Process Technician

The Process Technician will provide daily technique support for production and also help engineer carry out process improvement projects in their defined area of ownership; maintain processing/working standard, monitor process performance, maintain efficient manufacturing workflow. Process Ownership: Vacuum coating, Optical Cleaning & Handling, Optical polishing, Optical Measurement.

• Process performance monitoring and production support:
• Maintain workmanship standards and ensure they are followed.
• Maintain process documentation; covering steady state production and recovery methods for dealing with out-of-limit or out-of-specification situations.
• Provide specialist assistance on production issues.
• Engineering support
• Helping and monitoring engineering experiments.
• Monitoring process limits and control measures.
• First call on troubleshooting out-of-control and out-of-specification process issues.
• Support engineers resolving process performance issues
• Work with maintenance engineers to understand limitations on process capability and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Help research & development projects.
  
  Strong problem solving abilities.
• Hand on skill in operating processing equipment.
• Knowledge of manufacturing execution systems (MES) or manufacturing resource planning (MRP) system would be an advantage, though full training will be provided.
Personal Attributes:
• A self-motivated, self-starting technique specialist with the ability to plan and prioritise own work within a guidance framework provided.
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong attention to detail.
• Continuous Learner - a willingness to research and fill knowledge gaps as necessary.
• Competent computer user (including the use of Microsoft Office).
  
  Novanta, Inc.
• Taunton, Somerset
• Permanent
• Full-time
• 1 day ago
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