Lead NPI Engineer - Optical Components

Job Title

Product, Technology Development, and Program Management

Product, Technology Development, and Program Management (60%)

• Design and deploy new thermal and thermoelectric products with minimal manager supervision to meet or exceed customer technical requirements.
• Conceive of and perform thermal-mechanical design/modeling analyses using both internal TE design software and Ansys Mechanical simulation tools.
• Independently verify model and design results for accuracy using first-law principles and empirical testing.
• Manage assigned projects with minimal manager supervision to ensure and adherence to project delivery dates and budgets.
• Effectively use application tools (spreadsheets, modeling tools, product management processes, etc.) to meet or exceed schedule targets.
• Follow the Product Development Process and actively maintain project statuses in the Phase Gate project development tool.
• Participate in internal and external Quality audits.
• Proactively identify and communicate technical and schedule risks to management and work to identify and solve problems before they occur.
• Conceive of, propose, and champion product-related technology development projects.
• Communicate design and testing results to the technical community through technical reports/memos, presentations, and training sessions.
• Provide status updates on project progress during weekly engineering team meetings.
• Support other team members in completing assigned tasks independently and on-time.
• Follow and propose updates for internal engineering design guidelines.
• Contribute to the improvement of engineering design tools.
• Support identifying causes and proposing resolutions to Return Goods and Failure Analysis issues.
• Respond directly to product reliability and qualification requests with limited manager supervision, author reliability reports/data, and manage product specific reliability and qualification testing.
• Participate in problem solving sessions with cross-functional teams to solve complex problems.
• Support the manufacturing floor during prototype builds and testing of new products.
• Develop working (hands-on) familiarity with our internal manufacturing processes – ceramic and element dicing, metallization plating, thick-film metallization, lapping, stencil printing, soldering, dispensing, pick-n-place machinery, cleaning processes, etc.
• Develop a working (hands-on) familiarity with internal laboratory equipment – power supplies, Delta T tester, EZ tester, thermal chambers, DAQ's, flow meters, IR camera, ACR meter, fume hoods, thermal cycle tester, etc.
• Work with Procurement Team and external suppliers to ensure purchased parts meet technical and quality requirements.

Business Operations and Product Sales (30%)

• Directly communicate with strategic customers in a timely and professional manner. Portray a positive image of Coherent and Coherent Thermal Solutions.
• Develop, review, and publish costing for new NPI products in a timely manner.
• Support sales with sales opportunity requests, customer calls, and customer visits
• National and International travel as needed to support Vietnam manufacturing factory and global customer base.
• Demonstrate high standards for ethics, professionalism, leadership, and quality focus and encourage it in others.
• Effective collaboration with our Vietnam manufacturing team and the Asian Design Center. Includes participation in scheduled weekly calls (typically in the evening) with these teams as needed.

Intellectual Property (5%)

• Apply standard technologies (internal and external) to new products and capabilities.
• Document new internal technology developments for possible patent application.
• Develop and demonstrate knowledge of performance differences between Coherent Thermal Solutions products and similar competitive products.
• Publish internal technical reports.

Personal Development (5%)

• Actively review and update yearly goals with manager.
• Actively participate in available training sessions.
• Participate in technical conferences and workshops.
• Follow company policies, with special attention to ergonomics and housekeeping.

Technical Degree

• BS or higher degree in Engineering…