Manager - F A

Sanmina; Chennai District; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 1,900,000; Full time

Job summary

Sanmina in Chennai is seeking a Manager – Test Engineering to lead the TE department, mentor the team, and drive KPI attainment through skill development and innovative testing methods. The role emphasizes ensuring equipment readiness, cost-efficient testing, and safeguarding OEE targets during both NPI and ongoing production.

The candidate should possess a Diploma or BE in Electrical/Electronics with extensive experience, strong leadership, and expertise in 8D, CAPA, and problem-solving

Qualifications

• Diploma in Electrical & Electronics Engineering with >20 years experience or BE with 18+ years experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor TE team to meet KPI targets.
• Drive 5S, downtime reduction, FPY improvement and optimization of test processes.
• Coordinate qualification of test equipment and fixtures for NPI and production.
• Support cost reduction through test innovations and capacity planning.
• Ensure SOP adherence and effective CPAs for test-related issues.

Education

Diploma in Electrical & Electronics Engineering

BE in Electrical & Electronics Engineering

Job description

Job Description

Business Title : Manager – Test Engineering - F A.

Roles

The Role of the Manager in Test Engineering / F A department is to lead, guide, mentor and coach the team to meet the TE department KPI thru Skill development thru training, Test equipment innovation, implementing cost-effective methods to ensure no tester down time. Ensuring Tester OEE met or exceed the target. Also ensure SANMINA SOP’s are met during NPI execution and production run.

Academic Qualification / Job Qualification

• Diploma in Electrical & Electronics Engineering / Electronics & Communication Engineering / Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering with more than 20 years experience (or)
• B. E in Electrical & Electronics Engineering / Electronics & Communication Engineering / Electronics & Instrumentation with 18 years experience and above

Required

Skills / competence required to perform the Job:

• Hard Working and Flexible
• Having good analytical skill & Problems solving skills
• Knowledge of 8D, 4M, CAPA, Six Sigma problem Solving methodology
• Continues improvement mind set, Learn and adapt new technologies for cost savings
• Training, Evaluation, Interpersonal & Managerial skills
• Spare cost management knowledge
• Time study and capacity planning knowledge
• Conflict management skills
• Customer communication and presentation skills
• Team Skill matrix knowledge and Appraisal knowledge.
• Test strategy risk analysis and decision making knowledge
• Strong will and leadership skills to drive the team for improvement and implementations

Responsibilities

• Ensure SOP’s are created for team responsibilities related 5S, Spares, Down time reduction, False failure reduction, Change over, Validation, Tester & Fixture buy off, FPY improvement, Escalation, Supplier support, Production plan execution & PM
• Ensure the overall project plan for the Tester Equipment & Test Fixtures validation and qualification are executed on timely manner.
• Lead, Train and guide the team to achieve the department KPI’s.
• Lead the project related to Product yield improvement, Scrap reduction and down time reduction.
• Timely review of the forecast and plan the Tester Capacity for production and debug
• Ensure the SOP’s are followed during the validation of the Test Fixtures and Equipments.
• Ensure SOP’s and checklists are available to ensure supplier developed testers, fixtures and SW are meeting standard requirements
• Daily review meetings to be conducted, summary of the KPI score card should be used to drive for improvement.
• Ensure team participation in CFT meeting and act on the escalated issues.
• Verify the IQ, OQ protocol inputs and WI inputs are meeting the CTQ’s and give improvement feedback.
• Ensure periodic audits are carried out and give improvement feedback to the sustenance team
• Guide the CFT team and Sustenance team on Failure analysis and CAPA on false failures to improve the first pass yield in the ICT and FCT
• Cross check the Installation and Operational qualification plan prepared by the CFT members.
• Ensure preventive maintenance plan for the tester, fixture & burn in chamber etc are executed
• Ensure periodic audit conducted on asset, spares inventory and tally with the ordered vs usage
• Ensure periodic audit conducted on the systems and procedures based on SOP’s, Improvements are implemented based on the new product requirements
• Ensure cross training and skill matrix improvement of the team
• Test innovation projects for cost savings
• Test capacity planning to meet the forecast for the regular and NPI productions
• Quarterly budget planning for the tester spare, improvements and innovations
• Technology road map and Test strategy for the plant to meet the new customers and to meet new technology.
• Active participation in EHS related activities like Identification of aspects and Impacts, HIRA, Emergency preparedness , continuous improvements etc and enable to report about hazardous situations to respective supervisor / department managers as required.

Authority

• Authorized to take quick and correct decisions based on the Test SOPs and Customer

documents.

• Authorized to create Test SOPs documents.
• Initiate CFT discussion related to Line stop due to product quality issues found during ICT / FCT failures related to component, workmanship or process related issues and ensure the solution is provided to restart the line.
• Report the component, FW related failures of the product to customer for resolving and improve FPY
• Authorized to approve the CAPA for the test related issues
• Authorized to approve the IQ, OQ, PQ, validation reports.

Authorized to do appraisal and skill matrix evaluation for team members