“By providing cost-saving, energy-efficient lighting, Cree is helping Habitat for Humanity build sustainable, affordable homes in partnership with thousands of low-income families across the United States,” said Chuck Swobada, Cree chairman and CEO. He adds, “Future Habitat homeowners can enjoy lower electricity costs and most likely won’t have to change their light bulbs for the next two decades.” Cree LED technology is leaving its mark on the world by helping build sustainable communities for Habitat as well as carving a dent in the world’s energy dependence.  Come and leave your mark by becoming a part of the Cree LED revolution! 

Cree is leading the revolution and setting the stage to obsolete the incandescent light bulb through the use of energy-efficient, environmentally friendly LED lighting. Cree is a market-leading innovator of lighting-class LEDs, LED lighting, and semiconductor solutions for wireless and power applications.

 Cree is the leading supplier of Nitride based LED chips and we created the first lighting class LED Components. Cree’s solid future in the LED market is demonstrated by its sound financials and rapid growth. We are a global company with 12 locations globally with over 3,300 employees which is headquartered in the technology driven Research Triangle Park, in Raleigh/Durham, NC. RTP is consistently ranked in the Top 10 Places to Live by Money Magazine. Our facility in Durham has approximately 1,400 full-time employees devoted to R&D, manufacturing, sales, marketing and other professional support roles.

 Key to Cree’s market advantage is unrivaled materials expertise in silicon carbide (SiC) with gallium nitride (GaN) to deliver chips and packaged devices that can handle more power in a smaller space while producing less heat than other available technologies, materials and products.  Cree’s product families include blue and green LED chips, lighting LEDs, LEDs for backlighting, power-switching devices and radio-frequency/wireless devices. 

The culture at Cree is a casual one where jeans and shorts are a typical sight. A healthy work-life balance is promoted and valued at Cree. A complete on-site fitness center is available to employees and spouses at no cost. This includes an indoor track, basketball court, racquet ball courts, aerobics room, free weights, cardio machines, you name it! Other benefits besides fulfilling professional goals while contributing to the energy sustainability movement include quarterly bonus program, stock options, 401K, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, tuition reimbursement, and medical/vision/dental coverage. 

We currently have an opening for a Wafer Fab Metals Engineering Group Lead within our LED Chips group.  This position will be stationed at our headquarters in Raleigh/Durham, NC. 

Summary:
In this position you have the opportunity to be the metals group leader for Cree’s LED Fab engineering team working as a key leader within the LED engineering organization by leading a group of metals process engineers and technicians in their technical and operational activities. Under your leadership the team will be responsible for process sustaining, tool and process qualification, as well as process and yield improvement. 

You will be a key leader managing a team of engineers and technicians focused on sustaining and improving the processes for LED device fabrication while sustaining and improving processes for LED device fabrication. You will practice interface with equipment engineering, management and manufacturing to improve cycle time, tool availability, process/product yield, and drive cost reductions. In this role you will partner with product engineering and development engineering to ensure effective new product and process introductions as well as consistent device performance and quality. In this lead role you will create and maintain operation specifications for production processes and equipment. In this job you will have the opportunity to exercise your leadership ability by driving the training and development of the engineers and technicians to create a solid and value-add contributing technical resources team. Each day at your job you will drive innovation and work towards continued improvement in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. Your valued ability to recruit, hire, train and develop high potential engineers and technicians will make you successful in this role.

 Requirements:

• BS in Electrical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, or Equivalent. 
• 7+ yrs Wafer Fab Experience.
• Significant experience and expertise with sputtered and/or evaporated metal depostion.
• Willingness to work a flexible schedule in support of 24x7 manufacturing. 
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability and desire to assume a technical leadership role within the organization
• Candidate must be a US Citizen or Green Card holder

 Preferences:

• MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, or Equivalent. 
• 10+ yrs Wafer Fab Engineering Experience, ideally with compound semiconductors.
• 3+ yrs as an engineering group leader or section head.
• In-depth technical understanding of semiconductor processes and equipment
• Excellent project management skills with demonstrated ability to identify manufacturing improvements, manage change, and implement solutions.
• Working knowledge of applied statistics (SPC/DOE) 

If what you’ve read so far sounds exciting to you, then we encourage you apply online. This will send an email directly to the recruiter associated with this opening. We actually do look at every resume that comes in and will get in touch with you directly if we think you’re a potential match. Our application process will take only 5-10 minutes, and our recruiting team will contact you with one week if we are interested in discussing this opportunity further.

Cree is the leader in LED technology. We hope you’ll consider joining our team to help us stay in that position!