Specialist, Facilities (Water & Wastewater Treatment Systems)
Originally posted 7 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role supports the safe, reliable, and compliant operation of critical utility systems within a semiconductor R&D and manufacturing facility.
What you'll do
- Serve as the technical owner for assigned water, wastewater, cooling, and mechanical utility systems.
- Monitor system performance, reliability, capacity, efficiency, and treatment effectiveness.
- Analyze operating data, trends, alarms, and analytical results to identify improvement opportunities.
- Troubleshoot equipment failures, process upsets, and system excursions.
- Ensure systems operate in accordance with environmental, health, and safety requirements.
- Lead or support capital projects, system upgrades, and equipment replacement initiatives.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Environmental Science, Facilities Management, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent industry experience.
- 10+ years of semiconductor industry experience.
- Experience supporting industrial water treatment, wastewater treatment, chemical treatment, high-purity water, cooling, or mechanical utility systems.
- Strong knowledge of pumps, piping, valves, instrumentation, filtration, chemical dosing, ion exchange, reverse osmosis, process controls, and analytical monitoring.
- Proven ability to troubleshoot complex utility systems using operating data, drawings, and field observations.
- Demonstrated commitment to safety, compliance, and operational excellence.
This role has been open 1 day — well below the 53-day median for Semiconductor Equipment Engineering roles.
Semiconductor Equipment Engineering · Manufacturing Equipment
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Open roles in category
3718
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Median days open
53 d
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Median salary
$126k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, and who else is hiring
| Metric | ASM International | All employers we track in this specialty (3718 roles · 82 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 158 | 3718 |
| Open roles in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family | 255 | 9729 · 107 employers |
| Median days open | 78 d | 53 d (+25 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $126k |
Who's hiring in this category
- Applied Materials · 613 open roles · median 52 d
- Lam Research · 545 open roles · median 43 d
- Micron Technology · 269 open roles · median 44 d
- KLA Corporation · 254 open roles · median 66 d
- ASML · 198 open roles · median 64 d
- ASM International (this employer) · 157 open roles · median 78 d
How we counted: 3718 open Semiconductor Equipment Engineering (Manufacturing Equipment) roles from 82 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 9 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family row. Figures refresh nightly.