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Depends on the role. There's a place nearby where they produce raw silicon. They are rated three of five stars on Famous_Job_Site, and they only hire through a
by bluedino 4y ago
Depends on the role.
There's a place nearby where they produce raw silicon. They are rated three of five stars on Famous_Job_Site, and they only hire through a temp service, and you can be there ten years before getting hired in directly. Rules like if you miss X days or are late Y times you get fired.
The worst job is probably poly breaker, where they have three shifts of people in protective suits that smash large pieces of silicon down with hammers.
Last I heard you get $14/hr. They are always hiring and nobody wants to work there.
https://imgur.com/a/OmqsEuM https://imgur.com/a/OmqsEuM
- dmitriy_ko 4y ago> poly breaker, where they have three shifts of people in protective suits that smash large pieces of silicon down with hammers Why is this done manually? wouldn't it be easy to automate?
- ElevenLathe 4y agoNo idea, but assuming this guy doesn't live in mid-Michigan, there's a plant here that hires people to do the same thing.
- bluedino 4y agoTalking about HSC ;)
- jpgvm 4y agoCorrect. Too many people think shiny Infinity Loop One office when chips come up. The reality is that chip designers are like 0.1% of the available roles. Fab workers/supervisors/maintenance etc are maybe 25% and the rest is in a very very long tail of supply chain involving lots of vary hazardous chemicals and shitty manual labour. I'm all for trying to diversify semi-conductor manufacturing but I really doubt Americans have it in them to do what the Chinese/Taiwanese currently do - specifically in the fabs themselves and in the chemical and poly silicate plants that support them.
- coredog64 4y agoThis ignores the fact that there’s a number of companies that currently fab semiconductors in the United States. Phoenix/Mesa is one epicenter, but there’s also some high tech fabs in Oregon and New York.
- jpgvm 4y agoYes, just the fabs. Where do they import the bulk of the chemicals and other inputs from?
- BostonEnginerd 4y agoMany of the chemicals are made domestically as shipping large quantities of pyrophoric chemicals like silane over oceans is challenging. Air Liquide, Air Products, Versum Materials, Brewer Science are all companies with significant US presence.
- smegger001 4y agothat seems like a job that should have been replaced by a machine. no way it more effective to have people breaking that with hammers than to have machine do it. also this country really needs stricter laws on what qualifies as a temp