Program Manager

Coherent Corp.•Sherman, TX

31d•Hybrid

About The Position

Coherent is a global leader in lasers, engineered materials and networking components. We are a vertically integrated manufacturing company that develops innovative products for diversified applications in the industrial, optical communications, military, life sciences, semiconductor equipment, and consumer markets. Coherent provides a comprehensive career development platform within an environment that challenges employees to perform at their best, while rewarding excellence and hard-work through a competitive compensation program. It's an exciting opportunity to work for a company that offers stability, longevity and growth. Come Join Us! This role involves managing and driving internal resources to document and complete customer checkpoints, executing programs to deliver on time and within budget, coordinating customer meetings and communications, and serving as the primary operations interface with customer Operations Managers. The Program Manager will also coordinate internal resources to address production issues, prepare weekly reports, and handle one-off requests related to green initiatives, cost initiatives, audits, and facility issues. Some travel for development activities may be required for global team coordination, product transfer, and problem resolution.

Requirements

Minimum 4 Year College Degree (Bachelor or Equivalent)
Minimum 10+ years’ experience
Experience successfully managing cross-functional teams, interacting with a broad range of functions, skills, cultures, and personalities.
Experience with Fab Operations and/or Product Lifecycle Management processes
Strong problem solving, critical thinking, and risk management skills.
Strong communication, planning, and organizational skills.
Highly self-motivated with a strong multi-disciplinary background is essential.
Strong interpersonal skills to be able to effectively collaborate with other cross-functional teams to achieve business unit and organizational objectives.
Responsible for following the site EHS procedures and the Coherent Corp EHS standards which includes completion of mandatory safety training as assigned.
All employees are required to follow the site EHS procedures and Coherent Corp. Corporate EHS standards.

Nice To Haves

Experience with semiconductor device (e.g. ICs, lasers, detectors) development is desired.
Previous experience as an Engineer in R&D or Operations a strong advantage.
Experience with Oracle, Agile PLM, and MS Office is desired.
Experience with Oracle, Agile PLM, and MS Project
PMP certification is preferred.

Responsibilities

Manage and drive internal resources to document and complete customer checkpoints such as OK2EPI, OK2FAB, OK2TEST and OK2SENDMP, and others as required.
Execute programs to deliver on time, within performance, on budget, with quality products.
Coordinate customer meetings and communications and coordinate gathering answers to customer requests with prior internal agreement from the broader team.
Serve as primary operations interface working with customer Operations Manager to successfully deliver on time to 3rd party OEMs specified by customer.
Coordinate internal resources to address any production issues such as tool failures, tools down for extended periods, IQC issues with material inputs. Work with customer and factory to ensure issues don’t re-occur.
Prepare weekly reports and host cross functional customer meetings reporting status and addressing open issues.
Coordinate quality and other resources to address customer issues with our devices.
Coordinate supply chain to ensure on time shipments with end customers.
Handle one off requests associated with Green Initiatives, Cost initiatives, audits and infrequent facility issues.