Staff Engineer, NPI

CommScope; Ciudad Juárez; Presencial; MXN 900.000 - 1.200.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

CommScope is seeking a Staff Engineer, NPI to join the Bermudez Team. The role supports global NPI with multiple product launches per year, driving manufacturing readiness and transfer to sites. Strong Lean, DFx, PFMEA, and packaging strategy expertise are expected.

Travel up to 30% nationally and internationally. The successful candidate will partner with R&D, procurement, and manufacturing to optimize design for assembly and cost.

Formación

• 6-10 years of experience in similar position.
• Proven product knowledge and technical/innovation skills.
• Effective problem solver which makes an impact to the bottom line.
• Proven leadership skills that can effectively communicate across organization.
• Availability to national and international travels, 30% of the time.

Responsabilidades

• Participate on a cross functional development team responsible for 2 or more product launches per year.
• Review Make vs Buy for each new component requested by R&D.
• Develop process steps, cycle times, costs, line balancing, operators needed per module assembly.
• Analyze the grouping of modules to determine best division between pre-assembly and final assembly.
• Develop packaging strategy for modules and final assembly, including end-of-line vs packaging station.

Conocimientos

Fiber products

Lean manufacturing

NPI process

Supply chain

Cross-functional collaboration

Herramientas

AMADA

TRUMPF

CINICINATI

LINCOLN equipment

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Location:

Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico

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Fiber evolution to drive your AI revolution

At the furthest frontiers of innovation, CommScope Data Center Solutions is committed to helping our partners and customers think bigger, build better and evolve smarter in their data center and central office connectivity strategies. As the collaborative, go-to authority for high-density, low-latency fiber-optic infrastructure, CommScope Data Center Solutions helps the world’s networks scale up, scale out and scale across.

With the global manufacturing capacity to meet customers’ ambitious growth, our solutions help conquer network complexity, accelerate deployments and deliver long-term evolutionary performance. Together, we help operators stay ahead of evolving AI applications and increasing demands.

We are looking for Staff Engineer, NPI to join our Bermudez Team.

How You'll Help Us Connect the World

As a Staff NPI Engineer, work within the Global NPI organization to be a key team member on a cross functional development team responsible for 2 or more product launches per year. The role will be a key team member on a cross functional development team responsible for multiple product launches per year. High visibility position across top leadership within CommScope. Ability to work and grow technical skills in a team environment with efforts focused on releasing new products or transferring products to a manufacturing location within the engineer’s site or region.

• Deep understanding of Fiber products, manufacturing processes, and assembly processes.
• Experience using Lean manufacturing tools, DFM, LDSS, PFMEA with an eye for manufacturing simplicity. Experience with the NPI process and working with a cross functional, multi-cultural team.
• Experience with streamlining supply chain for raw material and intra/inter-plant supply.
• Ability to form cohesive relationships across Global sites and leadership functions to find ways on “How we can make it happen” approach.

Education and Experience Required

• 6-10 years of experience in similar position.
• Proven product knowledge and technical/innovation skills.
• Effective problem solver which makes an impact to the bottom line.
• Proven leadership skills that can effectively communicate across organization.
• Availability to national and international travels, 30% of the time.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Participate on a cross functional development team responsible for 2 or more product launches per year. Apply lean concepts, knowledge of existing manufacturing capability, design for manufacturing, and design for Six Sigma experience to guide the team to a robust design.
• Review Make vs Buy for each new component requested by R&D. Ensure regional availability, working with NPI procurement, and ensure the standard component database is used by R&D to select appropriate fasteners.
• Develop process steps, cycle times, costs, line balancing, operators needed per module assembly or groups of modules.
• Analyze the grouping of modules made by the team to determine where the best division should be between pre-assembly and final assembly.
• Develop creative ideas for transportation and internal logistics of Kanban’s, materials, assemblies, process lines, material handling to enable <1min changeovers. Production layouts. Includes space requirements.
• Define Kanban locations, bin levels, RM storage, WIP storage, FG storage. The expectation is minimal operator involvement, and visual/automatic Kanban refills.
• Define the process map with assembly times number of operators, line balancing, skills needed, assembly Mfg processes needed (e.g. welding) and other tools.
• Define and develop tool lists, and a creative way to keep up with them. Create support documentation and assist in the creation of work instructions to use the tools. This includes ideas on how to improve the cycle times using the tools, and ideas on how to eliminate the tools using automation.
• Develop the packaging strategy for modules and final assembly. End of line vs packaging station.
• Develop templates for CommScope to use on future modules/products.
• Design for manufacturing and feedback to R&D.
• Design for Six Sigma and feedback to R&D.
• PFMEA and feedback to R&D.
• Design Costing.
• Final assembly design/ layout.
• Work with the Global team to develop concepts for the assembly line for the future. Looking also to be modular and highly flexible to allow for changing demand and our space constraints.
• Determine how best to eliminate all paper from the line and most operator inputs. Work instructions, continuous process checks, process data, and production data need to be very operator independent.
• Facilitate the handoff of the product designs to the local teams for production ramp up.

You Will Excite us if you Have:

• Deep understanding of Fiber products, manufacturing processes, and assembly processes.
• Desired experience in sheet metal manufacturing processes, such as cutting, forming, joining, and finishing (powder coating).
• Desired experience on working with AMADA, TRUMPF, CINICINATI and LINCOLN equipment.
• MBA.

Why CommScope:

CommScope is on a quest to deliver connectivity that empowers how we live, work, and learn.Our employees push the boundaries of communications technology that enables game-changing discoveries like 5G, the Internet of Things, and gigabit speeds for everyone, everywhere.With our unmatched expertise in copper, fiber, and wireless infrastructure, our global clients rely on us to outperform today and be ready for the needs of tomorrow.

If you want to grow your career alongside bright, passionate, and caring people who strive to create what's next...come connect to your future at CommScope.

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