# Manufacturing Technician - 2nd Shift

Job Summary: We are seeking an experienced 2nd shift Manufacturing Technician [~ 2 pm to 10.30 pm] to join our Operations group in Budd Lake, NJ. This role involves operating manual and automated grinding, lapping, and polishing equipment to fabricate and finish optical crystals and components. The technician will set up equipment, fixture parts, prepare tooling and abrasives, perform inspections and measurements, document results, and follow established safety and quality procedures. Primary Duties & Responsibilities Crystal Fabrication: Saw, core, grind, drill, shape, lap, and dimension optical crystals using precision equipment, tooling, and fixtures. Crystal Polishing: Prepare polishing tools and slurries; polish crystals to meet specified dimensions, surface finish, flatness, parallelism, radius, and optical quality. Thin-Film Coating: Clean and fixture components; verify part numbers and coating recipes; operate coating equipment and optical monitoring systems; perform post-coating inspection and testing. Optical Inspection: Perform visual, dimensional, surface-quality, spectral, adhesion, and other required inspections using microscopes, gauges, interferometers, spectrometer

- **Id**: 3811944
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/coherent-manufacturing-technician-2nd-shift>
- **Role**: Field & Service
- **Role family**: Field & Service
- **Seniority**: junior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Budd Lake, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T14:32:45Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T06:50:29Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 4
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4481
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Lasers & Laser Systems, Optical Communications, Semiconductor Manufacturing, Optics & Photonic Components

## Company

- **Id**: 58506
- **Name**: Coherent
- **Domain**: coherent.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/coherent-com>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Oracle

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 84
- **Open postings**: 60
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.833
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 4
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 4

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 1
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: associate
- **Optional**: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T14:55:30Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 28 · green card filings: 4; Filings 12m: 28

## Liveness

- **Score**: 31
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.564
- **P room**: 0.55
- **Age days**: 4
- **Expected fill days**: 4
- **Reasons**: conf:0, stale_co, velocity, win:tail, comp:junior,brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

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