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Western Digital

Makes hard drives for cloud and AI data centers

Technician 4 - Manufacturing Equipment Maintenance

Equipment MaintenanceConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeBayan Lepas, Penang, MalaysiaNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A Diploma or Advanced/Higher/Graduate Diploma in Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronic or Electromechanical Engineering, Electrical or Electronic Engineering, or equivalent.
  • Flexibility to work a 12-hour AWS shift and overtime as required by the team.
  • Knowledge of control systems or programmable logic controllers.
  • Knowledge of measurement tools such as multimeters and oscilloscopes.
  • Ability to study schematic or circuit diagrams and troubleshoot systems.
  • Understanding of failure mechanisms and ability to isolate, determine root causes, and repair failures.
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Windows software, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, and Forum Notes.
  • Familiarity with sputtering equipment or other vacuum systems.
  • Proficiency in troubleshooting mechanical, electrical, and control-system failures.
  • Strong understanding of safety protocols and regulations in a manufacturing environment.
  • Ability to communicate technical information effectively to colleagues and engineers.
  • Ability to collaborate with engineering, production, and quality teams.

Responsibilities

  • Perform routine preventive maintenance according to the preventive-maintenance schedule and conduct routine maintenance checks and services on production equipment.
  • Document routine preventive maintenance on checklists, record applicable data, and maintain completed checklists and histories in the tool maintenance system.
  • Inspect and maintain production machines to ensure optimal performance, and diagnose and repair mechanical, electrical, and control-system issues.
  • Document routine preventive maintenance and details of unscheduled failures in the system database.
  • Provide input to the Shift Coordinator or Equipment Engineer to improve preventive-maintenance cycle time, tool availability, quality and workmanship, and to reduce media scrap and cost of ownership.
  • Provide technical training and certification for junior technicians.
  • Support the Tool Owner and Equipment Engineer with machine conversion, upgrade, and improvement projects.

Desired Qualifications

  • Manufacturing-environment experience, especially with vacuum chamber systems.
  • Experience in sputtering or a machine-maintenance-related field.
  • Effective communication and relationship-building across Production, Process, Yield, and Quality teams.

About the Company

Western Digital

Makes hard drives for cloud and AI data centers

Western Digital, which goes by WD, designs and makes hard disk drives, mostly the high-capacity models that cloud and AI data centers use to store huge amounts of data cheaply. In 2013, its HGST unit shipped the first helium-filled hard drives, which fit more disks into each drive and use less power. Its drives store data on stacks of spinning magnetic disks, and the lineup runs from Ultrastar data center drives to WD Red and WD Purple drives for home servers and security cameras. WD makes its money selling these drives to cloud companies, PC makers, and retail shoppers. Western Digital was founded in 1970 and is based in San Jose, California, and in 2025 it spun off its flash memory business as Sandisk.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
San Jose, CA
Founded
1970

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