As a starting Hardware Assistant in the Bonding & Assembly team, you will spend the first year mostly by getting to know the high-tech tools in our cleanroom thoroughly.What you will doOur teams install, maintains and optimizes the performance of the most advanced tools in the world, which imec uses to develop the next generation of chips. Sooner than expected, you will get a lot of autonomy to plan and execute your work. While growing in your role, you will work on increasingly challenging repairs and optimizations.The FAB Engineering department, consisting of over 150 employees, is a part of the beating heart of our research institute, which is specialized in nano-electronics that develops technological solutions for ICT, healthcare, and energy applications. - You will be in charge of the installation, preventive maintenance, and repair and optimization of the process equipment. In collaboration with the manufacturers you will set up improvement projects, which you evaluate afterwards. - You look for opportunities to improve the efficiency and reduce the cost of maintaining the machines, without impacting their quality and availability. - You are a point of contact for technical questions about your equipment, and you perform first analyses if necessary to answer those questions. - You help to install new process equipment and make sure the technical warehouse has enough spare parts and consumable resources. - For all the above, you collaborate closely with the engineers of the equipment manufacturers and with your fellow process engineers. - You make sure the measurement data ends up in the correct location.- You work in a shift system (alternating between an early/late shift and one weekend out of three). You also have to know this: imec is an internationally pioneering R&D center. We collaborate with all the big electronics companies to find out how the chips of the future can be made. Key in this is our extremely advanced pilot production line for chips, which contains the process equipment you will work on. On this advanced equipment, we test our production processes. Only if those production processes work optimally and are stable, they will be transferred to the real chip factories.