Company Profile

Coherent empowers market innovators to define the future through breakthrough technologies, from materials to systems. We deliver innovations that resonate with our customers in diversified applications for the industrial, communications, electronics, and instrumentation markets. Headquartered in Saxonburg, Pennsylvania, Coherent has research and development, manufacturing, sales, service, and distribution facilities worldwide.

The Finisar Germany GmbH, a Coherent subsidiary serves multiple businesses within Coherent. One focus area is the development of leading-edge high performance, high capacity optical front-end solutions for long reach optical transmission. A special field is utilizing advanced photonic technologies in support of driving highly integrated coherent products. Another focus area is high speed detectors, scaling up to frequencies of up to 100GHz, utilized in research and test & measurement but more and more in communication applications too.

We owe our worldwide technological leadership to the profound knowledge and experience of our employees. This awareness characterizes our corporate culture - which is open and communicative and ensures trusting cooperation. Each individual contributes to the company's success with his or her knowledge and responsibility. The passion and commitment of our team are the engine of our company!

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead cross-functional and intercontinental product development projects within Coherent. This role requires excellent communication skills and the ability to drive execution across globally distributed teams in combination with a strong technical understanding.

• Manage complex product development projects from concept through industrialization.
• Define project scope, milestones, schedules, and deliverables.
• Coordinate intercontinental teams across Europe, North America, and Asia.
• Facilitate communication, align priorities, and ensure transparency among global stakeholders.
• Manage project risks, budgets, resources, and timelines.
• Drive cross-functional collaboration between R&D, Test, Operations, Quality, and Product Line Management.
• Prepare and execute project reviews and maintain project documentation.

Qualifications

• Degree in engineering, physics, or related technical field; PMP/IPMA certification is a plus.
• Several years of experience managing complex technical development programs.
• Proven leadership of interdisciplinary and geographically distributed teams.
• Strong understanding of photonics, optics, semiconductors, or high‑tech hardware development.
• Excellent communication, organizational, and problem‑solving skills.
• Strong English skills; German proficiency is a plus.

Your Chance

We offer an interesting and diversified opportunity in an internationally minded engineering team of a market-leading high-tech company in the field of high-speed optoelectronic components. You will find a creative and productive work atmosphere in a flexible work environment that shares the desire to succeed and a fascination for technical challenges and technological progress. We provide the following additional benefits:

• Flexible working hours
• 30 vacation days (overtime on top)
• Health benefits package including additional health insurance or fitness program
• Financial support for public transport or parking spot
• Bike lease program
• Bonus and private pension scheme

Your Application

If you are interested, then please apply using the button below. We are looking forward to hearing from you. Feel free to contact Lisa Weiland at lisa.weiland@coherent.com for further information.