Jr. Mechanical Engineer
Company: Thorlabs
Location: Sterling
Posted on: April 11, 2021
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Job Description:
Company Profile:
Thorlabs is a manufacturer of photonics components, instruments,
and systems. Our vast product portfolio includes over 20,000 items,
ranging from optics and optomechanical positioning components to
imaging systems. Thorlabs has extended its core competencies in an
effort to play an ever-increasing role serving the Photonics
Industry at the research end, as well as the industrial, life
science, medical, and defense segments. Headquartered in Newton,
NJ, Thorlabs has grown to over 1800 employees with manufacturing
and sales offices in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany,
France, Sweden, Japan, China, and Brazil.
Thorlabs encourages its employees to grow during their time with
the organization by providing several benefits. Our benefits
include full tuition assistance, internal advancement
opportunities, health insurance (Thorlabs pays up to 75%), eye care
and dental, 401k, and several wellness programs.
Job Description:
This position is an entry level engineering position part of the
NPI team that interfaces with a variety of teams including
mechanics, optics, firmware, software, marketing, sales, and
production. The position requires an overall understanding of the
product life cycle and the ability to bring a product from the raw
concept phase to the final release phase. The Junior NPI Engineer
is passionate about creating innovative and effective
customer-orientated solutions.
Essential Job Functions include the following, but are not limited
to:
Review project inputs from design engineers and gather product
requirements, detailed functional specifications, and design
descriptions, to make sure that new products and product
enhancements are adequately defined, well-understood, and
approved.
Work with purchasing and planning group to procure components for
pilot run of new products.
Assist technicians in conducting pilot run build or proof of
manufacturability.
Integrate software and firmware onto new systems and perform
modular, front end and GUI testing onto all new products. Notify
design engineers of conditions requiring more complex resolution,
recurring failures, potential service issues, or identified new
product limitations. Make recommendations for potential design or
procedural changes.
Review and update marketing analysis of new products such as sales
forecasts and costs to determine effective gross profit margins and
to price products competitively on the market.
Management and tracking of NPI inventory transactions.
Create engravings and markings that comply with industry and
company standard for every new product.
Determine effective packaging solutions for all new products.
Set-up Items, and BOMs in MRP system. Review and update all
manufacturing drawings, and documentation on new products before
release.
Participate in web page reviews on all new products and provide
technical support to answer and explain new products to the
marketing team.
Introduction of derivative products into the market.
NPI Team Job Functions include the following, but are not limited
to:
Interface with a variety of teams to introduce new products in the
market. Team include research, engineering (mechanics, optics,
electronics, firmware, software), manufacturing, marketing and
sales.
Introduce new products into the market after project has been
transferred from engineering.
Facilitate the developments of documentation, instructions and
procedures that improve manufacturability of new products.
Provide customer-orientated presentations and documentation to ease
use of product
Propose and support development of new products or improvement of
existing products
Support all other NPI Team members in order to meet project
timelines
Document all project inputs and outputs in ECRO process
Job Requirements:
Experience:
0-2 years of experience in engineering field
Hands-on experience in the bioimaging or photonics industry is a
plus.
Design for Six Sigma (DFFS) and Lean Manufacturing experience a
plus.
Education:
Bachelor s Degree in Mechanical/Optical Systems Engineering or
other relevant technical major required.
Specialized Knowledge and Skills:
Experience using SolidWorks 2D, 3D, Photoview 360 Modeling
Application.
Problem resolution skills applied to providing solutions involving
new design and assembly techniques, technologies, and concepts is a
must.
Experience with optical and mechanical design.
Provide technical support to answer and explain new products to the
customers and sales teams.
Strong sense of ownership and work ethic, written and verbal
communication skills is a must.
Experience with product roadmaps, voice of the customer, user
experience improvements, new product development, and niche
marketing.
Strong understanding of AXAPTA (Enterprise resource planning
solution), KANBAN, Visio, Microsoft office, and OneNote.
Candidates with certifications in product or project management,
which include (PMP, CPM, CPMM ), are a plus.
Thorlabs values its diverse environment and is proud to be an Equal
Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified
individuals will receive consideration for employment without
regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or
expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics,
disability, age or veteran status. Job descriptions are not
intended as and do not create employment contracts. The
organization maintains its status as an at-will employer. Employees
can be terminated for any reason not prohibited by law.
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