Chemical Systems Maintenance Supervisor | TSMC

Key Responsibilities

• Supervise chemical systems technicians, lead technicians, maintenance technicians, contractors, and assigned field personnel.
• Plan staffing levels and assign daily work based on maintenance schedules, operational priorities, project requirements, technician qualifications, and system conditions.
• Establish clear expectations for safety, quality, productivity, documentation, attendance, communication, and professional conduct.
• Monitor employee performance, provide coaching and feedback, identify training needs, and support technician development.
• Conduct or support employee onboarding, technical training, qualification reviews, safety training, and procedural-verification activities.
• Review technician performance and provide documented feedback to management and Human Resources as required.
• Address attendance, conduct, performance, and work-quality concerns in accordance with company policies and management direction.
• Promote a professional, accountable, collaborative, and safety-first work environment.
• Develop lead technicians and senior technicians to provide consistent field leadership and technical support.
• Support staffing plans, interview activities, workforce forecasting, and employee-retention initiatives as assigned.

Maintenance Planning & Operational Oversight

• Oversee the operation, inspection, maintenance, repair, and troubleshooting of semiconductor chemical distribution systems and process-support equipment.
• Manage preventive-maintenance and corrective-maintenance schedules for pumps, valves, piping, tubing, filtration systems, instrumentation, sensors, controls, alarms, and related components.
• Review equipment conditions, open work orders, maintenance backlogs, system alarms, recurring failures, inspection findings, and operational risks.
• Prioritize work based on safety, production impact, equipment criticality, customer requirements, available resources, and project schedules.
• Verify that maintenance work is properly planned, staffed, documented, and completed according to approved procedures.
• Cooky, navigation, legal, EEO, equal-opportunity, scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions removed.

Troubleshooting & Technical Issue Resolution

• Direct troubleshooting and recovery activities involving chemical systems, mechanical equipment, electrical components, instrumentation, controls, alarms, and process-support systems.
• Review system data, maintenance history, alarm information, technician findings, test results, and operating conditions to support issue resolution.
• Provide technical guidance to lead technicians and field personnel during complex or urgent equipment issues.
• Coordinate root-cause analysis for recurring failures, equipment damage, chemical leaks, system interruptions, and reliability concerns.
• Partner with engineering, operations, vendors, contractors, and customer teams to develop and implement corrective actions.
• Determine when equipment should remain out of service and coordinate safe return-to-service verification.
• Escalate significant safety events, operational interruptions, environmental concerns, customer-impacting issues, and resource constraints to management.
• Document major incidents, repairs, corrective actions, lessons learned, and recommended preventive measures.
• Monitor corrective-action effectiveness and ensure required follow-up work is completed.

Safety, Environmental & Regulatory Compliance

• Enforce compliance with chemical-handling procedures, standard operating procedures, lockout/tagout requirements, PPE requirements, cleanroom protocols, and site-specific safety rules.
• Ensure compliance with Safety Data Sheet procedures, hazardous-material handling requirements, chemical labeling standards, spill-prevention practices, and emergency-response protocols.
• Lead or participate in daily safety meetings, toolbox talks, pre-task planning, job hazard analyses, work-permit reviews, and safety observations.
• Stop work when unsafe conditions, procedural deviations, uncontrolled hazards, or unclear instructions are identified.
• Participate in incident investigations, near-miss reviews, corrective-action planning, safety audits, and continuous-improvement activities.
• Coordinate with Environmental Health and Safety personnel regarding chemical hazards, incidents, required training, and compliance concerns.
• Promote proactive hazard identification and maintain accountability for safe work execution.

Documentation, Reporting & Customer Coordination

• Review and approve work orders, inspection forms, maintenance records, testing reports, shift logs, commissioning documentation, and equipment-status updates.
• Ensure documentation is accurate, timely, complete, and consistent with company and customer requirements.
• Prepare daily, weekly, or monthly reports regarding staffing, work completion, equipment conditions, open issues, safety performance, maintenance backlogs, and system reliability.
• Maintain organized records for preventive maintenance, corrective maintenance, inspections, repairs, training, qualifications, incidents, and corrective actions.
• Communicate directly with project managers, engineers, operations teams, contractors, vendors, and customer representatives.
• Participate in coordination meetings, planning meetings, readiness reviews, customer updates, incident reviews, and project-status discussions.
• Support audits, customer reviews, project documentation requests, and continuous-improvement initiatives.
• Identify opportunities to improve maintenance processes, technician productivity, equipment reliability, documentation accuracy, safety performance, and operational efficiency.