About the role
AI summarisedThe Contamination Control & ESD Technician supports semiconductor manufacturing by ensuring cleanroom conditions and ESD protections meet standards. This role involves environmental monitoring, ESD audits, equipment qualification, and contamination investigations in a fast-paced fab environment.
IDMFull-timeGeneral
Key Responsibilities
- Perform routine cleanroom environmental monitoring, including airborne particle measurements, AMC sampling, metal contamination checks, and environmental logging.
- Conduct ESD compliance checks, such as wrist strap and footwear testing, equipment grounding verification, workstation audits, and point‑to‑point resistance checks.
- Assist engineers with tool and material qualifications, ensuring all new equipment, spare parts, and consumables meet contamination and ESD requirements before release to production.
- Support contamination and ESD excursion investigations by collecting samples, gathering data, performing preliminary checks, and documenting observations accurately.
- Carry out scheduled preventive maintenance and calibration for environmental and ESD monitoring instruments to ensure consistent performance.
- Maintain detailed and accurate documentation, checklists, and records to support process traceability and audit compliance.
- Perform cleanroom protocol checks, ensuring proper gowning, material handling, housekeeping, and contamination‑control standards are followed.
- Report abnormal conditions promptly and escalate potential contamination or ESD risks to engineers or supervisors.
- Collaborate with Manufacturing, Equipment, Facilities, and Engineering teams to support daily fab operations and ensure compliance across production areas.
- Adhere to all EHS, cleanroom, and company safety requirements while maintaining a high standard of workplace discipline.
- Participate in continuous improvement activities, offering suggestions to improve contamination control and ESD practices.
Requirements
- Nitec/Higher Nitec/Diploma in Electrical, Electronics, Mechatronics, Chemical Process, or a related technical field; equivalent hands‑on experience in a manufacturing or semiconductor environment is also accepted.
- Ability to work in a semiconductor cleanroom environment, following gowning, contamination‑control, and safety protocols.
- Strong attention to detail with the ability to follow standard operating procedures and complete tasks accurately and consistently.
- Good communication skills and the ability to work effectively within cross‑functional teams.
- Comfortable working in a fast‑paced, dynamic semiconductor fab environment with shifting priorities.
- Willingness to learn, adapt, and take ownership of assigned tasks with positive attitude and strong teamwork mindset.
- Experience with environmental monitoring tools or ESD test equipment is an added advantage.
- Able to work on 12 hours rotating shift (including night shift)
