Wafer Manufacturing Process Technician

Summary

Join Western Digital as a Process Technician and become the primary interface between manufacturing, maintenance, and engineering teams, ensuring consistent high-quality wafer production. Monitor tooling performance, identify processing issues, and resolve work-in-progress delays. Contribute to tooling/processing issue resolution, implement changes, and train lower-level operators. This role requires knowledge of semiconductor wafer manufacturing processes and statistical process control. Preferred qualifications include experience with Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing, and SQL/VBA. Western Digital offers a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package.

Requirements

• Knowledge and familiarity of semiconductor wafer manufacturing processes (thin film deposition, ion mill, reactive ion etch, electroplating, photolithography, metrology, sputter etch, sputter deposition) and logistics
• Knowledge of Statistical Process Control systems, applications and rules
• Ability to extract, summarize, interpret and present process data
• Ability to apply process data to decision making
• History of problem solving; able to drive problems to resolution
• Excellent communication skills, verbal and written

Responsibilities

• Function as the primary interface between the manufacturing, maintenance, and process and equipment engineering teams to ensure the consistent production of high-quality wafers
• Monitor the performance of tooling used in the manufacturing process and help to identify processing issues affecting output or product quality
• Be responsible for the cycle time within their area and resolve any WIP that is delayed or on hold
• Be directly involved in the resolution of tooling or processing issues and recommend, document and implement changes at the direction of the appropriate engineering group
• Play a vital role in the training and certification of lower-level operators

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of MESA or similar Shop floor Control Systems
• Knowledge and familiarity of Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing Principles and DMAIC processes
• Proficiency or experience with SQL or similar query languages
• Proficiency or experience with VBA, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Experience with Project Management applications
• Leadership qualities and experience
• Bachelors of Science in Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Materials Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Data Analysis or Statistics, Chemistry or Physics

Benefits

• Paid vacation time
• Paid sick leave
• Medical/dental/vision insurance
• Life, accident and disability insurance
• Tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts
• Employee assistance program
• Other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity
• Tuition reimbursement
• Transit
• The Applause Program
• Employee stock purchase plan
• The Western Digital Savings 401(k) Plan
• Short-Term Incentive (STI) Plan
• Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program
• Restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents
• RSU awards are also available to eligible new hires
• Overtime pay
• Shift differential pay