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The team produces and delivers high-value, specialized semiconductor products for strategic partners, including products used in advanced lithography and metrology equipment.  You will work across the full product journey, tackle complex integration and yield challenges, collaborate with experts across imec, and interact directly with customers.  For engineers who enjoy the pace and discipline of semiconductor manufacturing but want to work closer to innovation, PWD offers a unique mix of advanced technology, ownership and tangible impact.   We are looking for a Senior Process Integration Engineer to drive the industrialisation of high value niche products for imec’s strategic partners and bring them from development to low volume production.\nWhat you will do\nYou will drive the industrialisation of the products developed at imec’s wafer fabrications facilities through the subsequent phases : industrialisation, pre-production and low volume production You will be in charge of defining and fine-tuning robust and manufacturable process modules You will be responsible for setting up SPC, verifying process stability and reproducibility and defining wafer acceptance criteria (WAC) You will build and manage the production plan based on the forecasted demand provided by the customer You will be the technical lead that will train and guide more junior engineers to execute the production plan and ensure on-time delivery of products that are 100% compliant with the specifications to our customers You will use integration knowledge and analysis of inline and electrical data to trouble shoot problems and lead cross-functional teams towards solutions You will actively pursue improvement of process quality and yield You will report project progress on a regular basis to your management and to the customers\nWhat we do for you \n\n We offer you the opportunity to join one of the world’s premier research centers in nanotechnology at its headquarters in Leuven, Belgium. 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