Manufacturing Design Engineer- Soft Goods

Apple • Cupertino, CA

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About The Position

In this highly visible role, you will manage selection, implementation, optimization, and scale up of manufacturing processes for our legendary soft goods products. You will utilize your mechanical engineering experience and work across multi-functional teams in Product Design and Industrial Design to assess product features for manufacturability and recommend capable processes and equipment.

Requirements

• BS in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience supporting new product launches from a mechanical, tooling, or product development perspective.
• Experience with mechanical fabricated parts or adhesives, glues, jigs, fixtures, tooling, injection molding, plastics experience is required.
• Deep experience applying Design of Experiments (DOE), Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T), and Statistical Process Control (SPC) techniques.
• Experience leading suppliers’ technical team in the development and qualification of manufacturing process.
• Experience defining & executing mass production qualification requirements.

Nice To Haves

• Experience solving complex mechanical or manufacturing challenges.
• International experience, particularly in Asia.
• Experience with highly cosmetic parts.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage selection, implementation, optimization, and scale up of manufacturing processes for soft goods products.
• Utilize mechanical engineering experience to work across multi-functional teams in Product Design and Industrial Design.
• Assess product features for manufacturability.
• Recommend capable processes and equipment.
• Lead suppliers’ technical team in the development and qualification of manufacturing process.
• Define & execute mass production qualification requirements.

What This Job Offers

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