manufacturing engineer

operator

equipment technician

line technician

software engineer

Vicor Corporation

Working at Vicor has been a very positive and constructive experience in my collegiate career. The projects I undertook allowed me to:

- Learn what goes on in maintaining a production/assembly line
- Industry standard statistical analysis, graphing and technical writing
- Quality Control (PFMEA, Control Plans)
- Working efficiently with cross-functional disciplines
- Problem solving and associating it to its $ value
- Communicating with vendors
- See how the ISO/TS system works and how it is implemented into a factory setting.
- Broadened my thinking level by forcing me to come up with more than one design/solution for any problem that may occur.

Start day by running priority list of jobs. Choose job to accomplish. Gather tools, drawings, procedures and computer information needed to evaluate product. Use tools to measure or otherwise confirm product meets all requirements to latest revision and Bill of Materials. Check all outside vendor processes are complete and have needed certifications. Enter discrepancies into Non-Conforming material reports if needed. Move material in computer and physically to either M.R.B. or stock. Choose next job. Later, meet with engineer or boss to discuss N.C.M.R. or reject material.

I worked with several engineers, equipment technicians, and operators. There are a lot of great people working there and it is definitely a strong team environment. My role was particularly stressful as an important part of the manufacturing operations. I had trouble convincing HR and management to hire qualified operators for the area I oversaw.

I was excited about the innovation being done at Vicor. Once I started, there was no real training on my team and person I was supposed to be working closely with was always distracted. They were big on micromanaging employees. The work environment for me twas toxic. Had to be in the office even though work could be done remotely. Had to "punch and out" even if you were salary employee. Seemed like there was lack of trust with leadership.

Working at Vicor is a paycheck, but not a very caring culture. Management, doesn't really support WFH for any positions. It's 1950 mentality in terms of how people are treated, I wouldn't recommend working there if it can be avoided. The President of the Company is constantly belittling people and putting them down. Cheap in terms of any type of stock options or bonus programs. That's reserved for the top .5% of management.

Always busy working on multiple tasks, addressing issues that originated from field application or customers, challenging but sometimes stressful.  
The firmware developed has to be perfect, no room for error, otherwise could cause significant damage to the system, need to be well designed. 
HW company, lacking good consistent SW development methodology. 
The hardest part is due to limited debugging capability during the SW development.
Good cafeteria in the company and nice pingpong table for lunch hour play.

As an intern at Vicor I had many opportunities. I began in the SMT department where I worked with solder paste screen printers as well as automated pick and place machines. As I excelled in that role I was asked to move my focus towards the manufacturing of a new product family. I spent the majority of my time at Vicor working on improving process capabilities to develop robust manufacturing processes for the new product line. I worked closely with planning, manufacturing, and design groups to drive towards production.

Vicor is a great entry level company for people trying to get into the manufacturing field. Management Is overall solid, but the pay rate is a little on the low end (it's average considering most of the manufacturing roles are entry level). If you have an engineering background then you can make some serious money. Overall a great company with paid lunches (Cafe which is free) 

Program Managers are flying by the seat of thier pants since roles have changed.  There are no proceses to folllow, no helping each other suceed, lots of pretending to be busy, managment is unorganized with very little knowlegde of the subject matter.

Horrible place - don't even think about it....no matter what enticements or benefits are provided this is a toxic work environment. 
Good ole' boys network from the get go....unfair decision and promotions - this is proven by the huge turn over rate year to year. The technicians stay the engineers and other professionals have mobility and can and DO leave - frequently....about a 25% dept turn over each year....

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Manufacturing engineer 20 salaries reported	$95,592 per year
Operator 18 salaries reported	$44,089 per year
Equipment technician 1 salary reported	$60,165 per year
Line technician 6 salaries reported	$71,383 per year
Software engineer 4 salaries reported	$91,250 per year

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