About the Role
SkyWater is seeking a Facilities Engineer in Austin to provide technical guidance and expertise for critical systems including cooling, HVAC, hot water, compressed air, vacuum, and scrubbing. This role involves maintaining equipment, coordinating with contractors, ensuring preventative maintenance, and managing complex projects from concept to commissioning.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical guidance to technicians and engineers
- Serve as technical expert for cooling systems (chillers, glycol chillers, cooling towers, process cooling water, water treatment)
- Serve as technical expert for HVAC systems (FTU’s, make-up air handler units, air flow patterns, cleanroom filters, DX units)
- Maintain a clear understanding of requirements for cleanroom sustainment (characterization, instrumentation, filters, and general materials)
- Serve as technical expert for hot water systems (boilers), compressed air system, and process vacuum
- Serve as technical expert for scrubbing systems and general exhaust
- Maintain equipment in respective systems, including contractor coordination
- Review and ensure preventative maintenance is completed to specification and schedule
- Implement or modify preventative maintenance plans
- Actively support department meetings, capital planning, and expense budgeting
- Perform SPC monitoring in accordance with facilities specifications
- Lead process changes through the process control board as needed
- Conduct root cause analysis on incidents
- Manage complex capital and expense projects from concept to commissioning
- Work within defined technical processes and procedures
- Initiate and drive continuous improvements
- Adapt and move quickly to accomplish goals
- Uphold area upkeep and 5S principles
- Adhere to environmental health and safety policies
- Complete job hazard assessments with contractors and internal teams
- Collaborate cross-departmentally and escalate as required
- Communicate clearly and effectively
- Maintain and create standard operating procedures
- Train operations on SOPs and LOTO
- Perform detail-oriented record keeping and reporting
Requirements
- 4 Year Technical degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent discipline
- 8-12 years of work experience
- Ability to at times work in a cleanroom environment
- Ability to work in a manufacturing setting that includes bending or crouching
Skills
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite
- Proficiency in AutoCAD
- Clear understanding of requirements behind sustaining a cleanroom
- Clear and effective communication
Location
- Austin
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 8-12 years
Education Level
- 4 Year Technical degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent discipline
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Opportunity to participate in incentive plans
- Employee financial benefits
- 401 (k) match
- Life insurance
- Benefit eligibility day one
- Medical
- Dental
- Mental health benefits
- Vision
- Legal planning
- Short-term disability
- Long-term disability
- Paid time off
- Paid holidays
- On-site cafeteria
- Fitness facility
- Self-serve market
About the Company
- SkyWater's ingenuity helps improve lives by manufacturing U.S. made semiconductors essential for modern life.
- We are turning 'science fiction' into everyday reality through advanced technologies.
- We manufacture products for aerospace and defense, medical, automotive, consumer, and industrial markets.
- Our customers include emerging leaders who rely on our intellectual property security and quality manufacturing services.
- SkyWater's values of Integrity, Excellence, Collaboration, Empowerment and Growth Mindset guide us to cultivate an empowered, learning environment.
- We invest in developing highly skilled, dedicated employees and support those entering the workforce for the first time, from the military, and from diverse educational backgrounds.
Equal Opportunity
- EOE, including disability/vets
- SkyWater complies with federal and state disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities unless doing so would cause an undue hardship.
- Alternative methods of applying for employment are available to individuals unable to submit an application through this site because of a disability.
- We will never ask applicants to pay fees, purchase equipment or gift cards, or provide financial information before a formal offer of employment has been accepted.
- If you receive a suspicious communication claiming to represent our company, please verify its authenticity by contacting our recruitment team at recruiting@skywatertechnology.com before responding.
