Lead Engineer, Test Manufacturing

Celestica • Tucson, AZ

3d

About The Position

The Lead Engineer, Test Manufacturing accepts, transfers, installs, improves, and maintains automatic and manual test equipment and test programs used for product testing and design verification. The role may also support the development of test equipment and processes to ensure robust, high-quality test solutions and final products. The position defines, qualifies, supports, and optimizes manufacturing test processes and equipment, and leads test-process improvements across an Operations value stream. Duties are performed in a manufacturing environment and may involve prolonged standing and walking, as well as bending, crouching, kneeling, stooping, or reaching overhead to access machinery and perform maintenance.

Requirements

• Experience with National Instruments automated test equipment platforms.
• Strong knowledge of legacy Windows platforms.
• Ability to read and interpret electrical schematics.
• Strong knowledge of electrical circuits.
• Ability to utilize, troubleshoot, and repair test equipment, including oscilloscopes, soldering irons, multimeters, logic analyzers, function generators, frequency counters, and power supplies.
• Deep understanding of electrical test equipment.
• Extensive knowledge of PC architecture and PC-based test equipment.
• Demonstrated experience with data gathering and analysis.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks while maintaining attention to detail and accuracy and working under tight deadlines.
• Ability to evaluate, prioritize, and solve problems to ensure timely and accurate completion.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office, Windows, and DOS.
• Typically 3 to 5 years of experience.
• Bachelor's degree in a STEM field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Responsibilities

• Define, specify, qualify, install, support, and optimize manufacturing test-process and test-equipment solutions independently.
• Lead test-process optimization focused on cycle-time and yield productivity improvements across a broad set of equipment within an Operations value stream.
• Debug test processes and equipment using design of experiments, tools, and failure-analysis methodologies.
• Collaborate with Quality, Process, and Equipment engineers to identify and resolve product and test yield and performance issues.
• Develop improvement roadmaps for test coverage, diagnosability, reparability, test-time reductions, and OEE.
• Analyze and interpret yield reports, equipment logs, and product diagnostics to determine sources of yield loss.
• Support Process Engineers in improving detection of known defect types as part of a Process Control plan.
• Support integration of test equipment into Manufacturing Execution Systems, including yield, tester-log, and product-parametric information.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior