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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).