Optical Fabrication Technician CWW Front End Days

Role & Responsibilities

• Shift: Front End Days 6 am – 6pm (Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, alternate Wednesday)
• Must be willing to work a compressed work week schedule- twelve-hour long shift and rotating from three to four days a week.
• Actively monitor and take ownership of optical processing equipment
• Handle delicate optical components and visually identify any abnormal characteristics
• Maintain area, tooling, and equipment to 5S area standards
• Identify and escalate any unsafe conditions
• Identify and escalate any product or process quality concerns in a timely manner
• Perform assigned work content to support area and factory schedule execution
• Collaborate with the Production Engineering and Manufacturing Management teams to improve operational efficiency and effectiveness
• Learn and apply skills to tackle progressively more challenging products
• Identify and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives in how your work is defined and performed, and more broadly within your area, to improve safety, quality, output, and cycle time
• Inspect and create a map of glass surfaces showing all minute defects
• Clean optical surfaces of all particles and contaminants
• Accurately record time and attendance
• Assist with training new and existing employees

Education & Experience

• High school diploma or GED
• Associate degree in a vocational trade preferred
• Previous experience working in a manufacturing facility or completion of a vocational certification preferable
• Prior use of some of the following: measuring equipment desirable: microscopes, calipers, micrometers, coordinate measuring machine (CMM), interferometer
• Participation in continuous improvement efforts (quality circles, kaizen events, etc.)

Skills

• Commitment to task and results orientation to complete scheduled activities and report status throughout your shift
• Attention to detail to deliver quality results from your processing step, including visually inspecting your work to detect and report any abnormalities
• Organization of information and materials
• Ability to read and understand gages and other measuring devices
• Ability to interpret mathematical and geometrical data
• Demonstrated ability to clearly document a problem using facts and data
• Accountable for your actions and willingness to engage in problem resolution
• Constructively challenge the status quo in search of a better way
• Care for yourself and others by confronting unsafe behaviors or conditions
• Take pride in your work and speak up when observing abnormal conditions in process or product
• Self-motivated learner
• Dexterity to handle optical components with care

Other Information

• Routinely required to sit; walk; talk; hear; use hands to keyboard, finger, handle, and feel; stoop, kneel, crouch, twist, reach, and stretch
• Occasionally required to move around the campus
• May require travel dependent on business needs
• Must be willing to work in a clean room environment, wearing coveralls, hoods, booties, safety glasses and gloves for entire duration of shift
• The employee may occasionally lift and/or move up to 35 pounds
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus
• Must be comfortable working around lasers, working with ladders, working on platforms, and working around chemicals
• May be exposed to moving mechanical parts, solvents and tooling
• You must be work authorized in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship

Additional Responsibilities

• There is potential for exposure to strong magnetic fields, high voltage and currents
• This position requires access to controlled technology, as defined in the United States Export Administration Regulations (15 C.F.R. 730, et seq.)