Senior Facilities Specialist - Water & Wastewater Systems

ASM; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

ASM is seeking an experienced Facilities Specialist to oversee water, wastewater, cooling, and mechanical utility systems at our Phoenix semiconductor facility. You will act as the technical owner, monitor performance, analyze data, and lead improvement efforts to ensure reliability and compliance.

You will coordinate maintenance, commissioning, vendor services, and spare parts while collaborating with EHS and operations teams. A strong safety and continuous-improvement mindset is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Environmental Science, Facilities Management, or related discipline.
• 10+ years of semiconductor industry experience.
• Experience with industrial water treatment, wastewater treatment, chemical treatment, high-purity water, cooling, or mechanical utility systems.
• Strong knowledge of pumps, piping, valves, instrumentation, filtration, chemical dosing, ion exchange, reverse osmosis, process controls, and analytical monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical owner for assigned water, wastewater, cooling, and mechanical utility systems.
• Monitor system performance, reliability, capacity, efficiency, and treatment effectiveness.
• Analyze operating data, trends, alarms, and analytical results to identify improvement opportunities.
• Troubleshoot equipment failures, process upsets, and system excursions.
• Maintain operating limits, alarm response guidance, and escalation plans.
• Support preventive and corrective maintenance activities.
• Participate in commissioning, startups, shutdowns, and return-to-service activities.
• Develop and improve maintenance procedures and emergency response plans.
• Coordinate vendor services including water treatment, cooling tower maintenance, and instrumentation calibration.
• Ensure availability of critical spare parts and consumables.
• Ensure systems operate in accordance with environmental, health, and safety requirements.
• Partner with EHS on permit compliance, inspections, monitoring, reporting, and corrective actions.
• Support wastewater sampling, discharge monitoring, and treatment performance evaluations.
• Participate in safety programs including chemical safety, confined space, hazardous waste handling, and lockout/tagout practices.
• Lead or support capital projects, system upgrades, and equipment replacement initiatives.
• Prepare project scopes, technical specifications, cost estimates, and schedules.
• Review engineering drawings, P&IDs, process flow diagrams, and vendor proposals.
• Drive initiatives focused on water conservation, wastewater reduction, system reliability, and sustainability improvements.
• Manage contractor and vendor activities to ensure safe and successful execution.
• Maintain procedures, specifications, drawings, maintenance records, and performance documentation.
• Develop training materials and troubleshooting guides for operations and maintenance personnel.
• Document system changes, lessons learned, and corrective actions.

Skills

Water treatment

Wastewater treatment

Process controls

Instrumentation

Troubleshooting

Safety compliance

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related technical discipline

Tools

PLCs

SCADA

P&IDs

Job description

ASM is seeking an experienced Facilities Specialist to oversee water, wastewater, cooling, and mechanical utility systems at our Phoenix semiconductor facility. You will act as the technical owner, monitor performance, analyze data, and lead improvement efforts to ensure reliability and compliance.

You will coordinate maintenance, commissioning, vendor services, and spare parts while collaborating with EHS and operations teams. A strong safety and continuous-improvement mindset is required.