About This Role
This role involves performing routine and preventative maintenance on manufacturing equipment, ensuring tools operate at optimum levels and within specifications. The technician will troubleshoot and resolve tool issues efficiently to maximize uptime, collaborating with engineering and vendors to improve reliability and resolve yield issues.
Responsibilities
- Perform routine and preventative maintenance on tool sets
- Ensure tools are performing at optimum levels and within specification
- Troubleshoot and resolve tool issues quickly and efficiently to ensure optimum tool up time
- Partner with engineering, vendors, or other groups to improve tool reliability, reduce Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF), Mean Time to repair (MTTR), increase Mean Time to Preventative Maintenance (MTTPM), and resolve yield issues
- Prepare data or documentation for daily/weekly pass down meetings
- Read and interpret schematics, mechanical drawings, manuals, and tool repair guides
- Recommend improvements or changes to existing processes in support of continuous improvement initiatives
- Respond to inquiries from other team members, managers, or departments
- Adhere to all safety policies and procedures as required
- Perform other duties of a similar nature or level
Requirements
- Associate’s degree in electronics, industrial manufacturing, and/or equivalent relevant experience
- Two years or more of hands-on experience working in equipment maintenance in the semiconductor or high-volume manufacturing industry
- Strong foundation in pneumatic, electrical, and mechanical disciplines
- Strong experience with semiconductor-like manufacturing tools such as AMAT Endura, Veeco, Novellus, Canon Anelva, ASML Scanners, Nikon Steppers, KLA Metrology, DNS coat and develop tracks, Wet Etch tools – Amerimade, RENA, Electroplating tools – Tosetz, Class One, Eco Snow CO2 cleaners, AMAT CD SEM, CMP – AMAT, Strasbaugh, Ebara, Park Systems AFM, Nanometrics metrology tools
- Vacuum Maintenance Technician Experience with PVD, CVD, ALD, RIE, IBE, IBD and Dry Etch tools
- Photo Maintenance Technician Experience with Scanners and Steppers, CDSEM, Metrology tools and coat and develop tracks
- Plate / Wet Etch Maintenance Technician Experience – automated electroplating tools, wet etch tools (single wafer and batch), metrology tools, automated solvent strip tools (batch and single wafer), Eco Snow CO2 cleaners and metrology tools
- Chemical Mechanical Polish (CMP) Maintenance Technician Experience – CMP / Polish tools, wafer cleaners, and metrology tools
- Proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office Applications
- Knowledge and ability to perform routine and preventative maintenance on various semiconductor tools and tool sets
