Team Lead (Optician)

From powering space exploration and advancing medicine to enabling defense and shaping the optics inside everyday devices — our impact reaches far beyond today. Join the OPTOMAN team as an Team Lead (Optician).

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate the Optician team, drive daily performance management (KPIs tracking, problem escalation, and follow-up actions).

• Own optical quality performance and contribute to achieving key manufacturing KPIs such as Just in Time, Just in Full, Yield, and Rework.

• Develop team capabilities through onboarding, coaching, mentoring, and continuous skills development.

• Ensure cleanroom discipline, contamination control, and handling standards are consistently followed to protect optical surface quality.

• Drive continuous improvement initiatives by identifying quality risks, process inefficiencies, and opportunities to improve repeatability, quality, and productivity.

• Lead investigations of optical quality issues and nonconformities, ensuring root cause identification and implementation of corrective and preventive actions.

• Coordinate cross-functional problem-solving activities with Manufacturing, Engineering, Quality, Operations, and Technical Sales teams.

• Ensure reliability and capability of optical measurement systems, work instructions, documentation, and traceability requirements remain accurate, up to date, and audit-ready.

• Support qualification of new products, suppliers, materials, and manufacturing processes from an optical quality perspective.

• Apply Lean manufacturing principles (5S, standard work, waste reduction) to improve process stability and efficiency.

Core mission Build and lead a high-performing optics team that consistently delivers reliable optical quality, develops internal expertise, and continuously improves processes, ensuring stable manufacturing performance and customer satisfaction.

Required superpowers

• Bachelor's degree in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, Physics, Optics, Photonics, Engineering, or a related technical field.

• 5+ years of experience in a manufacturing, laboratory, optical, coatings, or quality-focused environment.

• Previous experience coordinating, mentoring, training, or leading technical specialists.

• Strong understanding of quality control principles, process discipline, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement methodologies.

• Experience working with technical measurements, quality data analysis, and process performance indicators.

• Ability to identify risks, prioritize activities, and make sound decisions in a fast-paced production environment.

• Strong organizational, planning, and delegation skills.

• Experience driving process improvements and implementing standardized ways of working.

• Lithuanian C1-C2 and English B2-C1.

Rewards

• Competitive compensation: €3,200–€4,800 gross + annual bonus scheme (final offer based on your expertise and scope).

• €1,000 annual personal benefits budget (MELP): choose what fits you best - health insurance, 3rd pillar pension, or other wellbeing/perks.

• Extra time off that grows with you: +1 paid day off on each work anniversary (up to 5 extra days), on top of standard annual leave.

• Stock option opportunity: a chance to share in long-term value creation and contribute to meaningful growth initiatives.

• Learning & growth support: a flexible L&D budget for relevant courses, certifications, workshops, and conferences (with a simple approval process).

• Team & work support: a separate budget for team-building and work-related tools/items, plus an additional phone budget.

• Great people, healthy culture: a supportive, collaborative team with a superhero mindset - we help each other win - plus company-wide events throughout the year.

• Strong onboarding: structured onboarding, training, and dedicated mentors to help you ramp up smoothly.

• Referral rewards & life moments: referral bonus for successful hires, and one-time support for special occasions (marriage, birth of a child, and other significant life events, per policy).

If you're ready to challenge limits and stand behind work that changes industries and improves lives, you might just belong with us.

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