Manufacturing Technician - 1st shift

Coherent Corp. Vietnam•Budd Lake, NJ

2d•$23 - $33•Onsite

About The Position

Coherent Corp. is seeking an experienced Manufacturing Technician to join its Operations group in Budd Lake, New Jersey. The role fabricates and finishes optical crystals and components using manual and automated grinding, lapping, and polishing equipment. Work includes setting up equipment, fixturing parts, preparing tooling and abrasives, inspecting and measuring products, documenting results, and following established safety and quality procedures. The technician also performs thin-film coating operations, optical inspection, and assembly of photonic products such as optical isolators and modulators. The position supports engineering builds, new product introduction, process qualification, investigations, training, and continuous improvement while meeting production, quality, yield, and schedule requirements. The position is 100% on-site in Budd Lake, NJ, in an industrial production environment. It includes regular use of manufacturing equipment and machinery, as well as computers and other office equipment. Employees must follow site and corporate EHS requirements and applicable quality and environmental management standards.

Requirements

High school diploma.
Five years of experience in a complex, high-mix environment.
Strong mechanical aptitude and troubleshooting skills for automated equipment.
Ability to stand for prolonged periods in a production environment.
Ability to lift and move up to 40 pounds occasionally on the manufacturing floor.
Ability to comply with task-specific safety requirements, including safety shoes, fire-retardant suits, full-face respirators, and hot-work PPE when handling molten material in a furnace.
Ability to sit for extended periods while working on a computer or in meetings and to use hands and fingers for typing, writing, and handling documents.

Responsibilities

Saw, core, grind, drill, shape, lap, and dimension optical crystals using precision equipment, tooling, and fixtures.
Prepare polishing tools and slurries and polish crystals to specified dimensions, surface finish, flatness, parallelism, radius, and optical quality.
Clean and fixture components; verify part numbers and coating recipes; operate coating equipment and optical monitoring systems; and perform post-coating inspection and testing.
Perform visual, dimensional, surface-quality, spectral, adhesion, and other required inspections using microscopes, gauges, interferometers, spectrometers, and related equipment.
Assemble crystals and components into optical isolators, modulators, and related photonic products, including cleaning, bonding, soldering, alignment, and precision mechanical assembly.
Accurately complete travelers, inspection records, and electronic manufacturing records; identify and report defects, nonconformances, and process deviations.
Set up equipment, perform routine checks and basic troubleshooting, conduct preventive maintenance, and make process adjustments within authorized limits.
Follow cleanroom, ESD, laser-safety, chemical-handling, contamination-control, and applicable environmental, health, and safety requirements.
Support engineering builds, new product introduction, process qualification, root-cause investigations, training, and continuous-improvement activities while meeting production, quality, yield, and schedule requirements.
Follow site EHS procedures and Coherent Corp. Corporate EHS standards, along with applicable quality and environmental management system requirements.