Coating Tooling Technician – Cleanroom & Optics

Socket.dev; Budd Lake (NJ); On-site; USD 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Coherent Corp. is seeking a Manufacturing Technician for its Budd Lake, NJ coating operations. You will prepare coating tooling by bead blasting, cleaning lines, and drying tools, ensuring readiness for production while maintaining a cleanroom environment.

You will inspect tool surfaces with a microscope, perform surface quality checks against drawings, enter work orders in the MRP system, and help restock consumables to keep the coating department running smoothly.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED.
• Must be able to lift up to 40 lbs.
• Demonstrated ability to see and handle small parts.
• 5+ years previous experience in a lab or manufacturing environment, using a microscope.
• Must be able to work on repetitive tasks.
• Basic data entry skills.
• Must be able to stand for up to 45 minutes at a time.
• Willing/able to work in a cleanroom environment, fully gowned.
• Willing/able to work with minimal exposure to chemicals such as methanol and IPA.

Responsibilities

• Load tooling into bead blaster.
• Refill & clean blaster when necessary.
• Maintain automated clean-line; replace detergents when necessary, replace filters & clean tanks.
• Load optics into fixtures; clean & inspect under a microscope.
• Determine if surface quality is fully compliant to specific customer drawings/specifications.
• Inspect and final clean per production schedule.
• Unload coated crystals from fixtures & inspect surface quality under a microscope per ANSI, Mil standard or ISO.
• Perform reflectivity testing on spectrophotometers or lasers based on product wavelengths.
• Enter WO data into MRP system in preparation for shipment.

Job description

Coherent Corp. is seeking a Manufacturing Technician for its Budd Lake, NJ coating operations. You will prepare coating tooling by bead blasting, cleaning lines, and drying tools, ensuring readiness for production while maintaining a cleanroom environment.

You will inspect tool surfaces with a microscope, perform surface quality checks against drawings, enter work orders in the MRP system, and help restock consumables to keep the coating department running smoothly.