Senior Manufacturing Process Engineer

Ōura • San Francisco, CA

8h • Hybrid

About The Position

Our mission at Oura is to empower every person to own their inner potential. Our award-winning products help our global community gain a deeper knowledge of their readiness, activity, and sleep quality by using their Oura Ring and its connected app. We've helped millions of people understand and improve their health by providing daily insights and practical steps to inspire healthy lifestyles.
Empowering the world starts with living our values and empowering our team. As a quickly growing company focused on helping people live healthier and happier lives, we ensure that our team members have what they need to do their best work — both in and out of the office.
We are looking for an experienced Senior Manufacturing Process Engineer with extensive experience in high volume consumer electronics applications to join our US team to manage and continuously improve manufacturing processes, bring strong improvements to assembly methods across NPI and sustaining products, bring up new products at contract manufacturer (CM) sites and you will feel comfortable working hands-on at the factory floor and troubleshooting issues that arise on a daily basis.
This is a U.S.-based hybrid role for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay Area, with an expectation of working from the office three days per week. The role includes frequent travel and will require a daily onsite presence in Guadalajara, Mexico, predominately in the first six months. Appropriate work authorization to support traveling and working in Mexico is required.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience working in a Supplier Manufacturing, Process Engineer, or similar roles. Ideally seeking someone with strong mechanical process development and design understanding
• Proven track record working in/with consumer electronics manufacturing. Hands on experience of electronics assembly processes, automation, and collaboration with factories.
• Experience in miniaturized product designs – preferably consumer electronics
• Strong background in bringing up CMs and qualifying products with multiples lines and multiple sites simultaneously.
• Knowledge of manufacturing process parameters and statistical process control as well as experience in developing and fine-tuning process control methods and improving yields.
• You work collaboratively and effectively in a complex environment and with cross-functional teams, external parties, and factories.
• Systematic and organized way of working. You effectively identify and set priorities for the tasks at hand.
• Expectation to travel up to 50% of the time with a minimum of being in Mexico 30+ days at a time

Responsibilities

• Work on-site with contract manufacturers for OURA products to support the execution of world class high-volume ring production ensuring that manufacturing meets the required quality, cost, and delivery targets
• Work independently to devise daily, weekly, and monthly schedules to ensure robust monitoring and reporting of manufacturing performance to the required internal and external teams; this includes implementing and driving recovery actions and plans where necessary
• Work closely with the Manufacturing and Quality teams to run data gathering and design of experiment studies to provide recommendations on process improvements to increase product yield, reduce product cost and support delivery
• Ensure that best practices are communicated and implemented across all contract manufacturers
• Work with the Quality function to understand current and projected field failure rates, then propose and implement solutions to improve field performance to enhance the customer experience
• Manage on-site validation and qualification of new production lines or equipment
• Co-ordinate PRQ validation activities on-site
• Influence functions such as design and sourcing by providing recommendations on current and future product and footprint strategy

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity packages
• Health, dental, vision insurance, and mental health resources
• An Oura Ring of your own plus employee discounts for friends & family
• 20 days of paid time off plus 13 paid holidays plus 8 days of flexible wellness time off
• Paid sick leave and parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed