Senior Manufacturing Engineering Manager

Location: Thailand - Pathumthani (Navanakorn)

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing!
We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.

If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!

What do we do?

Lumentum (NASDAQ: LITE) is a market-leading manufacturer of innovative optical and photonic products enabling optical networking and commercial laser customers worldwide. Lumentum’s optical components and subsystems are part of virtually every type of telecom, enterprise, and data center network. Lumentum’s commercial lasers enable advanced manufacturing techniques and diverse applications including next-generation 3D sensing capabilities.

Lumentum is headquartered in San Jose, California with R&D, manufacturing, and sales offices worldwide. For more information, visit www.lumentum.com.

The Senior Manufacturing Engineering Manager is a strategic engineering leadership role responsible for driving manufacturing process excellence with primary ownership of Alignment process engineering for Cloud products. This role serves as the Alignment Process Engineering Lead, partnering closely with Manufacturing, R&D, Product Engineering, Quality, NPI, and Global Engineering teams to deliver robust, scalable, and high-yield manufacturing solutions across the product lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

Alignment Process Engineering Leadership

• Serve as the Alignment Process Engineering Lead, owning end-to-end process performance, capability, and readiness.

• Define and drive alignment process strategies, including process windows, tolerances, equipment capability, and control plans.

• Lead development, optimization, and standardization of alignment processes aligned with global manufacturing standards.

• Act as the primary escalation point for complex alignment-related yield, quality, and reliability issues.

Manufacturing Engineering & Product Industrialization

• Drive manufacturing engineering strategies to support product development, NPI, volume ramp, and sustaining operations.

• Ensure alignment process readiness and integration with upstream and downstream manufacturing steps.

• Own process risk assessment, trade-offs, and mitigation plans for alignment-related manufacturing topics.

New Product Introduction (NPI) & Lifecycle Support

• Lead alignment process engineering activities for NPI, product transfer, and production ramp-up.

• Partner with R&D and Product Engineering to drive Design for Manufacturability, Assembly, Test, and Reliability with strong focus on alignment robustness.

• Ensure structured qualification , release, and documentation of alignment processes and equipment.

Yield, Quality & Cost Performance

• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to improve alignment yield, process capability, throughput, and cost of goods.

• Lead structured problem-solving and root cause analysis (DOE, SPC, 8D) for alignment-related manufacturing and field issues.

• Collaborate with Quality and Engineering to ensure compliance with internal and customer requirements.

Cross-Functional & Global Collaboration

• Act as the alignment process interface between Thailand manufacturing and global engineering teams.

• Collaborate with Operations, Supply Chain, Equipment, and Automation teams to support capacity, productivity, and cost objectives.

• Provide clear executive-level communication on alignment process performance, risks, and readiness.

People Leadership

• Lead, coach, and develop alignment and manufacturing engineering teams to build strong technical depth and ownership.

• Foster a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence.

• Support talent development, succession planning, and capability building within the engineering organization.

Safety, Health & Environmental (EHS) Leadership

• Demonstrate strong visible leadership and commitment to EHS standards and compliance.

• Promote and sustain a Zero Accident Culture across manufacturing engineering teams.

• Review EHS performance and effectiveness, identifying gaps and driving continuous improvement actions.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Electrical, Mechanical, Optical, Physics, or related field); Master’s preferred.

• 10–12+ years of experience in manufacturing or process engineering within high-tech manufacturing environments.

• Deep hands-on expertise in precision optical or mechanical alignment processes.

• Proven leadership experience at Senior Engineer or Engineering Manager level.
  Strong experience supporting NPI, volume ramp, and sustaining engineering.

• Solid knowledge of SPC, DOE, PFMEA, process capability analysis, and continuous improvement methodologies.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.

• Excellent stakeholder management and executive communication skills.

• Experience working in a global / matrix organization.

• Fluent English communication required.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.

We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

Please contact us to request accommodation.