Equipment Technician, Diffusion

Job Description

Responsible for performing advanced level repair, calibration, and preventative maintenance for semiconductor equipment, Diffusion area. Must demonstrate ability to take a leadership role in evaluating and providing maintenance requirements to ensure maximum availability of production equipment. Interfaces with Production and Engineers to identify and resolve process-related issues and provide technical guidance to other lower-level technicians. Determine methods and procedures for new assignments. May be informal team leader, and lead/direct the activities of the area shift pass-downs, and set priorities based on production requirements for the rest of the team. Must be able to work on difficult tasks as an independent contributor and in a team environment.

This Job Is For You If

• Perform complex machinery problem solving of semiconductor equipment in production environment for Diffusion area, and participate on problem solving teams.
• Ability to work under direction of an Equipment Engineer and/or Engineering Manager to plan and execute improvement project initiatives.
• Able to develop his/her own resources to solve problems, and provides imaginative solutions to a broad range of difficult problems producing significant results.
• Analyze recurring equipment failures and suggest innovative technical solutions, or new work methods.
• Lead and direct the activities to develop/improve existing semiconductor equipment maintenance procedures and systems.
• Collect equipment-specific performance data working with Engineering to develop and implement solutions to equipment-specific failures based on collected Pareto data, and tool deficiencies.
• Provide technical equipment-specific training to lower level technicians.
• Interface and direct vendor support to resolve equipment related failures.
• Ability to perform diagnostic troubleshooting and repair on malfunctioning equipment to component level (diagnostic to component level), as needed.
• Ability to take a lead role in resolving process issues and participate in yield investigations
• Proper judgment is required in resolving problems and carrying out assignment and making recommendations
• Participate and lead/direct ERT/Safety events, during the absence of supervision.
• Ensure all required parts are on order and follow up as required to minimize equipment MTTR.
• Must be able to work independent with minimal support.

Working Environment:

Assignment Complexity - Work assignments are complex in nature, where analysis of data requires an in-depth evaluation of various variables. Lead important and high complexity technical projects.

Accountability/Discretion - Viewed as a recognized technical expert and demonstrates proficiency in more than one major production or test area.

Working Relationships - Interface with all Production, Process, Facility and support functions to identify and resolve Production Equipment related issues, and provides technical guidance to other lower level technicians

Supervision - Acts independently to determine methods and procedures on new assignments

Working Conditions - Works in a fab clean-room environment

Job Requirements

• Associate of Science degree with an emphasis in Electronics or equivalent.
• 5 years technical experience in the semiconductor industry.
• Must have demonstrated working knowledge of advanced electro-mechanical systems operations and maintenance and be able to work with minimal or no assistance.
• Must have strong knowledge of electronic theory, vacuum and pneumatics theory, principles of electrical circuits, motor control systems and test procedures and the ability to troubleshoot to component level.
• Direct working experience with Applied Materials Producer, Novellus C1/C2 Sequel/C2 Speed/C2 Altus experience is desirable.

Pay range:

$26 - $38/hr