NPI MFG Eng
About The Position
The NPI Manufacturing Engineer focuses on interfacing with Engineering to ensure new design launches are efficient. This role develops, implements, and maintains methods, operation sequences, and processes in the manufacture or fabrication of parts, components, sub-assemblies, and final assemblies. The engineer will interface with design engineering in coordinating the release of new products, estimate manufacturing costs, determine time standards, and make recommendations for tooling and process requirements of new or existing product lines. This role also maintains records and reporting systems for the coordination of manufacturing operations.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in mechanical/electrical or industrial engineering
- 3-5 years of professional experience
Responsibilities
- Work with the design team to ensure manufacturing DFM/DFX’s are complete with a focus on Axcelis-specific Manufacturing processes for all projects following the Design Review process.
- Attend design reviews.
- Provide manufacturing and assembly insight at all steps from concept generation to production release.
- Push for use of error proof design.
- Ensure common specs are embedded into new designs.
- Support First Article builds for new designs.
- Develop preliminary work instructions and assembly process flows for newly released assemblies.
- Perform PFMEA for PCI and critical assemblies.
- Develop Control Plans as required.
- Review the original drawings prior to release for functional comprehension in a manufacturing environment.
- Minimize new parts release on new design.
- Maximize commonalities and emphasis the use of existing parts.
- Propose structural improvements to ensure the modularity of designs and correct Cell responsibilities.
- Ensure DFA principles are followed by assessing assembly operations is broken as smaller tasks. The criteria for evaluation include shape, orientation, alignment, insertion direction, fastening processes, etc.
- Collaborate with Test Development to ensure that testing requirements for new designs are defined and communicated, and aid in the development of test fixturing as appropriate.
- Develop preliminary designs for build fixtures to aid in assembly on the floor.
- Review CT/CN’s for correct dispositions, BOM structuring, sufficient documentation and routing.
Benefits
- Axcelis Team Incentive bonus plan
- Comprehensive benefits package (for regular employees working 20+ hours a week)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
