Manufacturing Engineer - Coating B-Shift

IDEX Corporation•Town of Henrietta, NY

1d•$78,200 - $117,200•Onsite

About The Position

The coating process engineer will be a key resource in advancing new products, new capabilities, maintaining production capability, and working on factory efficiency improvements within the optical coating department. This work will encompass the Semrock filter business as well as optical coatings for the optical systems, semiconductor and lasers businesses. The work will include design, deposition, measurement, and production control, as well as hands-on process development and training of technicians and associates.

Requirements

Minimum BS degree in Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Physics or a related discipline.
2 or more years of manufacturing or academic experience in optics or thin films
Experience in metrology of optical components, including spectrophotometry, reflectometry, interferometry, and optical microscopy
Familiarity with the basic design of optical interference coatings
Experience with optical assembly at the bread-board level
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Comfortable communicating within all levels of the organization, having the ability to customize message to the specific audience.
Demonstrated ability to create and present concise reports
Fluent with Microsoft office, including Excel, Powerpoint, and Access
Self-starter: will recognize and act on opportunities for improvement.
Data driven – able to create consensus and drive action trough the effective use of data and statistics.
Experience computer programming for physical modeling or data analysis.
Experience applying statistics to recognize and analyze trends

Nice To Haves

Experience with Six Sigma is a plus

Responsibilities

Contribute to the team effort to support the 5 days per week manufacturing operation. This includes involvement in difficult products flowing through manufacturing, triage and clearing of nonconforming work, and occasional off-hours point of contact support.
Take full responsibility for creating and maintaining the documentation of certain processes, as well as the training and certification of manufacturing personnel to those processes.
Conduct development and continuous improvement projects on several coating deposition platforms, including ion beam sputtering, magnetron sputtering, and ion-assisted evaporation.
Conduct routine data analysis and generate regularly reported metrics. In addition, “deep dive” data mining will be necessary for improvement projects.
Manage small project teams and be accountable for maintaining timelines and reporting on milestones.
Leverage the entire organization to solve problems and enable new products. This includes the manufacturing teams, planners, software engineers, design engineers, sales, quality.
Participate in technical events, seminars, and other educational activities to further enhance professional development; takes responsibility for professional growth and knowledge related to company’s technology, products, and marketplace; Eventually serve as subject-matter expert in applicable company technical platforms.