Principal Assembly Technician

The Principal Assembly Technician will support Manufacturing and Engineering with complex engineering duties and/or hands-on tasks. The candidate will be involved with the overall manufacturing of optical sensors, sub-systems, fixturing and systems for advanced optical inspection technologies. They will coordinate with hardware and software manufacturing engineering teams. Assist in the development of performance models and test procedures. This candidate will be the focal contact between the production cell and the Manufacturing Engineering department. This role will report directly to the Production Supervisor.

Key Responsibilities and Essential Functions:

1. Develop procedures for diagnostic, troubleshooting techniques and methodology for components,sub-systems and final assembly of optical sensor applications.

2. Responsible for building, aligning, and calibrating sensors using hand tools, light meters, multimeters, alignment telescopes, autocollimators, theodolites, and lasers.

3. Assist Engineering and Quality departments with troubleshooting customer returned products and systemic failures within the manufacturing processes and test methods.

4. Support Manufacturing and Engineering department with testing and troubleshooting. Analyze test results and adjust equipment to bring it within specifications. Set up and conduct precision optical and mechanical measurements.

5. Coordinate with other departments to install, align, troubleshoot, calibrate, and document changes. Ability to assemble and test products using diagrams and can generate assembly and test plans from them.

6. Participate in daily production communication meeting to resolve manufacturing issues such as process, fixtures, capacity, and materials to achieve the production build plan.

7. When required, candidate can be assigned to support production capacity to meet revenue plans.

8. Ability to read mechanical drawings, production build processes, and test procedures.

9. Requires a broad understanding of the job and applies skills and knowledge in a range of processes, procedures and systems or requires deep skills in a single area.

10. Work closely with production, Quality, and Customer Service to disposition and diagnose customer returns RMA (Return Merchandise Authorization).

Experience, Education, and Competencies Required:

1. Two years Diploma with 5 years of Assembly Technician experience.

2. Ability to understand drawings, specifications, procedures, and geometric tolerances.

3. Strong troubleshooting skills to decipher between sensor and system design, fixture, or software issues.

4. Experience with adhesives, glues, epoxies used for opto-mechanical assemblies.

5. Knowledge and experience with scratch/dig optical capabilities.

6. Experienced in Lean manufacturing - continuous improvement by developing process map, spaghetti diagram, time studies, line balancing, and value stream mapping.

7. Ability to work with minimal supervision but does not supervise others. Individual will not give work direction. Will provide input to create a solution for process change considerations to be approved by the Manufacturing Engineer or Production Supervisor.

8. Experienced in ERP system (SAP) and Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook).

Experience, Education, and Competencies Preferred:

1. 10 years of experience as an Assembly Technician.
2. Familiar with optomechanical / electromechanical and system assembly operations.

3. Familiar with NPD build and test processes. Operate well under time constraints and shifting priorities and resources.

4. Having a continuous improvement mindset to bring innovative ideas to the production cell.

5. Experience with interferometers and associated measurement devices