Sr Development Engineer

Purpose:

Equipment Design and Development Engineer responsible for leading or working within multi-discipline teams to Prototype and Pilot Equipment Design for optical fiber manufacturing processes and products.

Design, develop, improve and industrialize Optical Fiber manufacturing platforms (platform = process + equipment) for existing or revolutionary manufacturing processes, thereby enabling new products with advantaged attributes and/or step-change reductions in manufacturing cost.  Translate understanding and experimental solutions to engineering requirements, then further to process and/or equipment designs which deliver performance criteria.

Work is typically completed as a member of a technology development team chartered with improving one or more of the following: manufacturing yields (selections), process rate, machine utilization, product quality, new product quality, environmental compliance, raw material yield, and/or energy usage.

Responsibilities:

•    Use established processes to identify concepts for manufacturing equipment, design, build and test selected concepts as an individual and in teams, and utilize risk management tools to ensure on-time delivery.  
•    Designing and executing equipment validation test in a manufacturing plant; analyzing data, drawing conclusions, and making recommendations.
•    Collaborating with other equipment/machine design experts within and outside of OFC development organization.
•    Securing funding via appropriation requests and expense budgeting processes to support equipment design and development .
•    Communicating and documenting results and equipment designs.

Travel Requirements:
•    <10% domestic and international possible

Hours of work/work schedule/flex-time:

•    The position is overtime exempt.  Overtime is not uncommon and is indeed expected at times, however the amount and duration will vary as a function of the job position, particular project, and point in the project life cycle.

Qualifications:

•    B.S. degree in mechanical engineering, Materials Science or similar technical field (e.g. physics);  
•    5+ years of relevant engineering experience in optical fiber process development or manufacturing environment
•    3+ years of relevant experience working with cross-functional teams (e.g., Electrical Controls, Chemicals, Material Science, etc.) and Materials processing within a manufacturing environment
•    3+ years of experience demonstrating working knowledge of physical phenomena (static and dynamic physics, heat and mass transfer, fluid mechanics, optics, etc.) with a strong background in machine design or machine systems integration, and the ability to design and carry out experiments in lab and manufacturing environments.
•    1+ year of experience with 3-D CAD software (AutoDesk Inventor preferred)

Desired Skills:  
•    Working knowledge experience of Machine Controls (motion control, sensor technologies, PLC programming, etc…) and safety systems.
•    Proficient in DMAIC and MEE methodologies for problem solving.
•    Experience with data processing software (e.g. Jmp, Python, PowerBI) and MS Office suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint). Modeling simulation software optional (e.g. Aspen, Matlab, Fluent).