Technician 4, Manufacturing Equipment Maintenance

Western Digital • San Jose, CA

2d • $72,000 - $96,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The Technician 4 performs routine and preventative maintenance on manufacturing tool sets, ensuring they operate at optimum levels and within specification. The role troubleshoots tool issues to support uptime and works with engineering, vendors, and other groups to improve reliability, reduce equipment failures and repair time, extend preventive-maintenance intervals, and resolve yield issues. The technician prepares data and documentation for pass-down meetings, interprets technical documentation, recommends process improvements, responds to inquiries, and follows all required safety policies and procedures. The position is based at WD’s San Jose Great Oaks Headquarters and involves semiconductor or high-volume manufacturing equipment maintenance.

Requirements

• Associate’s degree in electronics or industrial manufacturing, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Two or more years of hands-on equipment maintenance experience in the semiconductor or high-volume manufacturing industry.
• Strong foundation in pneumatic, electrical, and mechanical disciplines.
• Experience with semiconductor-like manufacturing tools, including the listed deposition, lithography, metrology, wet etch, electroplating, cleaning, and CMP equipment.
• For vacuum maintenance work: experience with PVD, CVD, ALD, RIE, IBE, IBD, and dry etch tools.
• For photo maintenance work: experience with scanners, steppers, CDSEM, metrology tools, and coat-and-develop tracks.
• For plate/wet etch maintenance work: experience with automated electroplating tools; single-wafer and batch wet etch tools; metrology tools; batch and single-wafer automated solvent strip tools; and Eco Snow CO2 cleaners.
• For CMP maintenance work: experience with CMP/polish tools, wafer cleaners, and metrology tools.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications.
• Knowledge and ability to perform routine and preventative maintenance on semiconductor tools and tool sets.
• Knowledge and ability to read complex schematics, mechanical drawings, vacuum diagrams, flow charts, OEM manuals, instructions, and tool guides.
• Ability to follow written or verbal instructions with minimal supervision.
• Ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing with contractors, consultants, employees, and management at all levels.
• Ability to work productively and collaboratively with employees and management at all levels.
• Ability to comply with safety policies and procedures and clean-room protocols and procedures.
• Demonstrated ability to resolve equipment maintenance issues quickly and efficiently.
• Demonstrated organizational, time-management, problem-solving, troubleshooting, analytical, and critical-thinking skills.
• Flexibility and ability to prioritize.

Responsibilities

• Perform routine and preventative maintenance on tool sets and ensure tools operate at optimum levels and within specification.
• Troubleshoot and resolve tool issues quickly and efficiently to maximize tool uptime.
• Partner with engineering, vendors, and other groups to improve tool reliability, reduce MTBF and MTTR, increase MTTPM, and resolve yield issues.
• Prepare data and documentation for daily and 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 team members, managers, and departments.
• Adhere to required safety policies and procedures.
• Perform other duties of a similar nature or level.

Benefits

• Paid vacation time and paid sick leave.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Life, accident, and disability insurance.
• Tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts.
• Employee assistance program.
• Voluntary benefits including supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident, and hospital indemnity coverage.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Transit benefits.
• Applause Program.
• Employee stock purchase plan.
• WD Savings 401(k) Plan.
• Potential eligibility for short-term incentive or sales incentive awards based on role and performance.
• Potential eligibility for the annual long-term incentive program, which may include restricted stock units or cash equivalents.
• Potential shift differential pay depending on assigned shift.
• Overtime pay eligibility for non-exempt employees, pursuant to company policy and applicable laws.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree