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About the Role

Lead maintenance operations within a high-volume semiconductor manufacturing environment, focusing on shift execution, personnel leadership, safety compliance, tool performance, and achieving production targets while maintaining quality standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead and supervise maintenance technicians during assigned shift
• Work with operations to reach daily production targets including throughput, WIP management, and cycle time
• Ensure smooth shift handoff communication
• Respond to equipment excursions and coordinate with engineering and operations teams
• Escalate issues appropriately to minimize downtime and yield impact
• Monitor uptime metrics (availability, WIP load)
• Support troubleshooting of tool problems in conjunction with operations and engineering
• Ensure procedural compliance and process control adherence
• Coordinate maintenance schedules to minimize downtime
• Partner with engineering on continuous improvement initiatives
• Enforce cleanroom protocols and EHS standards
• Ensure documentation accuracy and shift reporting discipline
• Drive root cause analysis (5-Why, Fishbone) for excursions
• Maintain compliance with manufacturing and quality systems
• Coach and mentor team members
• Conduct performance discussions and provide feedback
• Manage shift staffing, attendance, and scheduling
• Promote a culture of accountability, safety, and continuous improvement

Requirements

• 5+ years of semiconductor manufacturing experience
• 2+ years in a leadership or supervisory role preferred
• Strong understanding of problem solving and decision-making methodologies
• Strong understanding of tool control strategies, including FDC and feed-back/feed-forward control
• Strong understanding of SPC and statistical analysis
• Experience in high-volume 200mm or 300mm fab environments
• Ability to work in a cleanroom and support the assigned shift schedule
• Experience ramping new tools or processes
• Familiarity with MES systems
• Proficiency in Excel

Skills

• AMAT and Novellus Deposition tools
• AMAT, LAM, and TEL Etchers
• KLA Corporation inspection/metrology tools
• ASML lithography tools and TEL tracks
• Daifuku AMHS systems

Location

• Minnesota
• Florida
• Texas

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• 5+ years of semiconductor manufacturing experience
• 2+ years in a leadership or supervisory role preferred

Education Level

• Associate or Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Materials Science, Physics, or related field

Salary/Compensations

• Competitive salary

Benefits

• 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 around the world by manufacturing U.S. made semiconductors essential for modern life.
• We are turning “science fiction” into everyday reality through technologies such as superconducting, 3D integrated circuits or computer chips, carbon nanotubes, photonic logic devices, micro electro-mechanical systems and other emerging device topologies.
• 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 employees who are entering the workforce for the first time, from the military, and a variety of 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.
• To request reasonable accommodations, to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact Human Resources at 952-851-5200 or Recruiting@SkyWatertechnology.com.
• 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.