Program Manager

Primary Duties & 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.
• Cook up 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.
• Cook up 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.
• Cook up quality and other resources to address customer issues with our devices.
• Cook up 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.
• Some travel for development activities may be required to enable global team coordination, product transfer, and problem resolution.

Education & Experience

• Minimum 4 Year College Degree (Bachelor or Equivalent)
• Minimum 10+ years’ experience

Skills

• Experience successfully managing cross-functional teams, interacting with a broad range of functions, skills, cultures, and personalities.
• Experience with semiconductor device (e.g. ICs, lasers, detectors) development is desired.
• Experience with Fab Operations and/or Product Lifecycle Management processes Previous experience as an Engineer in R&D or Operations a strong advantage.
• Experience with Oracle, Agile PLM, and MS Office is desired.
• 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.
• Experience with Oracle, Agile PLM, and MS Project
• Strong interpersonal skills to be able to effectively collaborate with other cross-functional teams to achieve business unit and organizational objectives.
• PMP certification is preferred.

About Us

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!