Manufacturing Engineer: NPI & EMS Collaborator

Cobham Sa; Kongens Lyngby; On-site; DKK 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Cobham Satcom seeks a Manufacturing Engineer to bridge product development and production, coordinating with R&D and external EMS partners in Denmark. You will prepare new products for manufacturing, oversee transfers, and ensure robust, scalable processes and documentation.

You will lead DFx activities, drive risk assessments, PFMEA, control plans and qualification efforts, while collaborating with internal teams to optimize readiness and manufacturing success.

Qualifications

• Strong practical understanding of electronics manufacturing and industrialization.
• Experience with contract manufacturers / EMS partners is advantageous.
• Experience with NPI, product transfers or production ramp-up in an international environment.
• Solid knowledge of DFM/DFA, PFMEA, process validation and production readiness.
• Ability to translate engineering requirements into scalable manufacturing solutions.
• Comfortable working across R&D, Operations, Quality, Procurement and suppliers.
• Ability to own and drive technical topics independently as priorities evolve.

Responsibilities

• Prepare new products for production and manage production transfers across sites and EMS partners.
• Act as the Manufacturing Engineering interface between R&D, test engineering and EMS partners.
• Lead DFM/DFA activities and ensure early manufacturing considerations in product development.
• Define manufacturing concepts, processes, tooling and workflows with stakeholders and EMS partners.
• Drive readiness and robustness via risk assessments, PFMEA, control plans and capability evaluations.
• Support pilot builds, validation, qualification and ramp-up across sites and partners.
• Drive root cause analysis and continuous improvement with external manufacturers.

Skills

Electronics manufacturing

Industrialization

Cross-functional collaboration

NPI

Product transfers

DFM/DFA

PFMEA

Process validation

Manufacturing readiness

Root cause analysis

Job description

Cobham Satcom seeks a Manufacturing Engineer to bridge product development and production, coordinating with R&D and external EMS partners in Denmark. You will prepare new products for manufacturing, oversee transfers, and ensure robust, scalable processes and documentation.

You will lead DFx activities, drive risk assessments, PFMEA, control plans and qualification efforts, while collaborating with internal teams to optimize readiness and manufacturing success.