Senior Advanced Manufacturing Manager

Formlabs•Somerville, MA

7d•$120,000 - $225,000•Onsite

About The Position

Formlabs is seeking a Senior Advanced Manufacturing Engineering Manager to join their global headquarters team in Boston. This role is focused on shaping ways of working, solving production line challenges, scaling manufacturing capacity, and transitioning new hardware products into steady-state production. This is not a typical shop floor manufacturing engineering management role at a manufacturing plant. The successful candidate will lead a team of manufacturing engineering professionals supporting global manufacturing, supply chain, and quality professionals. Responsibilities include ongoing sustainment of manufacturing lines at contract manufacturers, transitioning products into production, characterizing process and product failures, conducting root cause investigations, implementing corrective actions, and ensuring mistake-proofing at suppliers and contract manufacturers. The role also involves owning manufacturing process control and issue prevention, driving team collaboration, managing technical readiness for new product introduction (NPI) teams, and overseeing the transition into manufacturing, including FAI resolution and product assembly issues. The goal is to secure mass production capacity, throughput, yield, and process capability.

Requirements

B.S. degree in engineering; mechanical, manufacturing engineering, aerospace, industrial, or related/equivalent field.
3+ years experience in an engineering management or engineering team leadership role.
5+ years of technical skills, preferably experience in manufacturing engineering roles for complex electro-mechanical product industrialization at scale, including machined, sheet metal, injection molded, PCBA, linear motors, LCD, cables, and plastic components.
Experience with remotely managed NPI and contract manufacturers, including transitioning high accuracy products from prototype to mass production.
Expertise in production quality metrics, GD&T, and process/equipment qualification procedures.
Proficient in methods for statistical analysis (e.g. DOE, comparison testing, Gage R&R), structured problem solving (e.g. A3, 8D, DMAIC, fault-tree), and process control (e.g. statistical process control, process capability Cp/Cpk).
Willing to work onsite, in a fast paced environment, and occasionally coordinate with colleagues in different time zones during late evening local hours.
Travel to vendors, suppliers, and production facilities (mostly in China) from time to time (~10-20%)

Nice To Haves

Experience with Proto, EVT, DVT, PVT, and MP product development process & life cycle
A Six Sigma Black Green/Black Belt certified professional who can still apply and teach the problem solving and statistical body of knowledge.
Have experience with data analysis tools (JMP, Minitab) and data visualization tool (Tableau, Power Bi, SQL, etc.)
On Shape of Solidworks CAD modeling skills

Responsibilities

Lead the activities of a team of manufacturing engineering professionals responsible for supporting an extended team of global manufacturing, supply chain, quality professionals.
Ongoing sustainment of manufacturing lines at our contract manufacturers + transition into production and support.
Characterize process & product failures on our manufacturing line, root cause investigations, corrective actions, and mistake-proofing at suppliers and contract manufacturers for component/module/product new builds and refurbishments.
Own manufacturing process (e.g. assembly, printer calibration, verification testing, etc.) control and issue prevention; implementing tools, equipment and process methods to ensure industry-leading reliability, quality, and yield.
Drive team collaboration and support across projects/programs as a player coach on complex engineering and operational challenges.
Own manufacturing technical readiness as a critical member of our cross-functional NPI teams, with specific emphasis on manufacturing return of experience, producibility, cost effectiveness, industrialization; negotiate conflicting requirements, identify lessons-learned and DFM/DFA/DFSS opportunities and share/escalate to upstream design engineers and downstream sustaining engineers.
Manage the details of transition into manufacturing or industrialization, including resolution of first article inspections (FAI) and product/fixture assembly issues; drive maturity of manufacturing readiness; secure mass production capacity, throughput, yield, and process capability.