Fab Safety and Emergency Response Expert (Japanese)

What You'll Do7

• Review existing safety content against real fab practice and Japanese regulatory expectations.
• Write original guidance on hazard controls for toxic and pyrophoric gases, HF, and wet chemical lines.
• Assess emergency response procedures, from gas alarm escalation through cleanroom evacuation and muster.
• Read and verify Japanese safety documents, including SDS, 作業手順書, and posted signage.
• Flag gaps or errors in safety documentation and explain the correction in Japanese and English.
• Answer structured review questions on fab facilities, sub-fab equipment, and electrical safety practice.
• Apply SEMI tool-safety standards when judging whether content reflects accepted industry practice.

Requirements7

• 3 or more years as an EHS engineer, ERT member, fab facilities or sub-fab engineer, electrical safety engineer, occupational health nurse, or EMT.
• Native Japanese speaker, or JLPT N1; N2 accepted when paired with Japanese fab experience.
• Able to read Japanese technical safety material such as SDS, 作業手順書, and safety signage.
• Hands-on time inside a running semiconductor fab, or fab-floor work for an equipment maker or gas supplier.
• Direct knowledge of toxic and pyrophoric gases, HF and wet chemicals, gas detection systems, and cleanroom evacuation.
• Fab-floor experience within the past 8 years.
• A background that goes beyond office, audit, or compliance EHS work; construction or general-manufacturing safety alone does not qualify without cleanroom or HPM exposure.

Preferred Qualifications6

• Handled a real fab incident such as a gas alarm, chemical spill, evacuation, or earthquake.
• Held an ERT or 自衛消防隊 lead role.
• Worked at a Japan fab or Japanese equipment maker: JASM/TSMC Kumamoto, Kioxia, Sony Semiconductor, Renesas, Rapidus, Micron Hiroshima, Tokyo Electron, SCREEN, Kokusai.
• Familiar with SEMI S2/S8/S22 tool-safety standards.
• Facilities experience with utilities, abatement, gas cabinets, or tool hook-up.
• Holds Japanese safety certifications such as 衛生管理者, 高圧ガス製造保安責任者, 危険物取扱者, 電気主任技術者 (電験), or 保健師.

Who Should Apply

The fit is a Japanese-speaking safety professional who has stood on a live fab floor within the last eight years and knows how a gas alarm or chemical spill gets handled from start to finish. Former ERT members, facilities and sub-fab engineers, and occupational health staff from Japanese fabs or equipment makers will recognize the work.

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