Process Technician

Kforce's client in Tualatin, OR is seeking a Process Technician. This is a night shift role after completing training onsite for day shift. Responsibilities:

• Process Technicians assist senior engineers and technologists in developing processes on advanced semiconductor manufacturing equipment
• Execute passdowns from engineers which includes following a set of instructions, preparing FOUPS, running experiments and submitting wafers for metrology; Submission wafers for SEM work, retrieval of coupons post SEM work and verification of zero loss of material
• Daily passdown summaries and feedback to engineering; Good communication skills and able to notify process engineers with issues with passdowns and execute revised passdowns once errors are recovered
• Comfort with learning equipment software and process recipe structure; Basic troubleshooting of equipment issues and clearing of errors to continue passdowns or submit service requests for equipment maintenance
• Housekeeping of the work areas being worked at: submitting new wafers for pre-metrology and used wafers for reclaim
• Exporting data from equipment and metrology tools depositing in a database
• BA degree in Science or related field is Desired but not required
• Basic Microsoft Office experience
• Experience with metrology tools (process tools are very different - don't expect to have experience on what we have)
• Ability to learn quickly (any examples of how they picked up skills in past
• Training experinece would be helpful
• Basic knowledge of windows operating system and Microsoft office tools

• Wafers handling
• Clear passdowns - what is done and not
• Deposition Processing or Etch processing
• Metrology Tools; Onto nice to have
• Lam Process Tools or Novellus tools are a plus