Wafer Polishing Engineer

Project

Work done for a product or program.

• Tune double-side and final polish recipes for flatness and roughness.
• Control slurry, pad and chemistry effects on surface quality.
• Run wafer cleaning processes to meet particle and metal targets.
• Analyse nanotopography and haze data for polishing issues.
• Reduce surface defects such as scratches and light point defects.
• Qualify polishing consumables and tools.
• Support customer surface specification reviews.

Function

Work that keeps the discipline running: methods, tools, suppliers and people.

• Maintain the policies, processes and tools of the function.General
• Keep the function compliant with legal, financial and regulatory requirements.General
• Report the function's performance and improve it over time.General

Project

1. Produce and hand over the role's key deliverables
   • Polishing and cleaning recipes
   • Surface quality reports
   • Consumable qualification records
   • Customer quality responses
2. Support programsGeneral
   • Agree what each program needs
   • Deliver in time for milestones
3. Manage issuesGeneral
   • Track requests to closure
   • Escalate risks

Function

1. Run the functionGeneral
   • Maintain policies and processes
   • Keep records and controls
2. ImproveGeneral
   • Report performance
   • Lead improvement work