Job Responsibilities
Lead and/or direct engineering resources in the development and improvement of processes and equipment. Achieve low-cost manufacturing, superior quality/service, and improved capability/capacity.
Required Skills and Qualifications
- Leadership Skills: Demonstrated delivery of results through project and organizational leadership, including technical accomplishments such as sustainable incremental improvements and step changes in capability/performance.
- Priority Setting: Ability to identify objectives and achieve them effectively.
- Independence: Ability to work independently in a dynamic manufacturing environment.
- Technical Knowledge: Materials fundamentals, Prompt Engineering, OSI PI or similar, Databricks.
- Analytical Skills: Data-driven decision-making, data collection, process control, statistical tools (Pareto, Control Charts, Process Stats, Stratification, Histograms, Process Capability Analysis, Hypothesis testing, MSA, etc.).
- Management Skills: Organization, DMAIC methodology, project management, time management, action planning, follow-up.
- Manufacturing Knowledge: Lean manufacturing.
- Personal Attributes: Team-oriented, ethical awareness, social commitment.
Education
- Bilingual in English and Spanish.
- Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical, Electronics, Mechatronics, or Industrial Engineering; a master's degree is a plus.
Work Experience
- 4-6 years in a similar role or experience in process/manufacturing engineering, quality, new product introductions, or product engineering in a multi-product manufacturing environment, using statistical process control or quality control & risk assessment, leading multiple senior engineers and technical resources.
- Experience in project management, product transfer, or new equipment implementation projects.
Desired Skills
- Presentation skills at all levels.
- DMAIC Green Belt certification; Black Belt is a plus.
- Experience with process audits and certification.
- Knowledge of fiber connectivity science.
- Financial analysis skills for project justification.
- Experience benchmarking with foreign vendors to implement manual process improvements.
- Proficiency in MS Office, especially MS Excel, MS Word, and SPC XL.