Pre-Production Engineering Manager (PCB Manufacturing)

AdvancedPCB•Placentia, CA

10d•$90,000 - $115,000•Onsite

About The Position

AdvancedPCB is seeking a reliable, motivated Pre-Production Engineering Manager to join our growing company. This position is responsible for meeting the goals and operational objectives of the Pre-Production Engineering Department, focusing on quality, productivity, and cost objectives. The manager must partner with other support departments, such as customer service, product technicians, applications engineering, and tooling software support to ensure business objectives are met. Success in this role depends heavily on leadership, communication, teamwork, and a sense of urgency.

Requirements

Associate degree (A.A.) or equivalent from two-year college or technical school; or 2–3-year related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
5 + years of experience with PCB CAM and Planning processes and methodologies.
Must be a U.S. person as defined by ITAR (U.S. citizen, U.S. lawful permanent resident, or individual with refugee/asylee status).

Nice To Haves

Excellent organizational and leadership skills.
Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Demonstrated team leader with good negotiating skills.
Must have a thorough knowledge of the company’s goals, objectives, and vision.
Familiar with Frontline Genesis, Planning (InPlan) and Oracle MRP Software Modules.

Responsibilities

Ensure that all business objectives are met in the areas of quality, productivity, cost, delivery, and capacity.
Staffing – interview, hire, train, coach, develop and discipline.
Establish and maintain high employee morale.
Exercise judgment and sense of urgency in reacting to constantly changing business needs and daily unplanned demand.
Out-Sourcing – Avanzada Printed Technology.
Schedule and assign the daily workflow and overall throughput for all PPE processes.
Provide direct support to all PPE personnel and be a single point of contact for manufacturing in resolving issues.
Select and develop personnel for complex tooling orders such as blind and/or buried via, sequential lamination, cavity, selective plate and/or microvia designs.
Ensure the timely integration of incoming data analysis, design rule checks and data cleanup activities with those of panelization and NC programming.
Using organization resources, apply specific technical and/or tooling knowledge to develop new ideas and strategies with-in the department.
Based on in-depth knowledge of manufacturing capabilities responds to requests from customers and manufacturing for customized tooling.
Continuous improvement – lead efforts with Tooling Software Support.
Actively drive process improvement activities and emphasizes training and documentation to improve the tooling operation.
Represent the tooling department at various management level meetings.
Continually improve the quality, workflow, and throughput of the Pre-Production Engineering processes.
Work directly with Manager to identify improvements and to implement new changes.
Foster a spirit of teamwork and unity among department members that allows for disagreement over ideas, conflict and expeditious conflict resolution, and the appreciation of diversity as well as cohesiveness and working effectively together to enable each employee and the department to succeed.
Consciously create a workplace culture that is consistent with the overall organization and that emphasizes the identified vision, guiding principles, and values of the organization.