Equipment Engineering Technician, Dry Etch

About the role

You will be responsible for performing advanced level repair, calibration, and preventative maintenance for semiconductor equipment in the Dry Etch area. You must demonstrate ability to take a leadership role in evaluating and providing maintenance requirements in order to ensure maximum availability of production equipment. You will interface with Production and Engineers to identify and resolve process-related issues, and provides technical guidance to other lower level technicians and determine methods and procedures on new assignments.

Responsibilities

• Perform complex machinery problem solving of semiconductor equipment in production environment for Hivac area.
• Participate on problem solving teams.
• Develop 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.
• Perform diagnostic troubleshooting and repair on malfunctioning equipment to component level (diagnostic to component level).
• Take a lead role in resolving process issues and participate in yield investigations.
• Ensure all required parts are on order and follow up as required to minimize equipment MTTR.

Requirements

• Associate of Science degree with an emphasis in Electronics or equivalent.
• 5+ years technical experience in the semiconductor industry.
• Demonstrated working knowledge of advanced electro-mechanical systems operations and maintenance and be able to work with minimal or no assistance.
• 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 at least one of the listed toolsets is required: TEL Unity, LAM 2300 - 9400 PTX, Fusion, Applied Materials DPS Metal, Applied Materials DPS Poly, Applied Materials EMAX Oxide, Applied Materials MxP+ Oxide, Applied Materials MxP+ Oxide, Applied Materials Super-E platforms. Applied Materials Producer systems experience is also desirable.

Qualifications

Must be able to work on difficult tasks as an independent contributor and in a team environment.

Skills

• Complex machinery problem solving
• Problem solving team participation
• Solution development
• Equipment failure analysis
• Technical training provision
• Vendor support coordination
• Machinery repair to component level
• Process issue resolution
• Yield investigation participation
• Equipment MTTR management

Pay

$28.00/hr - $38.00/hr

Schedule

Thursday - Saturday and every other Wednesday from 5:30am - 5:45pm