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About the Role
If you are looking to be a contributor at the forefront of innovation and want your work to drive the future of connectivity, this is your chance to join a passionate, world-class team.
The Cisco-Acacia Optics Operations Team is looking for a Manufacturing Engineer who will be a key hands-on contributor, interacting with internal stakeholders and outsourced manufacturing partners, to help enable the rapidly growing and expanding portfolio of Coherent pluggables and embedded modules. This individual will have a prominent role in supporting New Product Introduction while driving Design for Manufacturability, Automation, and Cost.
Job Requirements
• Collaborate with Design Engineering from conceptual stage of product through release to volume manufacturing while influencing/ driving DFx.
• Generate and maintain detailed assembly and inspection instructions for mechanical, soldering, fiber management, and packaging activities. Conduct hands-on training with technicians.
• Provide process development support to module manufacturing partners and act as focal point for problem resolution.
• Initiate and direct the design, implementation, and maintenance of production tooling, fixtures, and automation equipment to support process development, quality, and improvements.
• Drive continuous improvement through defect trend reporting, analysis, and metrics reviews to ensure yield targets are met or exceeded.
• Achieve all gate review checklist actions per program schedule.
• Drive lean manufacturing practices to obtain optimal utilization of capital equipment, maximize HPU, and reduce transformation cost.
• Act as Manufacturing designee for approval of product design changes. Working knowledge of Product Life-Cycle Management tools such as Agile or Omnify a plus.
• Provide accurate and timely project reporting to internal stakeholders
Who You Are
• Adaptable - open to and actively solicit new ideas and opinions.
• High agency - demonstrates proactive independent learning by self-teaching new skills and persistently pursuing solutions without waiting for external guidance, ensuring continuous progress even when faced with unfamiliar challenges.
• Influence & Positive Impact - skilled at persuading, motivating, and energizing others at all levels. Passionate, personable, self-confident, and likeable.
• Ownership - fully accepting responsibility for a project, including proactively undertaking tasks that may extend beyond one's formal duties, to ensure the project's success and advance the best interests of the team.
• Results Oriented - maintains appropriate focus on short- and long-term goals. Motivated by achievement, and persists until goals are reached, conveying a sense of urgency.
• Teamwork - actively collaborates with team members by providing assistance on their projects and stepping in to support multiple colleagues as needed, fostering a culture of mutual support and shared responsibility.
• Flexible, persistent, resourceful, driven to succeed, and have an entrepreneurial spirit
• An effective communicator (written and oral), enthusiastic team player and problem solver who drives positive results.
Who You'll Work With
You'll be part of a close-knit on-site team and will collaborate with various groups throughout the cross functional organization both on-site and remotely.
Minimum Qualifications
• BS Engineering degree with 5+ years of optical/ electronics manufacturing experience.
• Hands-on experience in participating in product transfers and quick volume ramping at CM's.
• Expertise in collecting and analyzing data by applying SPC, FMEA, and DOE techniques to establish Cpk, drive continuous improvement and cost reduction actions.
• Experienced in assembly automation equipment for high-volume manufacturing such as pick and place, dispensing, and wire-bonding.
• 3+ years experience with Solidworks (or comparable) CAD software
• Some exposure to surface mount technology and thru-hole manual soldering techniques for opto-electronic components.
• Background in machining processes, thermal management, and fixture design.
- Familiarity with optical fiber handling, cleaning, splicing, and routing.
