Jobs at Coherent Corp.

Creates and maintains semiconductor process recipes, monitors SPC and yield, investigates process issues, and implements corrective actions. Develops process controls, OCAPs, specifications, and continuous-improvement initiatives to reduce scrap, cost, and cycle time. Trains process technicians, resolves cross-functional technical issues, and collaborates with operations, equipment engineering, design, supply chain, and process integration teams. The role requires cleanroom work and adherence to safety, quality, and environmental standards.

Supervises the Administrative Services team, assigning work, managing priorities, and supporting employee development. Oversees administrative service delivery, resource coordination, process standardization, budgets, vendors, office services, and service levels. Supports executives and leadership initiatives, coordinates special projects and communications, and drives continuous improvement and operational efficiency while maintaining applicable quality, environmental, and safety standards.

Leads backend semiconductor process engineering teams responsible for process control, yield, process development, technical problem-solving, and production targets. Sets priorities, coordinates with cross-functional groups, evaluates performance, mentors engineers, and represents the team internally and externally. Requires semiconductor processing knowledge, engineering statistics, project and team management skills, and willingness to work in cleanrooms around chemicals.

Leads laser welding process setup, development, qualification, and production recovery for a manufacturing line. Defines process parameters, equipment requirements, work instructions, controls, and acceptance criteria. Coordinates validation with engineering, manufacturing, quality, and suppliers; monitors yield and reliability; resolves root causes; supports production training; and drives continuous improvement. Maintains qualified equipment and ensures safety, quality, and environmental compliance.

Leads daily manufacturing operations for optical fiber products, ensuring safety, quality, delivery, productivity, and cost objectives. Supervises, coaches, and develops production employees; manages staffing, scheduling, attendance, and overtime. Coordinates with Engineering, Maintenance, Quality, Planning, Supply Chain, and EHS to minimize downtime, improve processes, support technology scale-up, and address production issues. Drives continuous improvement, CAPA, scrap and rework reduction, compliance, and operational performance.

Key member of semiconductor metrology lab supporting R&D and production. Develops and maintains measurement recipes, analyzes datasets, collaborates on process improvements, and mentors junior engineers.

Leads the site-wide environmental, health, and safety program for a high-hazard manufacturing facility. Responsibilities include OSHA and environmental compliance, industrial hygiene, process safety, emergency response, wastewater and air permitting, radiation and laser safety, toxic gas monitoring, contractor safety, incident investigations, training, audits, regulatory inspections, and EHS team management. The role is fully onsite and requires emergency coverage outside normal business hours.

The Financial Analyst supports financial close, journal entries, reconciliations, internal controls, fixed assets, intercompany activity, inventory, cost accounting, and capital projects. The role prepares financial reporting, variance analysis, operational reviews, budgets, forecasts, and five-year plans. Responsibilities include partnering with shared services, operations, tax, controllers, and business groups, while analyzing gross margin, productivity, yields, work-in-progress, and financial performance.

Leads reliability qualification and customer quality issue resolution for optical transceiver and photonics products. Coordinates failure analysis, cross-functional NPI activities, corrective actions, risk escalation, and delivery commitments across global engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and customer teams. Tracks reliability milestones, synthesizes data, manages quality initiatives, and supports planning, budgeting, and compliance with applicable ISO standards.

Owns the development, optimization, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement of PECVD processes and equipment for GaAs and InP semiconductor manufacturing. Responsibilities include SPC and DOE, thin-film metrology, yield improvement, fault detection, recipe and process control, root cause analysis, documentation, equipment qualification, vendor coordination, and technician training. The role requires cleanroom work, off-hours manufacturing support, and expertise in PECVD films, process integration, and high-volume semiconductor production.

Develops, optimizes, and maintains photolithography processes for InP and GaAs wafer fabrication. Supports production lithography tools, recipe automation, process troubleshooting, yield improvement, experiments, SPC, equipment health monitoring, metrology, process integration, qualifications, transfers, and new product introductions. The role also creates documentation, analyzes process data, collaborates cross-functionally, and mentors technicians and junior engineers in a semiconductor cleanroom manufacturing environment.

Owns semiconductor metrology processes and equipment, developing measurement recipes, sampling strategies, control limits, and tool-correlation methods. Troubleshoots measurement and equipment issues, performs MSA and Gage R&R studies, and applies SPC, DOE, and statistical analysis to improve process capability and yield. Supports automation, MES integration, equipment qualification, new product introductions, and technology transfers. The role requires cleanroom work, manufacturing support, documentation, technician training, and collaboration with process, equipment, R&D, and production teams.

Leads lithography process engineering for high-volume semiconductor manufacturing. Responsibilities include sustaining and optimizing photolithography processes, developing and transferring new processes, integrating EUV and advanced scanner technologies, improving yield and quality, resolving complex process issues, coordinating cross-functional mitigation plans, and managing engineers and technicians. The role requires support for 24/7 operations, strong process-control expertise, and leadership across manufacturing, engineering, quality, IT, and operations teams.

Leads daily manufacturing operations at a Delaware site, overseeing production execution, planning, scheduling, WIP flow, quality, safety, maintenance coordination, continuous improvement, staffing, labor relations, budgeting, capital planning, and customer support. Develops operations leaders, drives Lean initiatives, improves productivity and yield, maintains compliance systems, and coordinates cross-functional execution across engineering, quality, supply chain, finance, HR, sales, and product management.

Develops, fabricates, inspects, and ships prototypes made from advanced ceramic and composite materials. Improves materials-processing and manufacturing methods, programs and operates equipment, documents experimentation, and provides design-for-manufacturability input. Interfaces with customers, vendors, test laboratories, and manufacturers. Transfers successful processes to production by writing standard work, specifying equipment, training personnel, and monitoring results. Participates in Lean, Six Sigma, Kaizen, FMEA, yield improvement, quality, and environmental initiatives.

Leads day-to-day and long-term operations across three U.S. manufacturing sites. Owns production capacity expansion, operational KPIs, quality, cost, yield, productivity, planning, inventory, and supply chain alignment. Drives Lean, automation, digital transformation, continuous improvement, workforce development, technology readiness, and cross-site standardization. Coordinates with Asia operations on global transfers and scaling while ensuring logistics, export compliance, and ISO standards. Requires extensive multi-site manufacturing leadership, precision machining or optical fabrication knowledge, and approximately 20% travel.

Leads strategic marketing for the datacenter vertical, including market and product strategy, roadmap development, platform opportunity identification, investment prioritization, go-to-market planning, and customer engagement. Serves as an industry spokesperson, builds executive and customer relationships, drives cross-functional alignment, and represents the company in standards bodies and industry groups. Requires extensive datacenter experience, technical and business leadership, strong communication skills, and occasional domestic and international travel.

Supports semiconductor process equipment across sites, maintenance teams, and process engineering. Optimizes equipment performance with vendors, suppliers, machine shops, and OEMs; leads retrofits and upgrades for ion implanters; and drives defectivity, cost-of-ownership, and continuous-improvement initiatives. The role requires hands-on cleanroom and laboratory work, adherence to EHS and quality standards, strong cross-functional communication, and the ability to understand complex automated systems.

Leads oxide crystal growth process development, optimization, scale-up, and troubleshooting using Czochralski techniques. Designs and sources furnaces and related equipment, defines materials and performance specifications, creates drawings and documentation, supports installation and qualification, performs crystal characterization, and ensures safety, quality, and manufacturing compliance.

Supervises training and procedures activities for MPZ operations at Coherent, supporting employee development, procedural consistency, and operational performance. The provided description does not include detailed day-to-day responsibilities or required qualifications.