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Technical Support Specialist II


Job Location:

Hillsboro, IL - USA

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 26 July 2026 (30+ days ago)
Application Deadline: 25 November 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

When you join us at Thermo Fisher Scientific youll be part of a smart driven team that shares your passion for exploration and discovery. With revenues of more than $24 billion and the largest investment in R&D in the industry we give our people the resources and opportunities to make significant contributions to the world.

Location/Division Specific Information

Within the Materials and Structural Analysis Division (MSD) we enable customers to find meaningful answers to questions that accelerate breakthrough discoveries and ultimately change the world. The Semiconductor business unit crafts manufactures and supports a broad range of high-performance microscopy workflows on wafers and single chips that provide images and answers in the micro- nano- and picometer scales. We combine hardware and software expertise in electron and ion microscopy with deep application knowledge in electronics markets and our worldwide Electron Microscopy employees are dedicated to our customers pursuit of discovery and resolution to global challenges.

How will you make an impact

The Technical Support Specialist II is responsible for supporting the installation uptime and repair of sophisticated equipment and systems. This includes working with NPD (New Product Development) Applications and OE (Operations Engineering) on new and existing product developments development of sophisticated troubleshooting methods and leading product and process improvements.

This position will sit at our Hillsboro Oregon site.

What will you do

  • Partner closely with the field service team to quickly diagnose and repair assigned product lines.
  • Partner with Marketing NPD Applications and OE in developing technology roadmaps to bring in the service related requirements and to sustain support through the life of the system.
    • Influence and drive meant time to repair (MTTR) and mean to between failure (MTBF) by examining equipment downtime and failures to improve overall performance
    • Diagnosis define and build work instruction for field service engineers on:
    • service tools repair and installation
    • spares parts (including consumables)
    • all diagnostic and test procedures required for support of systems
  • Provide feedback to product quality teams analyze and initiate improvement projects on systems and subsystems as required.
  • Gives primary input or develops sophisticated troubleshooting documentation. Validates service sophisticated troubleshooting documentation and software.

How will you get here

Education & Experience

  • High school diploma with 2 years of relevant experience or equivalent military training;ORBachelors degree in Applied Physics Electronics or Electro-Mechanics with 0 years of experience in a relevant field.
  • Comfortable in working with analytical equipment.
  • All-around technical knowledge and practical skills Multidisciplinary trouble shooting skills.
  • Experience with analytical equipment (electronics software physics mechanics) such as Electron Microscopes Wafer Steppers Medical Equipment (e.g. MRI-scan) pharmaceutical equipment or related semiconductor equipment.
  • Preferably experience with LDB.

Knowledge Skills Abilities

  • Strong technical writing skills.
  • Working with demanding customers and understands the importance of customer relations.
  • Self-starter who is also highly productive when not supervised.
  • Project leader skills.
  • Traveling (20% - 40% of working time).
  • Must have a business proficiency in English (verbal and written)
  • Other language skills are an asset.

At Thermo Fisher Scientific each one of our 100000 extraordinary minds has a unique story to tell. Join us and contribute to our singular missionenabling our customers to make the world healthier cleaner and safer.


Required Experience:

IC


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