Manufacturing Design Engineer
Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
Operations and Supply Chain
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Description
In this highly visible role, you will handle selection, implementation & optimization of manufacturing process for mechanical enclosure subassemblies for our legendary products!
You will have direct frequent communication and collaboration with Apple Industrial Design, Product Design, Manufacturing Design and worldwide suppliers. You will utilize your manufacturing background in the following areas:
PROCESS DEVELOPMENT:
- Utilize Mechanical Engineering experience and work cross functionally with Product Design Engineering and Industrial Design
- Assess mechanical designs and relate design goals to process, equipment, and material requirements to evaluate a set of options to tackle difficult manufacturing problems.
- Develop new manufacturing processes to enable future product design and conducting DOEs to validate process capability.
- Plan validation exercises to demonstrate process feasibility and capability
- Plan, propose, and lead experiments to produce analyses used to drive design, development, and supply chain decisions
- Review progress of development activities at supplier locations and serve as point of escalation for critical process related issues
NEW PRODUCT INTRODUCTION:
- Acts as lead engineer to drive process development and capability assessment activities, reviewing part design documentation to ensure alignment with process capability
- Assign specific tasks and work with Apple suppliers to support process development and/or data gathering activities. Set clear goals for results and provide timely reviews of performance throughout program
- Establish validation procedures to determine acceptance of processes into development builds as well as mass production
SUPPLIER EXECUTION:
- Review supplier tool design, process flow, equipment selection, DFM, and DOE proposals
- Identify shortfalls and corrective actions to ensure design compliance.
- Work with supplier engineering teams to map out process development exercises, secure resources, and commit to schedules in line with program goals. Assess supplier readiness to support build events and production ramp. Identify potential execution issues and provide recommendations to mitigate risk.
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Minimum Qualifications
- 5+ years experience in below areas:
- Supporting new product launches from manufacturing engineering
- Or product development perspective
- Or specific engineering manufacturing process
- Education: MSME/BSME or equivalent
- Fluent English communication required. Chinese is considered as a plus
Key Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with fabricating parts or jigs, fixtures, cutters, tooling, injection molding, casting, plastics, laser, adhesives, automation, machine shop (CNC, mills, lathes)
- Proven understanding of DOE, GD&T, SPC and mechanical fabrication techniques
- Excellent verbal/written communication and presentation skills
- Self-motivated and enthusiastic with demonstrated creative and critical thinking capabilities
- Collaborative and able to fit in well with a team, understand capabilities and priorities while fostering a team environment
- Frequent China domestic, India & Vietnam travel required
- Engineering management or program management background is considered a plus
- Project management experience and a deep understanding of problem solving tools including design of experiments, root cause analysis and statistical process control principles preferred
- NX, SolidWorks or other CAD software experience
- Vendor/factory management experience