I worked in a semiconductor plant. There isn’t any special skill to it. You have a list that you do and nowadays the robots actually do all the difficult work.

In my time, you had to check and calculate by hand the offsets for the lithography machines. Now with it being done in self-contained robots because of the radiation x-ray process, a person just manages the robots.

Also, why isn’t the new Intel plant being built having the same issues with qualified workers?

I personally think it’s stupid to build a high water using plant in the middle of a desert, when the area hasn’t ever monitored the water table.