Industrial Facilities Engineering Chemical Systems Technician

At Sky Water, our ingenuity helps improve lives around the world by manufacturing U.S. made semiconductors that are essential ingredients of modern life. Automotive safety enhancements, life‑saving medical devices, consumer electronics and American security require semiconductors. Working in our Minnesota headquarters, Florida, or Texas location — employees join together to improve the world.

Joining our U.S.

- based team means contributing to and learning about the commercialization of some of the most exciting technologies the world has ever seen. We are turning “science fiction” into everyday reality through technologies such as superconducting, 3D integrated circuits or computer chips, carbon nanotubes, photonic logic devices, micro electro-mechanical systems and other emerging device topologies. We manufacture products for aerospace and defense, medical, automotive, consumer and industrial markets, to name a few.

Our customers include emerging leaders who rely on our intellectual property security and quality manufacturing services.

Sky Water’s values of Integrity, Excellence, Collaboration, Empowerment and Growth Mindset guide us to cultivate an empowered, learning environment. We also invest in developing highly skilled, dedicated employees — and employees who are entering the workforce for the first time, from the military, and a variety of educational backgrounds.

Find your place on our team and help us change the world!

Plant Engineering Chemical Systems Technician

Shift: E Shift: 8 am – 4 pm, Monday-Friday

• Provide cultural leadership by exemplifying core values
• Coordinate/Plan/Perform equipment preventative maintenance, repairs, and improvements
• Contractor management
• Provide technical guidance to technicians and be directly involved in SOP development and training
• Support root cause investigations and implementation of solutions
• Technical expert and primary focus on chemical systems, slurry systems, chemical dilutions, batch creations. Responsible for drum, tote chemical changes and offloading of bulk chemical systems.
• Working knowledge of filtration, assay concentrations, titrations, pH, %
  Solids, conductivity
• Unloading and receipt of chemical deliveries, storage of chemicals, review of certificate of analysis
• Develop annual plans for activities within equipment area as well as capital planning
• Ensure site uptime and equipment reliability.
• Management of chemical inventory, FIFO
• Hazardous waste handling
• Resist cannister changes
• Maintain supply and quality parameters of chemical and slurry distributions.
• Maintain equipment uptime through maintenance activities and troubleshooting of system equipment which include valves, filters, piping, pressure vacuum vessels, pumps, instrumentation and other components.
• Ability to operate system equipment via HMI for batch creation and - or distribution.
• Ability to monitor and operate HVAC equipment and respond to key equipment such as boilers, cooling towers, and chillers which are critical for clean room operations.
• Other key equipment: scrubber systems, fire system, vacuum, compressed air
• Operate the DI water plant
• Perform system rounds and rotate equipment
• Work within defined technical processes and procedures.
• Initiate and drive continuous improvements.
• Uphold area upkeep and 5S principles.
• Ability to operate heavy machinery including forklift, pallet jack
• Collaborate cross departmentally, escape as required.
• Complete assigned preventative maintenance tasks.
• Record keeping, reporting, as required.

• Education:
  
  2 Year Technical/associate’s degree in technical discipline or equivalent military training / manufacturing work experience.

• Experience:
• 5 years’ experience in chemical operations or manufacturing
• 8-10 years related work experience- manufacturing or operations.
• Skills:
  
  mechanical inclination, ability to troubleshoot system equipment, good communication, attentive to detail, collaborative.
• US Citizenship
  
  Required:
  
  This position will require the holding of or ability to obtain government security clearance which requires U.S Citizenship.