Primary Duties & Responsibilities
- Leverage expertise in cleaning processes and materials to systematically troubleshoot and resolve process and manufacturing challenges.
- Identify and correlate process and equipment variables with defects or failures, implementing sustainable, long-term preventive measures.
- Generate innovative and practical ideas for process optimization and product improvement.
- Achieve and exceed process yield targets set at the start of each financial year.
- Enhance manufacturing yields, operational efficiency, and cost-effectiveness.
- Support new product introduction and process transfer, including process flow definition, tooling design, and documentation.
- Participate in continuous improvement projects to optimize production performance.
- Utilize engineering tools such as Design of Experiments (DOE), Failure Mode & Effects Analysis (FMEA), and Statistical Process Control (SPC) to analyze process variables and their effects on thin-film and substrate properties.
- Maintain ISO-compliant process documentation, conduct audits, and provide training to ensure consistent quality standards.
- Conduct hands-on training for technicians on new or updated processes.
Education & Experience
- Degree in Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, Chemistry, Physics
- Work experience in thin film coating or in an advanced manufacturing environment
- Strong analytical & project management skills
- Good technical knowledge of the thermal & optical properties of materials
- Knowledge of Thin Film Deposition Physics & Thin Film Design
- Knowledge of high vacuum systems, evaporation techniques, cleaning & drying technologies.
- Knowledge of DOE, FMEA, SPC, TQM
Skills
- Data visualization in Power BI or similar platform
- Ability to analyze and extract meaningful insight of data
- Knowledge of work safety practices, handling of industrial/ hazardous materials
- Strong analytical & project management skills.
- Good technical knowledge of the chemical & optical properties of materials, in particular silicon, zinc selenide, germanium, gallium arsenide.
- Knowledge of ultrasonic wet cleaning & advanced drying techniques
Other Requirement
- Must commit to Overseas Training estimate duration of 10 weeks at Coherent site in United States/Philippines for future date. Training bond 1.5 years will start from date of return from overseas.
- Non-color deficiency required to check optics quality
