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About the role

  • Technician Team Manager leading test and assembly technicians at Photonic. Driving safe, high-quality pilot-line execution for scalable, fault-tolerant photonic quantum computers.

Responsibilities

  • Lead, coach, and develop a team of test and assembly technicians
  • Set daily priorities, balance workload across test stations, and manage shift coverage
  • Recruit, onboard, and performance-manage technicians in partnership with HR
  • Provide cross-training opportunities and support internal career growth
  • Build a 30/60/90 onboarding framework and own ongoing technician qualification on each station
  • Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development conversations
  • Own day-to-day execution of test and assembly flow across the pilot line
  • Ensure technicians follow Standard Operating Procedures precisely and consistently
  • Maintain qualification records, training logs, and certification status
  • Translate new test methods into technician-executable SOPs, work instructions, and checklists
  • Coordinate equipment calibration, preventive maintenance, and qualification schedules
  • Serve as the first-line escalation point for station issues and route non-routine troubleshooting to Engineering
  • Champion safety, lab cleanliness, PPE, and handling protocols
  • Enforce change control and authorization requirements for procedures, recipes, and station configurations
  • Maintain records of test runs, anomalies, and station logs for traceability and root-cause analysis
  • Track and report technician-team KPIs including throughput, yield, cycle time, station uptime, and SOP compliance
  • Partner with Test Engineering on failure-analysis feedback and process improvements
  • Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, and automate repetitive tasks
  • Communicate with device, hardware, software, and operations engineers on requirements, schedules, and deliverables

Requirements

  • 3+ years leading technician, operator, or junior-engineer teams in a semiconductor, photonics, optics, or cryogenic R&D / pilot-manufacturing environment
  • Proven experience running a lab or pilot line on SOPs, scheduling shifts, qualifying staff on stations, and enforcing change control
  • Solid working knowledge of semiconductor, optical, or cryogenic test environments
  • Degree (Diploma, BSc, or higher) in physics, electrical engineering, photonics, mechatronics, or a related discipline
  • Experience authoring and maintaining SOPs, work instructions, training programs, and qualification records for a technician team
  • Demonstrated commitment to personnel safety, equipment protection, and risk mitigation in a lab setting
  • Comfortable tracking KPIs including yield, throughput, uptime, and OEE
  • Calm and structured when acting as the first escalation point for hands-on issues
  • Track record of attracting, motivating, coaching, and retaining technical talent
  • Experience building inclusive, high-performing teams from varied backgrounds and experience levels
  • Effective collaboration across Test Engineering, Device Engineering, Hardware, and Operations
  • Excellent interpersonal and written communication abilities
  • Outstanding teamwork skills
  • Able to translate technical direction into clear, actionable instructions
  • Deep hands-on photonic expertise is not required

Benefits

  • Stock options
  • Relocation assistance for global talent
  • Extended health benefits
  • Dental benefits
  • Life insurance
  • Long-term disability coverage
  • Employee assistance program
  • Parental leave top-ups
  • Flexible spending account
  • Inclusive company culture
  • Regular social events and fun activities

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

CA$105,900 - CA$145,600 per year

Degree requirement

Associate's Degree

Tech skills

Assembly

Location requirements

OnsiteCoquitlamCanada

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