Process Engineering SME - Microelectronics

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The Process Engineering Subject Matter Expert (SME) – Microelectronics is a senior technical leadership position responsible for advancing the quality, consistency, efficiency, and technical capability of Aquatech’s global Microelectronics process engineering organization.

Reporting to the Senior Director of Microelectronics Engineering, this role serves as a hands‑on technical authority supporting complex semiconductor water and wastewater treatment projects across Aquatech’s global Microelectronics engineering network, including teams in the United States, Singapore, Malaysia, China, and India.

The Process Engineering SME provides tactical technical leadership across Ultra Pure Water (UPW), Wastewater Treatment (WWT), Water Reclaim, and Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) applications. The role performs independent technical QA/QC of complex treatment designs and process flow sheets, supports technology evaluation and qualification, develops standardized engineering solutions, and mentors process engineers throughout the global organization.

A critical objective of this position is translating proven technologies and engineering best practices into repeatable, standardized Basis of Design packages that improve engineering quality, accelerate project execution, reduce technical risk, and provide greater predictability in cost and system performance.

The SME will also play a key role in the continued development of Microelectronics engineering design automation, ensuring automated design tools incorporate not only process performance and equipment sizing, but also lessons learned from fabrication, commissioning, operations, maintenance, reliability, lifecycle cost, and system optimization.

This position is intended for an experienced engineer who is motivated by technical leadership and influence and who enjoys solving difficult engineering problems, mentoring engineers, improving designs, and establishing engineering standards that can be deployed globally.

• Serve as a senior technical authority for complex semiconductor water and wastewater treatment systems.
• Provide hands‑on technical leadership to global process engineering teams during concept development, pre‑contract engineering, detailed design, commissioning, and system optimization.
• Guide engineers through technically challenging treatment scenarios, unusual wastewater characteristics, capacity constraints, and novel applications.
• Lead and participate in multidisciplinary technical design reviews and provide independent technical judgment when project teams encounter competing design alternatives or elevated technical risk.
• Support root‑cause analysis and resolution of complex process performance issues.
• Translate commissioning, startup, and operating experience into improved engineering practices and future designs.
• Provide technical support for critical customer discussions when advanced process engineering expertise is required.

• Perform independent…