Dr. Tim Bruchmueller

Engineering Accelerator | Technology Facilitator | Talent Integrator

Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

About

As a solution provider to our semiconductor business partners, engineering needs to be at its best. With my experience in production, service, product management and product development I streamline engineering processes, tools and teams to focus all efforts to meet our customers’ needs. Technology pushes boundaries and leads to innovation. Innovation needs room, structure and focus. With the background in product development, I enable innovation teams by providing tools, methods and processes for innovation in the best time-to-market possible. Experience helps to optimize existing solutions and helps to evaluate innovation. Fresh minds can help to imagine beyond. Balancing experience and imagination provides solid foundation for viable and innovative solutions. My contribution is to form balanced teams for mutual success.

Experience

  • SÜSS MicroTec (7 yrs 5 mos)
    • Director Platform & Systems
      Jan 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 7 mos

      Responsible for global customer order engineering, RnD methods & processes, technical compliance, test systems engineering, sustainability engineering and technical export control 88 employees @ 3 locations on 2 continents

    • Manager Mechanical Engineering
      May 2020 - Jan 2023 · 2 yrs 9 mos

    • Product Manager - Coater/Developer
      Mar 2019 - May 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) (5 yrs 2 mos)
    • Research Assistant - Validation Technology
      Jul 2017 - Feb 2019 · 1 yr 8 mos

      Research of a test rig for testing rotary hammer drills without concrete and without drill bits. Development of measurement technology for recording impact numbers and drilling torques. Carrying out impact number and drilling torque tests using Design of Experiments (DoE). Statistical analysis of the results. Modeling of the drill-concrete contact. Development of hardware and control technology for mapping the number of impacts and drilling torque on the hammer drill. Production, construction and commissioning of the hammer drill test rig.

    • Group Leader Power Tools
      Feb 2016 - Nov 2017 · 1 yr 10 mos

      Group leader of the Power Tool research group at the IPEK - Institute for Product Development. Activities: Project acquisition, submission of research proposals, staff management, appraisal interviews and staff development, quality control (project results and publications), staff recruitment, budget planning, co-development of the chair's strategy, representation of the chair at public events.

    • Research Assistant - Forschungsgroßgerät
      Jan 2014 - Jul 2017 · 3 yrs 7 mos

      Preparation of a research proposal with a volume of 1.6 million euros to set up a research environment for analyzing human-technology interactions. Project management, planning, coordination, execution of the installation and commissioning of the proposed research environment.

  • RENA Technologies GmbH (4 yrs 9 mos)
    • Service Engineer
      Aug 2007 - Sep 2008 · 1 yr 2 mos

      Management of assemblies for major customers in Taiwan. Planning move-in, coordination of deadlines with customers, commissioning (hardware), commissioning (process), customer training, services, training of Rena engineers (Asia), overall responsibility for equipment approx. 5 million euros

    • Team Leader Assembly - Wafer Cleaning
      Jan 2006 - Jul 2007 · 1 yr 7 mos

      Managing the assembly process for the production of wafer cleaning systems. Material planning, personnel planning and scheduling. Commissioning and testing of the assembled systems. Assembly at the customer's site (Taiwan/USA). Short-term service assignments (Taiwan)

    • Team Member Assembly - Wafer Cleaning
      Jan 2004 - Dec 2005 · 2 yrs

  • Technical Apprentice at Ernst Reiner GmbH & Co. KG
    Sep 1999 - Feb 2003 · 3 yrs 6 mos