Job Description

Overview

The Field Service/Start-Up Engineer position requires extensive travel and involves troubleshooting and repairing semiconductor processing equipment. Candidates should possess strong mechanical aptitude and excellent communication skills.

Responsibilities

  • Performs on-site service and repair of semiconductor processing equipment
  • Troubleshoots equipment problems
  • Maintains records and reports as required
  • Coordinates activities with peers, supervisor(s) and customers to minimize equipment downtime and interruptions
  • Orders and installs parts
  • Responds to emergency service calls as required
  • Instructs customer operating technicians on system operation and maintenance
  • Performs upgrades and modifications to equipment as needed
  • Remains current on equipment/tools through appropriate training, manuals, factory periodicals, and other relevant materials
  • Responsible for the upkeep, maintenance and security of company property including vehicles, tools, etc.
  • Maintains standards of conduct acceptable to both TEA and customers to maintain credentials for being on customer site(s)

Requirements

  • Associates degree in electronics, engineering, or other applicable field of study; Bachelors Degree in Engineering or Technology preferred
  • 2+ years previous experience in maintenance, repair, and troubleshooting of semiconductor capital equipment
  • Excellent customer interface skills is required
  • Mechanical aptitude is required as well as an ability to use appropriate tools
  • Thorough understanding of technical issues involving the maintenance, repair and/or installation of company equipment and company procedures are required

Additional Information

  • Location: Chandler AZ 85224 USA
  • Duration: 12 Months
  • Job duties are often performed in confined areas in a clean room environment
  • Physical demands include lifting/carrying objects up to 50 pounds and may require bending/stooping/crawling/climbing
  • Occasional travel to Client factories, training facilities and customer locations may be required
  • A clean room garment may be required to be worn for lengthy periods of time
  • PPE is required including consistent wearing of safety glasses, safety shoes and a bump cap
  • Job duties may require walking up to and in excess of 10,000 steps and walking up and down multiple flights of stairs per shift (12 hours)

How this job compares in Chandler, AZ

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs in Chandler, AZ currently run a median of $28/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $24–$36/hr across 11 postings with published pay. That median is a reasonable floor to anchor on when a recruiter asks what you're looking for.

The local market in Chandler, AZ

We're tracking 61 other active welding openings in Chandler, AZ right now, from 32 different employers. 22 of them were added in the last week. Across Arizona as a whole we're tracking 500 other active welding openings from 274 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Chandler, or widen the search to Arizona.

Radiant Systems Inc currently has 2 other openings live in Arizona, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Arizona at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Sundt Construction (20), EZARC (19), and Welding Shop in Phoenix, AZ (15). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Arizona, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are El Mirage at $38/hr, Mesa at $33/hr, and Phoenix at $30/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

Similar openings near Chandler, AZ

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Field Service/Start-Up Engineer figures were last recalculated when this page was built.