Equipment Tech, CMP

Responsible for performing advanced level repair, calibration, and preventative maintenance for semiconductor equipment, Diffusion area. Must demonstrate ability to take a leadership role in evaluating and providing maintenance requirements to ensure maximum availability of production equipment. Interfaces with Production and Engineers to identify and resolve process-related issues and provide technical guidance to other lower-level technicians. Determine methods and procedures for new assignments.

May be informal team leader, and lead/direct the activities of the area shift pass-downs, and set priorities based on production requirements for the rest of the team. Must be able to work on difficult tasks as an independent contributor and in a team environment.

Shift: Wednesday - Friday and every other Saturday 530pm - 530am

• Perform complex machinery problem solving of semiconductor equipment in production environment for CMP area and participate on problem solving teams.
• Ability to work under the direction of an Equipment Engineer and/or Engineering Manager to plan and execute improvement project initiatives.
• Able to develop his/her 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.
• Ability to perform diagnostic troubleshooting and repair malfunctioning equipment to component level (diagnostic to component level), as needed.
• Ability to take a lead role in resolving process issues and participate in yield investigations.
• Proper judgment is required in resolving problems and carrying out assignment and making recommendations.
• Participate and lead/direct ERT/Safety events, during the absence of supervision.
• Ensure all required parts are on order and follow up as required to minimize equipment MTTR.
• Must be able to work independently with minimal support.
• Viewed as a technical expert in more than one Production tool type

• Associate of Science degree with an emphasis in Electronics or equivalent.
• Minimum 7 years technical experience in the semiconductor industry.
• Must have demonstrated working knowledge of advanced electro-mechanical systems operations and maintenance and be able to work with minimal or no assistance.
• Must have 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: AMAT Mirra Mesa and Speed Fam Auriga platforms.
• OnTrak systems experience is also desirable