11 - Sr Staff Engineer, Program/Project Management-Risk Management & QA

Celestica•Richardson, TX

21h•Onsite

About The Position

The Manager of Portfolio Manufacturing Risk & Technical Task Force is a strategic, cross-functional leadership position responsible for overseeing the full manufacturing risks across all active hardware programs, projects, and products. Rather than focusing on a single customer or dedicated product line, this leader operates as the central Manufacturing Risk Dashboard Owner, possessing an absolute, bird's-eye view of the entire operational portfolio. The primary mission is to spot cross-program similarities, detect systemic patterns of risk, and establish comprehensive manufacturing standardization. Operating with broad systemic authority, this role is responsible for triggering macro-level process improvement projects and mobilizing technical Task Forces to intercept and resolve critical manufacturing or process excursions before they threaten high-volume production milestones.

Requirements

6+ years of specialized experience in high-tech electronic manufacturing, operations data science, or NPI systems management, with a clear history of tracking multi-program portfolios rather than isolated lines.
Advanced proficiency designing or managing complex engineering metrics dashboards (e.g., Tableau, PowerBI, Jira Query Language, or parallel automated manufacturing databases) to isolate systemic similarities and defect correlations.
Deep foundational expertise in pFMEA structures, NUDD risk analysis frameworks, CTQ parameters, statistical process control (SPC), and structured crisis problem-solving methodologies (8D, Shainin, Kepner-Tregoe).
Exceptional cross-functional communication and authority; proven ability to command cross-functional engineering cells, trigger corporate capital expenditure/standardization projects, and articulate macro operational exposures to executive leadership boards.

Responsibilities

Architect, own, and maintain the master Manufacturing Risk Dashboard, providing corporate and operational leadership with real-time visibility into active risk thresholds across all program portfolios.
Analyze cross-program manufacturing variables to identify similarities, parallel failure modes, and recurring risk behaviors across distinct customer pipelines and product typologies.
Aggregately track NUDD (New, Unique, Different, Difficult) vectors, golden pFMEAs, and Critical-to-Quality (CTQ) trends to identify systemic engineering blind spots before physical prototyping commences.
Synthesize localized risk lessons into enterprise-wide manufacturing standards, ensuring uniform pFMEA controls, custom assembly rules, and test coverage parameters are mandated across all production networks.
Initiate and champion wide-scale, structural process improvement or tooling optimization projects when dashboard data indicates a recurring risk pattern across multiple independent product lines.
Ensure post-mortem analysis data is standardly infused back into early co-development frameworks run by Front-End, Back-End, and Test engineering teams.
Serve as the executive authority to instantly trigger and assemble high-urgency, cross-functional engineering Task Forces when critical, cross-cutting manufacturing risks breach dashboard thresholds.
Provide high-level oversight to active crisis teams, tracking micro-milestones and resolution trajectories in automated systems (e.g., Jira) without getting bogged down in single-account administration.
Enforce strict macro containment directives, including cross-portfolio material purges or floor alerts if a localized component anomaly poses an exposure risk to parallel programs.
Partner with the Front-End Senior Manager to audit portfolio-wide SMT assembly variables, tracking recurring large-form-factor BGA warpage and reflow optimization trends.
Collaborate with the Back-End Senior Manager to assess systemic robotic cell defects, torque assembly constraints, and common rack-level cooling loop integration pain points.
Engage with the Test Senior Manager to ensure portfolio-wide test diagnostic scripts (ICT/FCT/SLT) adapt to neutralize escape risks identified via dashboard tracking.