Manufacturing Design Opportunities
Apple•Cupertino, CA
About The Position
How do you build a great idea? With more great ideas — the kind of thinking that transforms the work of our industrial designers into the devices that enrich the lives of our customers. Join this team to develop manufacturing engineering solutions that deliver our products with outstanding precision at an unprecedented scale. You’ll help design and customize equipment, build manufacturing processes, refine tooling, identify suppliers, and work with key operations partners to optimize capacity and cost — without losing sight of our incredibly high standards for quality!
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 that deliver products with outstanding precision at an unprecedented scale.
- Design and customize equipment.
- Build manufacturing processes.
- Refine tooling.
- Identify suppliers.
- Work with key operations partners to optimize capacity and cost.
- Own the commercial relationship with enclosure manufacturing partners.
- Responsible for cost negotiations, continuity of supply, risk management, driving operational and cost efficiencies through process or design change, and overall project execution.
- Sit at the intersection of Apple's business activities and engineering communities, and effectively balance the needs of both groups to ensure successful product launches.
- Work in concert with operations, manufacturing quality, and manufacturing design engineers as well as Apple’s Product Design and Industrial Design teams to execute and scale both new and existing manufacturing processes, materials, technologies, finishes and form factors.
- Lead the development and implementation of high precision mechanical manufacturing processes across Apple’s worldwide supply base.
- Bring creativity to Apple’s manufacturing approach, enabling us to deliver our best work to as many customers as possible.
- Contribute to the creation, evaluation, and implementation of end-to-end manufacturing solutions for Apple's hardware enclosures.
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional stakeholders in Quality Engineering, Global Supply Management, Product Design, and Industrial Design in order to ensure our manufacturing solutions meet our product quality, cost, yield, capacity, schedule, and environmental goals.
- Manage and guide development activities of highly skilled process development, operations, and quality teams within Apple’s Manufacturing Design group.
- Lead the team to develop processes for building extraordinary products from existing and new ideas based on business needs.
- Develop measurement technologies, control strategies, information systems, and manufacturing methods that achieve visionary specifications at massive production scale.
- Lead a network of supplier factories worldwide, with responsibility for our partners' delivery to aggressive schedules.
- Ensure the successful launch of the product towards meeting it’s stated Cost, Quality, Schedule, Availability and Customer Experience goals.
- Design and architect the best solutions for the challenges faced when making the highest quality hardware products.
- Drive the development of manufacturing processes across Apple’s worldwide supply base.
- Investigate and develop solutions to overcome ambitious technical tasks that require non-standard manufacturing approaches.
- Lead the development of new plastic injection tooling projects and metal tooling processes in effort to meet a wide range of product performance and cosmetic requirements.
- Act as the interface between our product design groups and our suppliers, and drive development of extraordinary plastic molding and metal forming tooling and processes at our supply base.
