Labsphere is looking for a Project Manager based in our North Sutton, NH office. This person will oversee the planning, design, and development of our custom product portfolio. In this role, you will manage project workflow management within engineering including system design, review and release to manufacturing, and product performance and validation testing for unique optical systems. Projects typically involve a combination of optical, mechanical, electrical, and thermal design.

The Project Manager will be expected to coordinate the project through the development life cycle and work with other Engineering and Project Managers to define priorities, assign tasks, and work with production personnel to meet the performance specifications of the project deliverable while having direct responsibility for the project estimations. Beyond project management, you will also be the lead personnel refining processes, effective implementation and coordination with the planning and manufacturing team.

To succeed, the candidate must be a hands-on person and act as a driver to motivate and steer the team to achieve the project goals of the group while satisfying customer requirements. You should be organized, self-motivated, and eager to learn about and develop new technology. The candidate will need to manage multiple projects/tasks and work within a cross-functional team environment to provide creative and innovative solutions to solve challenging problems.

Job Duties:

• Manage all project activities and workflows including scheduling/resourcing, planning, design reviews, interdepartmental liaising, project reporting, and risk management.
• Assist in defining project scope with relevant stakeholders to ensure technical feasibility.
• Responsible for tracking all engineering efforts with focus during the design phase.
• Facilitate design reviews and other forms of communication, to ensure intra and inter-departmental collaboration.
• Interface with engineering leadership, engineers, vendors, sales/customers, and internal production teams to ensure design, build, and test requirements and execution plans are understood and achieved.
• End-to-End project oversight to ensure on-schedule and on-budget execution.
• When appropriate, interface with sales/customers during project execution.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in science, engineering, management, or equivalent
• 2+ years of technical project management experience within manufacturing sector
• Experience guiding multi-disciplinary team tasked with solving technical problems
• Able to balance attention to detail with strategic thinking, risk management, and decision making
• Strong verbal, written and presentation communication skills
• Solid organizational skills with ability to efficiently switch between multiple tasks/projects across the workday
• Self-motivated leader who can positively influence and drive teams
• Project management experience with planning, design management, customer communication, and verification and verification
• Analytical thinker with strong foundation of technical problem-solving abilities
• Fluent with MS Office including MS Project, Planner or similar project management tools
• Ability to work with cross functional teams

Desirable Qualifications:

• Experience with SolidWorks and SolidWorks Simulation
• Experience with ERP systems
• Experience in a field utilizing light metrology and/or optical radiometry
• Experience with any of these topics a plus: Thermal Analysis, LEDs, UV/VIS/NIR applications, Remote Sensing, Light Measurement, Integrating Sphere Design, Optical Sensor Calibration, Optical System Design, Optical Laboratory Methods, and Laser Power Measurement

Labsphere hires based on skills as well as potential. If you possess any of the above skills and have a desire to grow your career by trying new things and taking on greater responsibility, we can provide you with the exposure, experience, and education needed to reach your potential. Additionally, there are opportunities to expand into broader leadership roles and/or technical disciplines, either inside or outside of the Engineering group.

Labsphere and International Light Technologies (ILT), sister companies in the Halma network, specialize in solving some of the world’s greatest challenges – with light! Our core products measure, create, and reflect light, touching industries including medical, automotive, consumer electronics, AR/VR/MR, and remote sensing.

Our core resource is our world-class team of innovators and experts, and we are expanding this team with a new Senior Electrical Engineer. In this role, you will work with the Labsphere and ILT Product Development teams, helping make the next-generation solutions to our customers’ diverse and challenging needs.

Drawing from disciplines including systems, optics, mechanical, electrical, software engineering, and industrial design we’re assembling the capacity to provide even deeper customer collaboration on highly precise opportunities across industries.

The Senior Electrical Engineer will be located in the Peabody MA office, with semi-regular travel to the North Sutton NH location as needed, especially during the initial training period.

Essential Job Functions

As a collaborative Senior Electrical Engineer, you will:

• Work with a team of driven, supportive, and highly skilled professionals in the development of Labsphere and ILT’s next-generation electrical architectures for light measurement, technical lighting systems, and tunable reference calibration systems
• Utilize electrical engineering expertise in a multidisciplinary team to design, build, and test new solutions to meet customer requirements and specifications
• Work closely with and contribute to firmware design in embedded architectures
• Lead and develop new sensor/spectrometer applications within an existing hardware
• Investigate, propose, and build consensus for future technology solutions and design architectures
• Lead the effort to improve configuration management from prototype to production

General requirements

Our ideal candidate brings a wealth of experience and should possess the following:

Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or equivalent technical discipline
• 8+ years of work experience in driving technical solutions in manufacturing and industrial environments
• Hands-on experience developing tightly integrated electrical hardware/firmware systems from concept through volume production
• Expert experience of electronics design in both analog and digital domains, including designing with microcontrollers, layout, simulation, test, and verification
• Experience and drive to plan and implement design process improvements
• Proficient with hardware debugging tools such as multimeters, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers
• Electrical circuit design (low voltage DC such as current regulators, op-amp circuits, communication busses, etc. Some AC power systems)
• Communication protocols such as RS232, USB, RS485, I2C, UART, SPI
• A good communicator and self-starter, capable of working independently
• Experience and drive to plan and implement team design process improvements

Additional Skills Preferred

• Experience with Altium is preferred but we will train if candidate has other experience
• Experience in photonics, spectroscopy, optics, lighting or LED applications
• Experience with low signal to noise measurement and circuit design
• Experience in embedded firmware and application, deployment, and development
• Programming knowledge in MATLAB, Python, Linux, LabVIEW

Qualities

• Excellent skills in planning and communications, strong analytical capabilities, and an attention to detail
• People-centric focus with the ability to collaborate with all teammates across the organization
• Strong initiative, work ethic, and levels of enthusiasm
• Outstanding interpersonal skills, innovation, and the ability to motivate, inspire, and influence cross group/functional teams with a high degree of independence and success 
• An entrepreneurial spirit and mindset, bringing a natural curiosity for what “can be” and the willingness to challenge boundaries
• Ability to deal with ambiguity, navigate uncertain situations, and drive for clarity 
• High standard of ethics and integrity
• A good communicator and self-starter, capable of working independently and solving problems without constant oversight

Labsphere and International Light Technologies (ILT), sister companies in the Halma network, specialize in solving some of the world’s greatest challenges – with light! Our core products measure, create, and reflect light, touching industries including medical, automotive, consumer electronics, AR/VR/MR, and remote sensing.

Our core resource is our world-class team of innovators and experts, and we are expanding this team with a new Electrical Engineer. In this role, you will work with the Labsphere and ILT Product Development teams, helping make the next-generation solutions to our customers’ diverse and challenging needs.

Drawing from disciplines including systems, optics, mechanical, electrical, software engineering, and industrial design we’re assembling the capacity to provide even deeper customer collaboration on highly precise opportunities across industries.

The Electrical Engineer can be located from either the North Sutton NH or Peabody MA office, with semi-regular travel to the other location as needed, especially during the initial training period.

Essential Job Functions

As a collaborative Electrical Engineer, you will:

• Work with a team of driven, supportive, and highly skilled professionals in the development of Labsphere and ILT’s next-generation electrical architectures for light measurement, technical lighting systems, and tunable reference calibration systems
• Utilize electrical engineering expertise in a multidisciplinary team to design, build, and test new solutions to meet customer requirements and specifications
• Work closely with and contribute to firmware design in embedded architectures
• Investigate, propose, and build consensus for future technology solutions and design architectures
• Lead the effort to improve configuration management from prototype to production

General requirements

Our ideal candidate brings ambition and intelligence and should possess the following:

Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or equivalent technical discipline
• 2+ years of work experience in driving technical solutions in manufacturing and industrial environments
• Hands-on experience developing integrated electrical hardware/firmware systems
• Experience in both analog and digital domains, including designing with microcontrollers, layout, simulation, test, and verification
• Experience and drive to plan and implement design process improvements
• Proficient with hardware debugging tools such as multimeters, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers
• Electrical circuit design (low voltage DC such as current regulators, op-amp circuits, communication busses, etc., some AC power systems)
• Communication protocols such as RS232, USB, RS485, I2C, UART, SPI
• A good communicator and self-starter, capable of working independently

Additional Skills Preferred

• Experience with Altium is preferred but we will train if candidate has other experience
• Experience in photonics, spectroscopy, optics, lighting or LED applications
• Experience with low signal to noise measurement and circuit design
• Experience in embedded firmware and application, deployment, and development
• Programming knowledge in C, MATLAB, Python, Linux, LabVIEW

Qualities

• Excellent skills in planning and communications, strong analytical capabilities, and an attention to detail
• People-centric focus with the ability to collaborate with all teammates across the organization
• Strong initiative, work ethic, and levels of enthusiasm
• Outstanding interpersonal skills, innovation, and the ability to motivate, inspire, and influence cross group/functional teams with a high degree of independence and success
• An entrepreneurial spirit and mindset, bringing a natural curiosity for what “can be” and the willingness to challenge boundaries
• Ability to deal with ambiguity, navigate uncertain situations, and drive for clarity
• High standard of ethics and integrity
• A good communicator and self-starter, capable of working independently and solving problems without constant oversight