Sr. Product-Process Engineer Job in Westford, Massachusetts Us
ABOUT THE COMPANY: Dynamic, innovative, and cutting edge are not only the types of products we manufacture, these words describe the people that work here and also the ones we want to work here. Materion Corporation supplies highly engineered advanced materials to leading and dynamic technology companies across the globe. We are pioneers who drive technology by building customized products for semiconductors, computers, GPS devices, mobile and smart phones, digital cameras and gaming systems. In the defense and science market, we constantly meet the challenges of our customers by creating solutions for military aerospace, avionics, and security applications, as well as ground and space-based telescope systems. In industrial and commercial aerospace, we help our customers overcome harsh operating conditions on the ground or in flight. We are a forward moving organization that has a need for people that match the type of products we produce. As an organization we offer an innovative and high paced environment full of challenges and opportunities to grow professionally. We also offer solid benefits including health, dental, retirement, and tuition reimbursement. We look forward to hearing from you, if you feel that you can match our products, services and expertise in order to help our customers’ technologies.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
§ Supervises and performs the design, development and production of thin-film coated optics while continuously improving process, equipment, materials, training and methods of fabrication
§ Benchmarks of success include: Manufacturability of designs, higher yields, lower costs and new optical, mechanical performance records and ultimately satisfied customers
§ Demonstrated process engineering skills based on physics, optics, chemistry, material science, electronics and vacuum fundamentals
§ Leads and contributes to all aspects of custom thin-film manufacturing, including requirement definition, new product development, cost estimation and quoting, optical coating design, mechanical stress analysis, manufacturing instructions, fixture design, test plans, data analysis, documentation and final data packages
§ Interface with customer to design and produce product to customer specifications
§ Support quality initiatives such as CAR, 8-D, SPC, FMEA
§ Interface with internal Applications Engineers, Product Engineers, Process Engineers, Program Managers, Quality and Manufacturing Operations on integrated product teams
§ Other goals and objectives may be assigned
FORMAL EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
§ Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or other Science discipline and 5 years hands-on optical coating experience preferred
§ Thorough knowledge and experience with deposition of optical thin-film materials
§ Thorough understanding of ion sources
§ Thorough knowledge of optical thin-film design and deposition thickness control methods
§ Strong understanding of mechanical drawings, metrology, and 3D CAD
§ Experience with photolithography, precision dicing and micro assembly is highly desired
§ Thorough knowledge of state-of-the-art vacuum coating equipment and familiarity with clean room practices
§ Strong understanding of optical testing as related to interference coatings with optics and optical systems background
§ Ability to effectively manage multiple concurrent projects under accelerated schedules
§ Superior documentation skills
§ Proven leader and self-motivator that can develop standards and improve processes with little supervision
§ Troubleshooting skills and knowledge of six sigma lean practices
§ Working knowledge of ITAR