Job Description
Title:
Engineering Technician III
Job Class Code:
4331
Summary:
Function & Scope: To perform highly skilled technical support tasks on semiconductor processing equipment in a clean room environment. Responsible for repair and maintenance of processing equipment, tool installations, understanding infrastructure requirements, tool/process qualification, maintaining clean room environment, interface with engineers and clean room users, vendor interface, trouble shooting, and parts requisition.
Essential Functions:
Typical Essential Functions include but are not limited to the following:
- Hands-on repair and maintenance of tools, (requires lifting up to 35 Ibs and moving equipment / tools).
- Specify infrastructure requirements for tool installation Train users on proper tool operation techniques Prepare work orders for infrastructure support Develop and execute PM schedules Support tool and infrastructure safety requirements.
- Develop operating procedures for processing tools.
- Vendor interface for repairs and maintenance guidelines.
- Maintain clean room environment.
- Develop modifications for improvement of existing equipment.
- Interface with research scientists, research engineers, and faculty members.
- Hands-on infrastructure support.
- Chemical handling and waste disposal Gas cylinder handling and LiqN2
Marginal Functions:
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Supervision:
Received: General Supervision: Incumbent develops own ways to effectively perform a variety of duties or performs complex duties within established policy guidelines; responsible for a defined set of assignments, expected to determine and create procedures to set priorities and meet goals.
Given: N/A
Education:
Required: High School graduate or GED, supplemented by technical training related to semiconductor processing equipment college-level courses in Physics, Electrical Engineering and related disciplines, or completion of Associate Degree in Electronics.
Preferred: N/A
Experience:
Required: Minimum ten years hands-on experience in the repair and maintenance of sophisticated semiconductor processing equipment and associated infrastructure support.
Preferred: More than ten years of the above experience with expertise on thermal, plasma, metallization, wet chemistry, and lithography tools.
Other Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
Working knowledge of Equipment: Diffusion furnaces, LPCVD, PECVD, sputter, evaporation, spinners, developers, hoods, metrology, plasma, vacuum pumps, turbo, and cryo.
Special Job Requirements (such as hours, accuracy, special equipment and/or working conditions):
Clean room and support chases. Work requires 80% of one's time in the clean room environment in
clean room attire.
Other:
If this is a supervisory position, the incumbent is expected to complete required supervisory training; orient, train and develop subordinates; provide appropriate coaching, guidance and supervision to subordinates; and complete annual performance evaluations.
Specific job requirements or physical location of some positions allocated to this classification may render the position security sensitive; thereby subject to the provisions of Section 51.215 Texas Education Code.
Responsible for duties as assigned relating to internal controls including safe-guarding of department assets, reliability of department financial information, and compliance with applicable laws, regulations, policies and procedures.
Any qualifications to be considered as equivalents, in lieu of stated minimums, require the prior written approval of the Assistant Vice President, Human Resources Management.
Last Updated: August 28, 2008
