08 - Operations Engineering Specialist 1
About The Position
Incumbents apply in-depth knowledge in a specific area of specialization. Work is performed within established professional standards and practices. Works on problems of moderate scope where analysis of situations or data requires a review of identifiable factors and a considerable degree of judgement. Erroneous decisions or failure to achieve results may have a negative impact on the divisions/departments operations, schedules, and/or performance goals. Works under minimum Supervision. Seeks approval from others on matters outside of job/role scope. Receives instruction on specific assignment objectives and possible solutions. Unusual problems are solved jointly with manager. Work is reviewed for application of sound technical judgment. May lead a work group or project team consisting of technical and support staff. Builds internal and external relationships, with emphasis on those that facilitate the achievement of job/role accountabilities, such as relationships with key suppliers, customers and internal service.
Requirements
- Engineering Foundation Competencies
- In-depth knowledge and understanding of the design process for systems and printed circuit boards, subassemblies, or other related company products.
- In-depth knowledge of manufacturing processes and equipment used for systems and printed circuit boards and subassemblies.
- In-depth knowledge of industry and quality standards and SPC methodologies.
- In-depth knowledge of materials and components used in the construction of systems and printed circuit boards and subassemblies.
- In-depth knowledge of material science, robotics, machine programming.
- In-depth knowledge of product pricing, contracts and contract negotiations.
- Excellent customer contact, negotiation and problem resolution skills.
- Good presentation, database management and computer skills.
- Strong knowledge of statistical process control methods and techniques.
- Knowledge and understanding of the design process for systems and printed circuit boards.
- Ability to design tests, evaluate results and recommend solutions to improve the processes associated with SMT and optical manufacturing.
- Ability to evaluate, diagnose and troubleshoot problems.
- Strong knowledge of IT platforms, database design and programming languages.
- Strong knowledge of some or all of the following: UNIX, NT, database management system.
- Ability to evaluate materials, gather and analyze data and determine root cause of problems.
- Ability to manage several projects simultaneously and coordinate multiple, changing deadlines.
- Ability to effectively communicate with a variety of internal and external customers.
Responsibilities
- Provides technical expertise on assigned materials for production or customer-identified material problems.
- Performs assessments/risk analysis and quality audits on potential suppliers.
- Generates product specifications and provides to supplier.
- Performs material qualification on prototype / sample material.
- Serves as the program/project interface to coordinate new product launches / introductions.
- Translates customer requirements into factory activities, provides factory activity time estimates for pricing model, documents associated factory support activities, and develops preliminary program timeline for customer quote.
- Defines process problems that lead to throughput or quality issues, evaluates cause of problem, implements solutions to stabilize processes, evaluates results.
- Participates in the selection of new manufacturing equipment.
- Evaluates software and hardware upgrades and new equipment.
- Sets equipment specifications and develops and runs qualification tests.
- Gathers, understands and converts customer data into usable manufacturing information.
- Verifies that specifications conform to customer, industry and company standards.
- Gathers, analyzes, sorts and distributes data to understand and solve quality issues.
- Creates and evaluates metrics to drive the quality improvement process.
- Develops test processes, test fixtures and specialized tools to automate test development.
- Develops assembly/test processes, associated fixtures, and specialized tools.
- Automates where ever possible.
- Develops and implements assembly/test strategy for new products including DFx analysis and feedback.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
