Senior Manufacturing Engineer, Equipment Supply Chain, Manufacturing Engineering

Google•Austin, TX

11h

About The Position

Be part of a team that pushes boundaries, developing custom silicon solutions that power the future of Google's direct-to-consumer products. You'll contribute to the innovation behind products loved by millions worldwide. Your expertise will shape the next generation of hardware experiences, delivering unparalleled performance, efficiency, and integration. Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering or Mechanical/Electrical Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
Certification in Six Sigma Black Belt.
8 years of experience in manufacturing in a heavy industrial environment, within the data center space or automotive production.
Experience with Lean Manufacturing.
Experience with Data Center cooling.
Ability to travel up to 30% of the time, as needed.

Nice To Haves

Master's degree or PhD in Electrical, Mechanical, Industrial, Materials, or a related engineering field.
Experience setting up manufacturing assembly processes, driving product launches and assembly process optimization within manufacturing operations.
Experience with industry standards, including design guidelines and best practices for data center infrastructure.
Experience with supplier technical evaluations, qualifications, and managing supplier relationships.
Proficiency with engineering and design software for modeling, analysis, and documentation.
Ability to conduct data analysis to identify trends, root causes of defects, and measure manufacturing performance.

Responsibilities

Lead comprehensive design for excellence feasibility reviews and generate design for manufacturing feasibility reports during the concept readiness phase to identify and resolve "red flag" features before design freeze.
Validate mass production readiness through run-at-rate validation reports and line balancing charts to align takt time with cycle time.
Execute vendor capability assessments and factory readiness gap analyses to ensure supply chain maturity. Enforce strict process quality by reviewing process capability reports control plans, and gage repeatability and reproducibility (R&R) reports during the pilot phase.
Advocate risk management by leading process failure mode and effects analysis (with risk priority number (RPN) reduction targets) and conducting pareto analysis and root cause analysis for any manufacturing issues.
Define and validate test strategy and fixture design, overseeing the cut-in of engineering changes (ECOs) to re-validate fixtures as needed.