Senior Equipment Maintenance Technician - CMP/Plating

Company Description

At Western Digital, our vision is to power global innovation and push the boundaries of technology to make what you thought was once impossible, possible.

At our core, Western Digital is a company of problem solvers. People achieve extraordinary things given the right technology. For decades, we’ve been doing just that—our technology helped people put a man on the moon and capture the first-ever picture of a black hole.

We offer an expansive portfolio of technologies, HDDs, and platforms for business, creative professionals, and consumers alike under our Western Digital®, WD®, WD_BLACK™, and SanDisk® Professional brands.

We are a key partner to some of the largest and highest-growth organizations in the world. From enabling systems to make cities safer and more connected, to powering the data centers behind many of the world’s biggest companies and hyperscale cloud providers, to meeting the massive and ever-growing data storage needs of the AI era, Western Digital is fueling a brighter, smarter future.

Today’s exceptional challenges require your unique skills. Together, we can build the future of data storage.

Job Description

  ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Perform scheduled and unscheduled maintenance on assigned CMP or Plating equipment. 
• Consistently conduct highly complex troubleshooting and repair of down equipment to root cause of failure in a timely and efficient manner in accordance with departmental objectives.  
• Notify supervisor and equipment engineers of parts requirements, repeated problems and equipment deficiencies. Provide solutions when repeated problems and equipment deficiencies occur and when potential problems may occur.
• Perform preventive maintenance in accordance with PM specifications and applicable safety procedures.
• Thoroughly and accurately document the performance of preventive and corrective maintenance.
• Give accurate and detailed end of shift pass-downs of equipment problems; found and repairs performed.
• Work on assignments that may be highly complex in nature where judgment and analysis are required in solving problems.
• Initiate continuous improvement activities with equipment engineering, vendors and other cross functional groups to improve productivity, cost savings and yield enhancement.
• Provide input to facilitate improvements in equipment maintenance key processes, techniques, and procedures.
• Continuously improve required skill sets through formal training or through resolving issues while on the job.
• Occasionally works on extremely complex assignments.
• Follows established policies, processes, guidelines, methods to accomplish work.
• Consistently works on assignments requiring high degree of initiative to resolve.
• Understands implication of work and decisions and makes recommendations for solutions.
• Collaborates with others within their department, and in other departments, on solutions that may affect the business.

Qualifications

REQUIRED: 

• AA Degree Electronics, Computer Engineering. Certificate from a vocational or trade school in computer technology or computer hardware maintenance, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 8+ years supporting and repairing related equipment.
• Expert level knowledge of wafer fabrication practices, techniques and equipment. Good technical understanding of hard disk drives and their components.
• Read and understand blue prints, wiring diagrams, schematics and related instructions. 
• Apply understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagram form.
• Adapt techniques and practices to situation appropriately.
• Understands implications of work.
• Makes recommendations for solutions.
• Use a wide variety of common bench electronic equipment and specialized equipment.
• Use standard electronic assembly tools and materials.
• CMP or Plating is background is preferred. 

Additional Information

Western Digital is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees and will not discriminate against any applicant or employee based on their race, color, ancestry, religion (including religious dress and grooming standards), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), gender (including a person’s gender identity, gender expression, and gender-related appearance and behavior, whether or not stereotypically associated with the person’s assigned sex at birth), age, national origin, sexual orientation, medical condition, marital status (including domestic partnership status), physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, protected medical and family care leave, Civil Air Pat