Equipment Maintenance Technician

Infinera; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the semiconductor industry is seeking an Equipment Maintenance Technician in Sunnyvale. This role involves maintaining wafer fab equipment, ensuring reliability, and supporting training for junior technicians. Applicants should have 5 years of manufacturing experience, an AA degree, and the ability to troubleshoot effectively.

Benefits

Paid leave

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

401(k) plan

Life and disability insurance

Qualifications

• 5 years in a manufacturing environment with hands-on experience.
• Education: Minimum AA Degree preferred.
• Experience with chemical maintenance and equipment reliability.

Responsibilities

• Preventive maintenance on wafer fabrication equipment.
• Troubleshooting and creating guides for root causes.
• Support chemical pouring and equipment repair.

Skills

Troubleshooting

Mechanical stability improvement

Safety procedure adherence

Education

AA Degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Applied Materials P5000

Microsoft Office

Job description

CA Pay Range (Hourly):

$32.31 - $60.00

At Infinera, your base pay is one part of your total compensation package. Your actual base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location. This role may be eligible for equity grants, discretionary bonuses, or commission payments. The amount of these incentives is based on the terms of the Company’s incentive plans, the Company’s financial performance, and/or individual employee job performance.

Infinera also offers paid leave, medical,

dental, and vision coverage, 401(k),

life, and disability insurance to eligible employees.

Title: Euipment Maintenance Technician

Location: Sunnyvale, CA

Job description:

Maintain/sustain manufacturing equipment and help to improve equipment availability/reliability. Prepare/schedule preventive maintenance work, pouring/changing chemicals when needed to backup chemical technicians, including replacing parts to meet manufacturing requirements. Help with equipment repair/PM/upgrade/install, procedures, and safety guidelines/assistance, including training less experienced maintenance technicians in standardizing troubleshooting techniques as needed. Work closely with manufacturing personnel and equipment/process engineers to make adjustments in matters relating to equipment repair/PM/chemical pouring, procedures, and safety guidelines/assist and help others troubleshoot equipment. Daily hands-on involvement with tools in the following areas: wet etch, dry etch, photo, and metrology. Overnight support of wafer fab facilities equipment is required as needed. Follow all Safety/LOTO procedure guidelines.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Responsibilities include preventive maintenance and repair of wafer fabrication equipment, including plasma etchers, metal deposition tools, wet processing tools, photoresist coater & developer tracks, and metrology.
• Create troubleshooting guides specifically for repeated root cause diseases.
• Help create/adjust min/max equipment spare parts for wafer fab as needed.
• Routinely review all equipment check sheets to ensure accuracy to meet ISO9000/14001 audit requirements.
• Help sustain and improve preventive maintenance work throughout the Fab. Occasionally required to work on different shifts for coverage or training purposes.
• Help cover the fab with chemical pouring/changing when the chemical technician is unavailable when/if requested.
• Help implement desirable modifications in procedures, methods, and processes within the areas of responsibility. Estimate requirements and take action accordingly.
• Help the stockroom clerk with equipment part number information and get quotes as needed.
• Helped with daily operations meetings with PowerPoint presentations for the equipment related to tool downs and required preventive maintenance work for the day or the week as needed.
• Help to identify significant contributors to mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, vacuum RF, or hydraulic system stability and provide solutions to improve the overall equipment performance.
• Publish progress reports as needed.
• Must perform job functions at a high level with minimum supervision.
• Must be able to lift 50 lbs.
• Expected to help create written PM/LOTO/Troubleshooting Guide procedures and mentor/train less experienced maintenance technicians as needed.
• Work closely with other equipment maintenance technicians to help improve tool uptime/reliability and reduce overall extended (>24h) unplanned tool downs.
• Hands-on operation and maintenance of process tools and following wafer fab protocol procedures.
• Familiarity with safety procedures and working with hazardous materials is required (LOTO, high voltage, acids, solvents, PPE, MSDS, etc. History of overnight coverage preferred.
• Must be on standby for Pouring/mixing/refilling chemicals to help when production needs it done the most.
• Performs other duties as required.

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE

Education: Minimum AA Degree or equivalent working experience preferred.

Experience: 5 Years in a manufacturing environment and hands-on experience as a maintenance/chemical technician. (Hands-on experience with Applied Materials P5000 Preferred).

SPECIAL CHALLENGES

• Must be able to wear a respirator.
• Forklift training and keeping up-to-date certification as required by safety.
• Must be flexible in helping to sustain the Fab on preventive maintenance work, chemical pouring, and following all safety guidelines.
• Must be an ERT Member.
• Removal of hazardous material as needed.
• Work on holidays to help manufacturing as needed.
• History of overnight coverage preferred.
• Desired skills include understanding statistical process control, Microsoft Office, and reading electrical schematics, blueprints, etc.
• Strong Applied Materials P5000 Knowledge

#LI-SR2

“This position requires direct or indirect access to certain confidential information, hardware, software, technology, or technical information (referred to here as “Export-Controlled Information”) controlled under the U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and/or the U.S. Export Administration Regulations (EAR). All personnel in this position must be eligible to or be able to obtain authorization from the appropriate agency to access applicable Export-Controlled Information. The U.S. Department of Commerce currently requires a foreign person with a most recent citizenship or permanent residency of Sudan, Ukraine, or a country currently designated in Country Group D:1, E:1 or E:2 (Supplement No. 1 to Part 740, Title 15) to have an export control license to access our Export-Controlled Information, unless they meet certain exemptions provided under U.S. export control laws and regulations. The list of applicable countries in Country Group D:1, E:1 or E:2 may be updated by the U.S. government from time to time. The current processing time for an export control license is approximately 4 to 6 months.

Your employment or engagement with Infinera shall be contingent on verifying your eligibility or requirement for obtaining a necessary license and/or authorization from the appropriate agency. You will be required to provide certain information for export control compliance assessment purposes, and your information will be reviewed by Infinera's hiring and export control teams to ensure compliance with the U.S. export control laws and regulations. Infinera will collect necessary documents (such as proof of citizenship etc.) to assess license/authorization requirements if you are offered and accept the position.”

Infinera is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Infinera complies with all applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment.