support their goals and lives outside of work.

  • Community

    Join one of our 30+ Employee Resource Group chapters, attend Fun@Work Events, and find a sense of belonging among our global team.

  • Giving

    Our worldwide “Giving” program encourages employees around the globe to donate money and volunteer their time, and the Applied Materials Foundation matches employee contributions.

Responsibilities

Job ID
R2511587
Date posted
02/18/2025
Location
Kitakami, Japan
Category
Customer Service & Support

Who We Are

Applied Materials is the global leader in materials engineering solutions used to produce virtually every new chip and advanced display in the world. We design, build and service cutting-edge equipment that helps our customers manufacture display and semiconductor chips – the brains of devices we use every day. As the foundation of the global electronics industry, Applied enables the exciting technologies that literally connect our world – like AI and IoT. If you want to work beyond the cutting-edge, continuously pushing the boundaries of science and engineering to make possible the next generations of technology, join us to Make Possible® a Better Future. 

What We Offer

Location:

Kitakami,JPN

At Applied, we prioritize the well-being of you and your family and encourage you to bring your best self to work. Your happiness, health, and resiliency are at the core of our benefits and wellness programs. Our robust total rewards package makes it easier to take care of your whole self and your whole family. We’re committed to providing programs and support that encourage personal and professional growth and care for you at work, at home, or wherever you may go. Learn more about our benefits

You’ll also benefit from a supportive work culture that encourages you to learn, develop and grow your career as you take on challenges and drive innovative solutions for our customers. We empower our team to push the boundaries of what is possible—while learning every day in a supportive leading global company. Visit our Careers website to learn more about careers at Applied.

Key Responsibilities

  1. Forecasts financial, manpower, and operational requirements for key businesses (start up, warranty, service agreements, paid service). Identifies and pursues service agreement business in conjunction with marketing and sales.
  2. Manages start ups in terms of time and cost requirements. Manages local inventories and RMA procedure. Maintains DSO according to goal. Manages systems start up and warranty cost under reserve.
  3. Ensures customer satisfaction with Company service and system performance.
  4. Interviews, hires, and trains customer engineers as necessary to support regional business.
  5. Ensures employee satisfaction through:

    - communication of business progress and all related action.

    - setting goals and controlling achievements.

    - establishing training and career development plans.

    Ensures the appropriate safety practices among customer engineers. Develop CE skills. Spots and develops managerial/other specialist talent. Ensures employee satisfaction through:

  6. Escalates system downs according to valid escalation procedure, to ensure earliest possible return to service. Reports in a timely and accurate manner as required.

  7. Achieves guaranteed up time and other parameters as sold to customers.

  8. Promotes quality improvement processes to:

    - reduce cycle time

    - drive continuous improvement of technical performance 

    - empower the work force

Functional Knowledge

  • Demonstrates in-depth understanding of concepts, theories and principles in own job family and basic knowledge of other related job families

Business Expertise

  • Applies understanding of the industry and how own area contributes to the achievement of objectives

Leadership

  • Manages a generally homogeneous team; adapts plans and priorities to meet service and/or operational challenges

Problem Solving

  • Identifies and resolves technical, operational and organizational problems 

Impact

  • Impacts the level of service and the team’s ability to meet quality, volume, and timeliness objectives
  • Guided by policies and resource requirements within business unit, department or sub-function

Interpersonal Skills

  • Guides, influences and persuades others internally in related areas or externally

Position requires understanding of Applied Materials global Standards of Business Conduct and compliance with these standards at all times. This includes demonstrating the highest level of ethical conduct reflecting Applied Materials' core values.

Additional Information

Time Type:

Full time

Employee Type:

Assignee / Regular

Travel:

Yes, 10% of the Time

Relocation Eligible:

Yes

Applied Materials is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law.