Nordson Test & Inspection, a global leader in X-Ray & Test Systems and Optical Sensors and Metrology, is seeking an experienced and highly motivated individual to join our team. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, and we are looking for candidates who share that same commitment.
Summary of the role
As a member of our team, you will have the opportunity to work in a dynamic and collaborative environment, where your ideas and contributions will be valued and respected.
Job Summary
Optical Sensors and Metrology (OSM) is part of the Advanced Technology Segment of Nordson Corporation. OSM designs and builds sensors and systems that solve problems in the semi-conductor and electronics manufacturing industries. Our Wafersense product line is used in nearly every SemiConductor fab in the world to configure and maintain semiconductor tools. Our 3D sensor product line is used in electronics manufacturing lines across the globe. The device you are using to read this notice, very likely, contains components inspected by our sensors.
Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities
The Opto-Mechanical Engineering Manager is responsible for managing our team of mechanical engineers and optical engineers, and their work. We expect our managers to be technical contributors and participate in the development process. The manager oversees all our opto-mechanical design processes and ensures they are being followed. They prioritize workloads across multiple product lines and project managers, and ensure all stakeholders are aware of the prioritization calls being made.
Project Implementation:- Design: Responsible for creative designs that are on time, manufacturable, cost-effective, and reliable. Deliverables include specifications, designs, product documentation, records of inventions and design reviews.
- Test: Responsible for thorough testing of product design. Deliverables are test plans, reviews and results.
- Manufacturability: Responsible for providing product designs compatible with a lean manufacturing process. Deliverables include being an active participant in the Manufacturing Process Review (MPR) and timely follow-up of the resulting actions.
- Project management: Personally responsible for maintaining project design timelines and vigorously promoting ideas to improve timelines. Deliverables are up-to-date task lists, estimations (short and long term), communication, presentations and tracking.
- Active support of manufacturing and customers by providing timely responses to production and field requests.
- Support product quality improvement by leading and/or supporting all the opto-mechanical 8D quality improvement initiatives.
- Stay aware of division goals and ensure that priorities are communicated that drive these goals.
- Lead and/or support continuous process development and improvement.
- Responsible for continuously improving engineering and personal skill sets by staying educated in current developments in engineering materials, processes, and tools.
- Coach and mentor staff to improve their design, test, reliability, quality, and leadership skills.
- Support users to make them efficient in our CAD tools.
- Ensure CAD tools are maintained
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Mechatronics, Optical Engineering, or related discipline.
- 10+ years of product design experience, and working with production.
- Working knowledge of precision engineering, tolerancing, thermal analysis, exact constraint design, and other fundamental mechanical engineering concepts.
- Demonstrated proficiency in Creo and/or SolidWorks
- Knowledge/experience testing precision optical systems utilizing typical optical alignment tools.
- Knowledge/experience of design for reliability for precision systems and related processes.
- Knowledge/experience of design for manufacturing, manufacturing equipment, and assembly of precision optical assemblies
- Knowledge/experience of basic project management techniques, estimation, identification of critical path, and tracking of tasks
Working Conditions
- On‑site presence required
- Occasional travel to suppliers, manufacturing sites, or customer locations (<5%).
Compensation
Base Salary for this position is: $132,000 to $165,000 annuall, and bonus target is 15%; shift premium may be available depending on shift associated with the specific job opportunity. Benefits include Medical, Rx, Vision, Dental, and Health Savings Account (HSA), Retirement and Security benefits including 401k and Life Insurance. In addition to Paid Time Off and paid Holidays, each employee receives 16 hours paid time each calendar year to perform volunteer services for Nordson-sponsored events. Ample opportunities for giving exist at Nordson including our Matching Gifts Program.
The base pay range for this job level is a general guideline and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Individual salaries are determined by a variety of factors including but not limited to internal equity, business considerations, and local market conditions, as well as candidate qualifications, such as education, experience, and skills.
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Interested?
If you are interested in being a part of a team and creating an inclusive and diverse workplace, please apply online with your CV.
About Nordson Test & Inspection
Nordson Test & Inspection manufactures world-class metrology equipment and inspection systems to ensure electronic products are built to meet the highest standards. We use X-ray inspection, acoustic imaging, and optical inspection technologies to create testing systems that enable the identification of even the smallest defects at high resolution. By joining our team today, you will help us bring innovative ideas to life. Nordson Test & Inspection is a global team that works to create machines and systems that improve the manufacturing process for a wide range of industries, including electronics, aerospace, automotive, energy, lighting, and medical. We offer a supportive culture in a growing and dynamic work environment. Whether you're just beginning your career or you're a seasoned professional, there's a place for you to belong at Nordson Test & Inspection. We offer hourly and salary positions in production, maintenance, customer service, quality, engineering, and more. We actively invest in our teams to help you build your skillsets and advance your career.
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What We Do
Nordson is a team of 7,300 global employees thriving in an environment where they are supported and encouraged to be their best. Working side by side, we build meaningful connections with each other and our customers. Together, we deliver products that are solutions, and they’re likely touching your life every day. Have you ever changed a diaper? Opened a box of cereal? Used a smart phone or driven a car? Then we’ve already met. At Nordson, we take pride in being an outstanding corporate citizen and strongly believe in sharing our success with the communities where our employees live and work. Whether you’re working in one of our labs, offices or manufacturing facilities, your efforts will enable our customers to succeed and our company to continuously improve and grow. We engineer, manufacture and market differentiated products and systems used for precision dispensing and processing in a variety of end markets, from packaging to transportation and medical to electronics. Founded in 1954, we operate under the values of integrity, respect for people, customer passion, energy and excellence. Nordson is headquartered in the United States in Westlake, Ohio, and has direct operations in more than 30 countries to support our products and systems with application expertise and a direct global sales and service organization
