About - JPSA
Careers at JPSA in Excimer, DPSS and Ultrafast Laser Micromachining and Automation
JP Sercel Associates, Inc. is a world leader in excimer and DPSS laser micromachining technology. Our dedicated team works together to provide customers with the highest level of satisfaction and quality service support.
We continuously offer our employees a challenging and rewarding work environment along with long standing job security. Our benefits package including:
Health Insurance
401(K) Plan
End of the year Profit Sharing
Life Insurance
JPSA is conveniently located in beautiful Merrimack Valley Region of New Hampshire; minutes from major highways, and historical downtown Manchester NH. Boston, the Atlantic Ocean, major ski resorts and mountains for hiking are all within an hour of JPSA.
Due to our continued expansion, we are searching for employees who are of the highest professional caliber within their technological fields of expertise to become part of our team.
Executive Assistant
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Coordinate and assist with implementing projects, processes and procedures.
- Edit and compile print materials
- Organize data and prepare reports as needed
- Assist with basic bookkeeping and financial reporting
- Schedule meetings, update calendar and provide follow up assistance
- Gather and organize information to ensure that accurate and detailed records are maintained
- Assist with the preparation and organization of financial, marketing and HR materials
Qualifications/Skills Required:
- Excellent communication skills to facilitate corporate goals
- Ability to work independently and accurately
- Must be able to work with all levels within the organization
- Ability to multitask and prioritize projects
- A Bachelors degree and a minimum of 5 years experience as an Executive Assistant
- Excellent computers skills and familiarity with finance software
Electrical Technician – System Integration
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Produces electrical harnesses from Bills of Materials and schematics
- Assembles and wires electrical boxes used in machine builds
- Tests electrical subsystems
- Assists in the integration of modules into a working machine
- Performs machine start up and debugging of electrical systems
- Builds test fixtures for electrical modules
- Configures systems computers with hardware and software
- Works with engineering to feedback design problems and resolve them for future builds using the ECO system.
- Technical electrical degree or equivalent work experience
- Experience in manufacturing to ISO9000 standards
- Computer literacy – competence with MS Office modules and past experience working with ERP systems
- Prototyping and fabrication skills
- Ability to read schematics
- CAD experience helpful
- Ability to lift 70 pounds safely
- Valid driver’s license
- Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in a fast pace environment
- Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram or schedule form.
- Familiarity and understanding of Harmonized Codes
Production Planner
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Creates and maintains a master schedule to reduce customer lead-times to acceptable levels as established by the marketplace.
- Acts as a liaison with other areas of company supply chain, including procurement and operations.
- Prepares defined work packages, including detailed instructions, drawings, bills of material, references, and inspection requirements to initiate and control production work.
- Coordinates kitting sequence with material handling team members.
- Plans and schedules workflow for each work center to achieve delivery obligations.
- Expedites operations that delay schedules and alters schedules to meet unforeseen conditions.
- Prepares and contributes detailed production reports as part of the monthly operations reporting process.
- Performs monthly work order auditing and physical inventory.
- Analyzes and interprets construction of bills of material to verify proper operations and resources are specified.
- Ensures all parties and fully cognizant of production status, and that work planning and execution objectives are integrated and communicated.
- Coordinates and expedites the placement of purchase orders and/or delivery of material.
- Schedules, expedites and coordinates the delivery and movement of critical material including material transfers.
- Coordinates the resolution of WIP discrepancy reports.
- Initiates Engineering Change Requests to correct bill of materials deficiencies.
- Implements engineering change orders as related to work in process materials.
- Four-year degree within business administration, operations management or a related field.
- Must be organized, as creating processes, best practices and time lines are the primary functions of this role.
- Ability to think in short and long terms.
- Ability to communicate effectively with staff, vendors and customers.
- Strong attention to detail is imperative.
- Experience in Visual Manufacturing is preferred
- 3+ to 5 years experience in a capital equipment manufacturing environment.
- Strong computer and communication skills.
Excimer Laser Engineer
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Manage excimer laser projects and provide product development and performance requirement solutions
- Coordinate the design, assembly, testing and production of standard and R&D excimer laser systems and components
- Plan and execute experimental test programs with carefully documented data and reports
- Design and test modules and conduct detailed analysis of lasers and laser components.
- Interface with Manufacturing to ensure that the laser systems conform to engineering designs and customer specifications
Qualifications/Skills Required:
- Bachelor of Science degree in Physics or Engineering with a minimum of 5 years UV laser experience; M.S. or PhD degree is preferred
- "Hands on" experimentalist with strong electronics and PC background
- Experience with the design and implementation of high voltage discharge circuits, gas lasers, vacuum and systems
- Knowledge of automation systems for lasers
- Excimer laser experience is required; additional background in short pulse or solid state lasers is a plus in electrical engineering with a minimum of 5 years experience working with motion control assemblies.
Manufacturing Technician
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Assembly of mechanical subassemblies and systems
- Modification of raw materials into components using manual and power tools
- Assists in the generation of new product or subassembly documentation and work instructions
- Provides feedback to engineering regarding errors or omissions in existing documentation
- Keeps production area clean and orderly
- Disposes of obsolete documentation when job is complete.
- Assists in the completion of ERP work order paperwork for proper processing and costing of jobs
- High school graduate.
- Neat, accurate, and consistent work.
- Craftsman skill level with assembly hand tools and light power tools.
- Assumes responsibility for own work.
- Works well independently.
- Attention to detail and ability to retain communicated information.
- Ability to guide other technicians for short periods of time in absence of supervisor.
- Appropriate communication skills to convey information to other associates and supervisors.
- Understands when to request guidance from superiors and proper chain of command.
- Ability to lift 70 pounds safely.
Opto Mechanical Engineer
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Create innovative opto mechanical designs for optimizing laser performance
- Conduct detailed analysis of opto mechanical components and subsystems
- Design & test optical beam delivery systems for commercial and R&D projects
- Provide accurate documentation of technical information and engineering drawings
Qualifications/Skills Required:
- B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering, Physics, or equivalen plus 5 years of engineering design and product development experience
- Knowledge of motion controls and laser machining systems
- Proven expertise with 3D design tools such as SolidWorks
- Proficiency with Zemax software is required
Laser Repair Technician
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Disassembly and reassembly of critical laser modules and subassemblies without direct supervision
- Integration of refurbished modules into working systems
- Follows test procedures and generates test/acceptance data for review by team leaders and quality assurance
- Disposes of obsolete documentation when job is complete.
- Assists in the generation of new product or subassembly documentation and work instructions
- Assists in the completion of ERP work order paperwork for proper processing and costing of jobs
Qualifications/Skills Required:
- High school graduate.
- Certification to company standards based on job training and testing
- Neat, accurate, and consistent work.
- Craftsman skill level with assembly hand tools and light power tools.
- Assumes responsibility for own work.
- Works well independently.
- Attention to detail and ability to retain communicated information.
- Ability to guide other technicians for short periods of time in absence of team leader.
- Appropriate communication skills to convey information to other associates and supervisors.
- Understands when to request guidance from superiors and proper chain of command.
- Ability to lift 70 pounds safely.
Laser Repair Group Manager
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Leads the manufacturing effort for excimer laser products.
- Co-develops excimer laser products with R & D engineering
- Directs the disassembly & reassembly of excimer lasers and subsystems.
- Writes work instructions and documentation to support standardized work in the laser manufacturing and refurbishment area.
- Trains and supervises laser manufacturing and refurbishment technicians.
- Organizes work flow to minimize waste and contain total costs of assembly operations.
- Maintains accurate training records and uses them to assign work to trained technicians.
- Monitors capacity of group against open jobs and requests more help or utilizes overtime to compensate for short term shortages of capacity.
Qualifications/Skills Required:
- B.S. degree in Engineering or Physics or equivalent work experience
- Understanding of manufacturing methods used in excimer laser assembly
Exp in manufacturing to ISO 9000 standards - Training in Lean manuf. techniques
- Highly organized - Exp in training & leading techs
- Computer literate - MS office modules - ERP systems expexperience
Systems Test Engineer
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Installs and tests JPSA products to prepare for customer acceptance.
- Tests and verifies critical subassemblies before returning to stock or shipment to customers for spare parts.
- Writes and maintains test and inspection procedures
- Coordinates company resources to meet promised ship dates for sales orders.
- Provides verbal and written feedback to production and refurbishment groups pertaining to quality discrepancies with product delivered to the systems test group.
- Assigns group resources to projects for customer orders and R&D efforts
- Uses the ECO process and corrective action process to drive product and process improvement
- Initiates the warranty history records for new JPSA products upon successful completion of test processes
- Actively participates in production meetings to assist in the timely completion of systems
Qualifications/Skills Required:
- B.S. in a technical discipline or equivalent experience
- Five years of experience testing and operating computer controlled capital equipment utilizing motion control components.
- Laser and optical systems operation experience preferred
- Minimum of three years of supervisory experience in technical service environment
- Strong knowledge of MS Office modules
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills
Customer Care Specialist
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Coordinate and assist with implementing projects, processes and procedures
- Back-up for current travel planner in creating and managing travel arrangements including airline, car and hotel accommodations for the Customer Service and Department.
- Provide administrative support with regards to extended service agreements and repair and order status through the CRM system
- Consult with appropriate internal and external resources to ensure accurate and complete information is available for customers
- Complete return merchandise authorizations (RMA); arrange for replacement shipments or support field corrective action/replacements accordingly
- Maintain an accurate daily log of all activities, initial contacts and follow-ups
- Edit and compile print materials
- Assist with basic bookkeeping and financial reporting
- Schedule meetings, update calendar and provide follow up assistance
- Gather and organize information to ensure that accurate and detailed records are maintained
- Organize data and prepare reports as needed
Qualifications/Skills Required:
- A Bachelors degree and a minimum of 5 years experience in similar positions is required.
- Excellent communication skills to facilitate corporate goals
- Ability to work independently and accurately
- Must be able to work with all levels within the organization
- Ability to multitask and prioritize projects
- Familiarity with CRM and ERP systems
- Excellent computer skills and familiarity with finance software is required.
Laser Field Service Engineer
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Installing laser systems and accessory components for customers worldwide.
- Troubleshooting, refurbishing and optimizing laser system performance.
- Mechanical and optical assembly of lasers and subsystem components.
- Routine maintenance of in-house and customer laser systems.
- Providing system training for laser operators.
- Responsible for the completion and submission of field service reports and weekly expense reports.
- Effectively communicating with customers.
Qualifications/Skills Required:
- A Bachelor’s degree in an appropriate area of engineering and/or science; exceptional combinations of education and experience may be considered.
- Previous field service experience is desired. Solid mechanical understanding; ability to analyze, evaluate, and assess complex and intricate mechanical components.
- Considerable knowledge of and ability to apply analog and digital electronics. This involves a basic understanding of troubleshooting techniques and approaches.
- Requires strong computer skills. Ability to prepare reports and other appropriate documentation.
- Ability to work well with clients and co-workers.
- Results-oriented, team player with a can-do attitude.
- “Hands on” Engineer with 2 – 5 years’ related experience – background in UV excimer and solid state lasers is a plus.
Working Conditions:
- Work is performed at client locations, requiring travel to the client’s business by car or airplane, as appropriate.
- Must maintain courteous, professional, and effective working relationships with employees at all levels of the organization.
- Must be available to travel extensively on short notice including work during non-standard business hours, weekends and holidays.
- Ability to lift, pull or push objects weighing up to 50 lbs.
Laser Applications Engineer
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Production activities in our state of the art laser job shop and applications laboratories, ensuring that a quality product is delivered to our customers as well as monitoring system performance.
- Problem solving with regard to system performance - either in system design, tooling design or processing technique.
- Reviewing the weekly production schedule with the department manager, deciding on optimum laser system and beam delivery
- Setting up and running customer jobs on laser equipment to production schedule and all associated duties from “in process inspection” of production parts using a number of analytical methods to signing off the work order and breaking down the machine.
- Setting up new systems and performing final acceptance with the end customer. He/she will provide customer support and training on the best use of JPSA’s equipment.
- Sample work – Engineers are encouraged to read professional publications and develop application work based on manufacturing trends and problems. He/she will be involved with writing of reports, publishing and presenting papers as applicable.
Qualifications/Skills Required:
- Minimum of a Bachelors degree in engineering or physics, along with 5 years directly related work experience. An advanced degree is preferred.
- Knowledge of laser systems and technology, beam delivery components and concepts, geometric optics, and laser-material interactions are important to perform these tasks effectively.
- Excimer – DPSS experience preferred
- R & D laser processing – handling – promoting
- Excellent communication skills to effectively communicate with customers, sales and engineering staff
- Hands-on ability to work in a fast-paced, high tech laser company
- Proven technical expertise and the ability to work as a team player
Director of Finance
Successful candidate will serve as a key business partner to the President and owners. The goal in creating this position is to bring into the company a financial executive who can take JPSA to a higher level of sophistication in financial planning, reporting and analysis.
This is a hands-on position that requires an individual who is detail oriented in both financial and operational matters, but who can:
- Provide strategic insight and guidance to the financial affairs of the company.
- Manage an existing finance and IT department.
- Manage cash and build upon and enhance the existing budgeting and control systems.
- Expand the company's relationship with public accounting firm as well as maintaining ties with JPSA's bank.
- Set up and manage high growth environment in international business - including setting up and controlling foreign ventures and managing remote locations.
Qualifications/Skills Required:
- Consummate business professional with minimum of five years professional experience as a senior controller in a manufacturing environment.
- Cash management experience including cash flow planning, forecasting and maintaining financial performance ratios.
- Strong cost accounting, inventory management and results analysis experience required.
- Successful track record in setting up and managing high growth environment in international business
- Demonstrated ability to effectively work within a private company's organization, communicating clearly and delivering results.
- Effective communicator/leader who works well as a member of an executive team and possesses impeccable integrity
Safety Engineer
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Assist in the development and implementation of a safety program to prevent or correct unsafe environmental working conditions, using knowledge of industrial processes, mechanics, chemistry, psychology, and industrial health and safety laws.
- Examine plans and specifications for new machinery or equipment, as well as facilities, to determine if all safety precautions have been included.
- Tour plant to inspect fire and safety equipment, machinery, and facilities to identify and correct potential hazards and ensures compliance with safety regulations.
- Investigate industrial accidents to minimize recurrence.
- Be responsible for CDRH laser compliance and certification filings.
- Conduct safety training, write safety procedures, update manuals, and complete required documentation.
Qualifications/Skills Required:
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college in a related discipline, with 2 years of professional experience in an industrial facility.
- Knowledge and experience with high voltage equipment, lasers and chemical hazards is also preferred.
- 1 - 4 years experiences in a training/safety work discipline.
- Must possess the ability to administer in-house safety and training programs.
- Proficiency in the use of the basic Microsoft office suite; functional in the development of databases and spreadsheets.
- Knowledgeable of OSHA, ANSI, and state safety and health standards and regulations.
- Must possess the ability to perform job hazard analysis.
- Understanding of general industry techniques, practices and standards as they apply to training.
- Must possess the ability to develop solutions to a variety of problems of moderate scope and complexity
Director of International Business Development
LED Market. To prepare and administer a strategic business plan for the LED market, coordinate work of functional managers, guide company in targeting key accounts in the worldwide LED industry and direct the creation of product specifications and development plans.
JPSA provides employees with a competitive benefits and salary package that includes medical insurance, 401k plan, life insurance, profit sharing bonus as well as paid vacation and holidays. Please contact Human Resources or fax your resume and cover letter to 603-518-3298.
JPSA is currently searching for Manufacturer’s Representatives in selected regions of Europe, Asia and South America.
News and Events
JPSA Laser provides excimer and Diode Pumped Solid State (DPSS) laser micromachining solutions for:
- Thin film PV patterning
- Laser scribing
- LED Lift-Off (LLO)
- Laser dicing
- Silicon edge isolation
- Ink-jet nozzles
- Microfluidic devices
- Micro vias
- Annealing and doping
- Parylene ablation
- Concentrator photovoltaics
See JPSA at:
EU PVSEC
Feria Valencia, Spain
Septemeber 6-9
Booth L3/H4/A29
