Maintain/sustain manufacturing equipment and help to improve equipment availability/reliability. Prepare/schedule preventive maintenance work, pouring/changing chemicals when needed to backup chemical technicians including replacement of parts to meet manufacturing requirements. Help with equipment repair/PM/upgrade/install, procedures and safety guidelines/assist including train less experienced maintenance technicians in standardizing troubleshooting techniques as needed. Work closely with manufacturing personnel and equipment/process engineers in adjustments to be made in matter relating to equipment repair/PM/chemical pouring, procedures and safety guidelines/assist and help others in troubleshooting equipment. Daily hands-on involvement with tools in the following areas: wet etch, dry etch, photo and metrology. Overnight support of wafer fab facilities equipment is required as needed. Follow all Safety/LOTO procedure guidelines.

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE

Education: Minimum AA Degree or equivalent working experience preferred.

Experience: 5 Years in manufacturing environment and hands on experience as a maintenance/chemical technician.

SPECIAL CHALLENGES

• Must be able to wear a respirator.

• Forklift training and keeping up-to-date certification as required by safety.

• Must be flexible in helping to sustain the Fab on preventive maintenance work, chemical pouring, following all safety guidelines.

• Must be an ERT Member.

• Removal of hazardous material as needed.

• Work on holidays to help manufacturing as needed.

• History of overnight coverage preferred.

• Desired skills include understanding of statistical process control, Microsoft Office, and the ability to read electrical schematics, blueprints, etc.

• Tel 8, P5000, ASML, Versaline, Oxford, KDF experience preferred

• Responsibilities include preventive maintenance and repair of wafer fabrication equipment, including plasma etchers, metal deposition tools, wet processing tools, photoresist coater & developer tracks, and metrology.

• Create troubleshooting guides specifically for repeated root cause diseases.

• Help create/adjust min/max equipment spare parts for wafer fab as needed.

• Routine review of all equipment check-sheets to assure accuracy to meet ISO9000/14001 audit requirements.

• Help on sustaining and improving preventive maintenance work throughout the Fab. Occasionally required to work on different shifts for coverage or training purposes.

• Help cover the fab with chemical pouring/changing when chemical technician is not available when/if requested.

• Help implement desirable modifications in procedures, methods and processes within the areas or responsibility. Estimate requirements and take action accordingly.

• Help the stockroom clerk with equipment part number information and getting quotes as needed.

• Help with daily Ops meeting with Power Point Presentation for the equipment related to tool downs and required preventive maintenance work for the day or the week as needed.

• Help to identify significant contributors to mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, vacuum RF or hydraulic system stability and provide solutions which to improve the overall equipment performance.

• Publish progress reports as needed.

• Must perform job functions at high level with minimum supervision.

• Must be able to lift 50 lbs.

• Expected to help create written PM/LOTO/Troubleshooting Guide procedures and mentor/train less experienced maintenance technicians as needed.

• Work closely with other equipment maintenance technicians on helping to improve tool uptime/reliability and reduction of overall extended (>24h) unplanned tool downs.

• Hands-on operation and maintenance of process tools and follow wafer fab protocol procedures.

• Familiarity with safety procedures and working with hazardous materials is required (LOTO, high voltage, acids, solvents, PPE, MSDS, etc. History of overnight coverage preferred.

• Must be in standby on Pouring/mixing/refilling chemicals to help when production needs it done the most.

• Performs other duties as required.