Principle Assembly Technician

Nordson Advanced Technology Singapore; Singapore; On-site; SGD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in Singapore seeks a Principal Assembly Technician to support manufacturing of optical sensors. This role includes developing diagnostic procedures, building and calibrating sensors, and collaborating with engineering teams. Candidates should have an AS degree and significant Assembly Technician experience, with strong troubleshooting skills and knowledge of optical systems. The position may require up to 30% travel and offers core hours from 6:00 AM to 2:30 PM.

Qualifications

• Minimum of two years AS degree with 5 years of Assembly Technician experience.
• Strong troubleshooting skills relevant to sensor and system design.
• Knowledge of optical capabilities and opto-mechanical assemblies.

Responsibilities

• Develop procedures for diagnostics and troubleshooting techniques.
• Build, align, and calibrate sensors using various tools.
• Support Manufacturing and Engineering departments with testing and troubleshooting.

Skills

Troubleshooting skills

Understanding of drawings and specifications

Experience with adhesives and epoxies

Lean manufacturing experience

Experience in ERP system (SAP)

Education

AS degree

Tools

Hand tools

Light meters

Multimeters

Alignment telescopes

Lasers

Job description

Principle Assembly Technician

The Principal Assembly Technician will support Manufacturing and Engineering with complex engineering duties and/or hands‑on tasks. The candidate will be involved with the overall manufacturing of optical sensors, sub‑systems, fixturing and systems for advanced optical inspection technologies. They will coordinate with hardware and software manufacturing engineering teams. Assist in the development of performance models and test procedures. This candidate will be the focal contact between the production cell and the Manufacturing Engineering department. This role will report directly to the Production Supervisor.

Key Responsibilities and Essential Functions:

• Develop procedures for diagnostic, troubleshooting techniques and methodology for components, sub‑systems and final assembly of optical sensor applications.
• Responsible for building, aligning, and calibrating sensors using hand tools, light meters, multimeters, alignment telescopes, autocollimators, theodolites and lasers.
• Assist Engineering and Quality departments with troubleshooting customer returned products and systemic failures within the manufacturing processes and test methods.
• Support Manufacturing and Engineering department with testing and troubleshooting, analyze test results and adjust equipment to bring it within specifications, set up and conduct precision optical and mechanical measurements.
• Coordinate with other departments to install, align, troubleshoot, calibrate and document changes. Ability to assemble and test products using diagrams and generate assembly and test plans from them.
• Participate in daily production communication meetings to resolve manufacturing issues such as process, fixtures, capacity and materials to achieve the production build plan.
• When required, the candidate can be assigned to support production capacity to meet revenue plans.
• Ability to read mechanical drawings, production build processes and test procedures.
• Requires a broad understanding of the job and applies skills and knowledge in a range of processes, procedures and systems or requires deep skills in a single area.
• Work closely with Production, Quality and Customer Service to disposition and diagnose customer returns RMA (Return Merchandise Authorization).

Experience, Education, and Competencies Required:

• Two years AS degree with 5 years of Assembly Technician experience.
• Ability to understand drawings, specifications, procedures, and geometric tolerances.
• Strong troubleshooting skills to decipher between sensor and system design, fixture or software issues.
• Experience with adhesives, glues, epoxies used for opto‑mechanical assemblies.
• Knowledge and experience with scratch/dig optical capabilities.
• Experienced in Lean manufacturing – continuous improvement by developing process map, spaghetti diagram, time studies, line balancing and value stream mapping.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision but does not supervise others. The individual will not give work direction and will provide input to create solutions for process change considerations to be approved by the Manufacturing Engineer or Production Supervisor.
• Experienced in ERP system (SAP) and Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook).
• Core hours: 6:00 am – 2:30 pm.
• Travel: up to 30%.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to talk and listen. The employee is frequently required to stand and sit.