Staff Engineer: Program & Manufacturing NPI Lead

Celestica; Penang; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Celestica in Bayan Lepas, Penang, Malaysia seeks a Staff Engineer in Program/Project Management to lead design and manufacturing engineers on complex projects and ensure successful DFx closure. You will manage manufacturing readiness and drive phase-gate content for build releases.

Key duties include owning the NPI scope, driving yield recovery, managing risk, and providing manufacturing cost and NRE input for quotations. Travel to build sites is expected for critical builds.

Qualifications

• Eight to twelve years in manufacturing or NPI engineering, including hands-on time on a production line.
• Degree in engineering; programme exposure and customer-facing experience valued.

Responsibilities

• Steer DFx closure for the programme: ensure pre-DFM and pre-DFA run before release and that every finding is routed, owned and closed.
• Write and maintain the manufacturing scope of the Programme SOW, and keep it current through change.
• Sign manufacturing readiness before each build, naming open items with an owner and a date rather than signing around them.
• Raise Process Development Requests when the design needs capability the site does not have, and track them to a committed date.
• Own the manufacturing content of the phase gate package and present it at the gate.
• Drive yield recovery, defect attribution and open-item burn-down on early builds with the TRL and the site.
• Maintain the manufacturing risk register for the programme and close severe risks before DVT exit.
• Assess manufacturability at POC and pre-EVT, and challenge design rules rather than accepting them as fixed.
• Provide manufacturing cost, NRE and fixture input into the quotation before acceptance.
• Own the manufacturing dimension of the NPI RYG status for the programme.

Skills

Manufacturing experience

NPI engineering

Process flow reading

Education

Bachelor degree in engineering

Job description

Celestica in Bayan Lepas, Penang, Malaysia seeks a Staff Engineer in Program/Project Management to lead design and manufacturing engineers on complex projects and ensure successful DFx closure. You will manage manufacturing readiness and drive phase-gate content for build releases.

Key duties include owning the NPI scope, driving yield recovery, managing risk, and providing manufacturing cost and NRE input for quotations. Travel to build sites is expected for critical builds.