The Senior Assembly Technician will support Manufacturing and Engineering with moderately complex engineering duties and/or hands-on tasks. The candidate will be involved with the overall production and manufacturing of optical sensors, systems or Semiconductor technology. 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:

• Responsible for building, aligning, and calibrating sensors using hand tools, light meters, multimeters, alignment telescopes, autocollimators, theodolites, and lasers.
• 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.
• 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.
• Participate in daily production communication meeting to resolve manufacturing issues such as process, fixtures, capacity, and materials to achieve the production build plan.
• When required, candidate can be assigned to support production capacity to meet revenue plans.
• Ability to read mechanical drawings, production build processes, and test procedures.
• 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.
• Work closely with production, Quality, and Costumer Service to disposition and diagnose customer returns RMA (Return Merchandise Authorization). 

Experience, Education, and Competencies Required:

• Completed High School diploma with minimum of 10 years of experience as an Assembly Technician. 
• Ability to understand drawings, specifications, procedures, and geometric tolerances.
• Strong troubleshooting skills to decipher between sensor and system design, fixture, or software issues. 
• 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. 
• Experienced in ERP system (SAP) and Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook).
• Core hours: 6:00am – 2:30pm

Experience, Education, and Competencies Preferred:

Preferably, 2-year AS degree with two years of Assembly Technician experience. Familiar with optomechanical / electromechanical and system assembly operations. Familiar with NPD build and test processes.  Operate well under time constraints and shifting priorities and resources. Having a continuous improvement mindset to bring innovative ideas to the production cell. Experienced in Lean manufacturing – continuous improvement. 

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to talk and listen. The employee is frequently required to stand and sit.