Technical Support Specialist II
Job Description
This role focuses on hands-on technical support to keep sophisticated equipment installed, running reliably, and repaired when issues arise.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate closely with the field service team to diagnose and repair assigned product lines quickly.
- Partner with Marketing, NPD, Applications, and OE to support technology roadmaps with service-related requirements and maintain support across the system lifecycle.
- Drive improvements in MTTR (mean time to repair) and MTBF (mean time between failure) by reviewing equipment downtime and failure trends.
- Diagnose and define work instructions for field service engineers covering:
- Service tools, repair, and installation
- Spares parts, including consumables
- Diagnostic and test procedures required to support systems
- Contribute primary input and develop sophisticated troubleshooting documentation.
- Validate sophisticated troubleshooting documentation and software.
- Provide feedback to product quality teams and analyze/initiate improvement projects on systems and subsystems as needed.
Requirements
- Education/Experience: High school diploma with 2+ years of relevant experience or equivalent military training; or Bachelor’s degree in Applied Physics, Electronics, or Electro-Mechanics with 0+ years of experience in a relevant field.
- Comfortable working with analytical equipment.
- Broad technical knowledge with practical, multidisciplinary troubleshooting skills.
- Experience with analytical equipment such as:
- Electron Microscopes
- Wafer Steppers
- Medical equipment (for example, MRI-scan)
- Pharmaceutical equipment
- Related semiconductor equipment
- Preferably experience with LDB.
- Technical writing: Strong skills.
- Experience working with demanding customers; understands customer relations.
- Self-starter with high productivity when not supervised.
- Project leader skills.
- Travel: 20% to 40% of working time.
- Language: Business proficiency in English (verbal and written). Other language skills are an asset.
Work Schedule
- Standard (Mon-Fri)
Environmental Conditions
- Office
Site Location
- Hillsboro, Oregon site (onsite)
How You’ll Get Here
- Education & Experience
- Knowledge, Skills, Abilities