Manufacturing Design Opportunities

Apple

About The Position

This section outlines various roles within Apple's Manufacturing Design group, focusing on developing and implementing manufacturing solutions for Apple's hardware enclosures. The team is responsible for creating and scaling manufacturing processes, materials, technologies, finishes, and form factors to meet high standards of quality, precision, and cost-efficiency. The roles involve close collaboration with Industrial Design, Product Design, Quality Engineering, Global Supply Management, and worldwide suppliers to ensure successful product launches and mass production. Specific roles include: * **Global Supply Manager:** Owns the commercial relationship with manufacturing partners, responsible for cost negotiations, supply continuity, risk management, and driving efficiencies. * **Manufacturing Design Engineer:** Leads the development and implementation of high-precision mechanical manufacturing processes, collaborating with design teams and suppliers to create end-to-end manufacturing solutions. * **Manufacturing Design Program Manager:** Manages development activities of process development, operations, and quality teams, blending business and technical knowledge to guide the creation of manufacturing processes for extraordinary products. * **Manufacturing Quality Engineer:** Develops measurement technologies, control strategies, and manufacturing methods to meet visionary specifications at scale, leading supplier factories worldwide. * **New Product Operations Program Manager:** Serves as the primary operations interface to product development teams, ensuring successful product launches by meeting cost, quality, schedule, availability, and customer experience goals. * **Software Engineer:** Develops applications and systems that support production from prototype to announcement, used by design and manufacturing teams, as well as suppliers. * **Subject Matter Expert:** Drives the development of manufacturing processes, investigating and developing solutions for ambitious technical tasks requiring non-standard approaches. * **Tooling Engineer:** Leads the development of new plastic injection tooling and metal tooling processes, acting as the interface between design groups and suppliers.

Requirements

Experience in manufacturing, engineering, quality, process development, program management or supply chain management.
Ability to use data to solve problems and make products.
Proven track record of delivering on challenging projects with tight deadlines while managing multiple priorities and stakeholders.
Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey complex ideas to peers, stakeholders and leaders.
BS IE, ME or applicable degree.

Responsibilities

Develop manufacturing engineering solutions for product precision and scale.
Design and customize equipment.
Build manufacturing processes.
Refine tooling.
Identify suppliers.
Optimize capacity and cost with operations partners.
Own the commercial relationship with enclosure manufacturing partners.
Lead cost negotiations, supply continuity, and risk management.
Drive operational and cost efficiencies through process or design change.
Execute and scale new and existing manufacturing processes, materials, technologies, finishes, and form factors.
Lead the development and implementation of high precision mechanical manufacturing processes.
Bring creativity to Apple’s manufacturing approach.
Contribute to the creation, evaluation, and implementation of end-to-end manufacturing solutions for hardware enclosures.
Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to meet product quality, cost, yield, capacity, schedule, and environmental goals.
Manage and guide development activities of process development, operations, and quality teams.
Develop processes for building extraordinary products from existing and new ideas.
Develop measurement technologies, control strategies, information systems, and manufacturing methods.
Lead a network of supplier factories worldwide.
Ensure successful product launch towards meeting stated Cost, Quality, Schedule, Availability and Customer Experience goals.
Design and architect solutions for challenges in making high-quality hardware products.
Investigate and develop solutions to overcome ambitious technical tasks.
Lead the development of new plastic injection tooling projects and metal tooling processes.
Act as the interface between product design groups and suppliers for tooling development.