Semiconductor Gas/Chemical Operations Specialist

About the role

Job Profile Summary: Identifies opportunities to address safety issues, conducts safety training, and provides routine consultation completes safety tasks to ensure operations are performed safely and in compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local regulations and standards. Participates in emergency response activities.

Location: ASU Research Park in Tempe, AZ; travel between campuses required to service gases and chemicals at different ASU facilities.

Responsibilities

• Perform daily inspections and maintenance of hazardous waste areas, bulk gas system, gas cabinets, gas wall panels and valve manifold boxes (VMB's) for abnormal conditions and identifies, localizes and documents alarms / abnormal conditions in site reporting system or communicate with appropriate parties.
• Complete Chemical Inventory and Product Acceptance. Forecasts usage requirement for lab/fab research chemicals. Receive hazardous materials deliveries daily as needed.
• Recommend component and system improvements that are consistent with current technology; review gas / chemical system upgrades, installations, recommending improvements and solutions to problems at the discretion of the supervisor.
• Collect, transport, segregate, accumulate, install, test and perform initial safety and quality checks and disposal of hazardous waste, gases, and chemicals for ASU Knowledge Enterprise departments and various facility tenants.
• Determine proper disposal based on hazard classes and compatibility of chemicals, packages documents and labels waste for shipment to appropriate disposal facilities pursuant to disposal facility, state and federal requirements.
• Maintain accumulation of facility records and database on all accumulated gases, chemicals, and hazardous waste streams, and schedule hazardous materials/waste collection, handling, and shipping for Macro technology campus location.
• Ensure that the Safety Work Permit (SWP) program is followed and, properly notifying the appropriate parties in accordance with OSHA LO/TO. Maintain logs and records of SWPs issued. Assist in the identification of all valves requiring LO/TO. Perform LO/TO on all valves of gas cabinets, inert gas panels, and the fabs point of connection for all gases.
• Perform operational sustaining maintenance to all Toxic Gas Monitoring Systems (TGMS). Coordinate and schedule all required outside service on the site TGMS. Retain overall management of the TGMS to include accurate cataloging of points/location and building Fire Alarm System programming interfaces with TGMS.
• Generate and maintain appropriate documentation and record keeping meeting environmental regulations for the Specialty Gas, Chemical, and Life Safety Systems.
• Advise faculty, staff, and students regarding proper waste management techniques and provide recommendations for appropriate action.