Technical Officer, E-beam

Priority may be given to the following designated employment equity groups: women, Indigenous Peoples* (First Nations, Inuit and Métis), persons with disabilities and racialized persons*.

• The Employment Equity Act , which is under review, uses the terminology Aboriginal peoples and visible minorities.

Candidates are asked to self-declare when applying to this hiring process.

City: Ottawa

Organizational Unit: Canadian Photonics Fabrication Centre

Classification: TO-3

Tenure: Term*

Duration: 1 Year

Language Requirements: English

Work arrangements: Due to the nature of the work and operational requirements, this position will require full-time physical presence at the NRC work location identified.

• Note:
  
  The intent of this hiring process is to fill various term positions for the night and weekend shifts.

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We are looking for Technical Officers to support the Canadian Photonics Fabrication Centre (CPFC) within NRC’s Emerging Technology and Photonics Research Centre portfolio. The Technical Officer is someone who shares the NRC core values of Integrity, Excellence, Respect, and Creativity.

The position will focus on providing process support for semiconductor prototype development and pre-commercial production in a class 100 – 1000 clean room facility environment.

The successful candidates will be involved in hands-on wafer fabrication activities while maintaining high standards of quality to support client demands. These candidates would be members of a team of technical specialists responsible for the performance of a wide range of semiconductor wafer fabrication processes. Processes relevant to this position include, but are not limited to; electron-beam (e-beam) lithography, plasma dry-etch, chemical wet-etch, and metrology processing on indium phosphide (InP) substrates for relevant client projects, but other processing may be assigned as required by supervisors.

All processing must be accomplished in accordance with instructions contained in the manufacturing execution system (MES) and the schedule set by the operations and planning teams.

The Government of Canada has decided to undertake a spin-off of the NRC's Canadian Photonics Fabrication Centre (CPFC) into a commercial entity with firmly Canadian foundations and with Canadian industrial development at its core.

For more information, visit Canadian Photonics Fabrication Centre .

Applicants must demonstrate within the content of their application that they meet the following screening criteria in order to be given further consideration as candidates:

Post-secondary education in Electronic Engineering Technology, or Scientific discipline related to the position or an appropriate combination of…