
Optical Fabrication Technician CWW Back End Nights (6:00pm-6:00am Thursday- Saturday, every other Wednesday) - 15% Differential
- Wilton, CT
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Optical Fabrication Technician CWW Back End Nights (6:00pm-6:00am Thursday- Saturday, every other Wednesday) - 15% Differential
- Must be willing to work a compressed work week schedule- twelve-hour long shift and rotating from three to four days a week.
- High school diploma or GED required or equivalent experience.
- Associate degree in a vocational trade preferred.
- Actively monitor and take ownership of optical processing equipment
- Handle delicate optical components and visually identify any abnormal characteristics.
- Maintain area, tooling, and equipment to 5S area standards.
- Identify and escalate any unsafe conditions.
- Identify and escalate any product or process quality concerns in a timely manner.
- Perform assigned work content to support area and factory schedule execution.
- Collaborate with the Production Engineering and Manufacturing Management teams to improve operational efficiency and effectivity.
- Learn and apply skills to tackle progressively more challenging products.
- Identify and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives in how your work is defined and performed, and more broadly within your area, to improve safety, quality, output, and cycle time.
- Learn to inspect and create a map of glass surfaces showing all minute defects.
- Learn to clean optical surfaces of all particles and contaminants.
- Accurately record time and attendance.
- Ensure accuracy of data collection and record keeping
- Comply with safety requirements and participate in safety improvements within your work center.
- Strictly adhere to processing standards and work instructions to obtain consistent quality results.
- Routinely required to sit; walk; talk; hear; use hands to keyboard, finger, handle, and feel; stoop, kneel, crouch, twist, reach, and stretch. Occasionally required to move around the campus.
- May require travel dependent on business needs.
- Must be willing to work in a clean room environment, wearing coveralls, hoods, booties, safety glasses and gloves for entire duration of shift.
- The employee may occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
- Must be comfortable working around lasers, working with ladders, working on platforms, and working around chemicals.
- Must be able to work in a moderate to high noise level environment in a temperature-controlled environment.
- Previous experience working in a manufacturing facility or completion of a vocational certification preferable.
- Prior use of some of the following: measuring equipment desirable: microscopes, calipers, micrometers, coordinate measuring machine (CMM), interferometer.
- Participation in continuous improvement efforts (quality circles, kaizen events, etc.)