Global Supplier Industrialization Engineer — Wire Harness/PCBA

Namely; South San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Overtime pay

Discretionary bonuses

Sales incentives

Medical, dental and vision insurance

Paid time off

Job summary

Zipline Needs Wire Harness and FPC/FFC assemblies that can be built consistently at scale and perform reliably in the field. As a Harness Supplier Industrialization Engineer, you will own the bridge between product design and supplier execution, from advanced development through mass-production qualification.

You will partner with engineering teams and contract manufacturers to make designs manufacturable, qualify production processes, confirm capacity, and close supplier-driven quality issues.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in electrical, industrial, or mechanical engineering or equivalent experience.
• Experience leading new-product industrialization and project management across engineering teams and contract manufacturers.
• Strong knowledge of wire harness and FPC/FFC assembly processes and design rules for reliable production.
• Experience with PPAP and RCCA, fishbone analysis, process mapping, and 5S.
• Direct experience improving supplier or contract-manufacturer quality, process capability, capacity, or production execution.
• Clear written and spoken English for communicating technical requirements and corrective actions across teams and suppliers.

Responsibilities

• Provide design-for-manufacturing guidance for wire harness and FPC/FFC assemblies, partnering with engineering teams on assembly design rules.
• Lead supplier industrialization during new product introductions, owning critical-to-quality alignment from advanced development through mass-production qualification.
• Assess and recommend supplier readiness using PPAP evidence, quality-control processes, critical-to-quality requirements, and demonstrated production-line capacity.
• Audit supplier manufacturing processes onsite and drive improvements to meet Zipline quality, capacity, cost targets, responsiveness, and efficiency.
• Own supplier-caused field-quality failures through containment, supplier corrective action requests, root-cause analysis, and verified corrective-action closure to prevent recurrence.
• Support supplier quotations as the manufacturing technical expert by evaluating process feasibility and informing manufacturing cost targets.

Skills

Project management

Wiring harness / FPC/FFC

PPAP / RCCA

Process improvement

English communication

International travel

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Industrial/Mechanical Engineering

Job description

Zipline Needs Wire Harness and FPC/FFC assemblies that can be built consistently at scale and perform reliably in the field. As a Harness Supplier Industrialization Engineer, you will own the bridge between product design and supplier execution, from advanced development through mass-production qualification.

You will partner with engineering teams and contract manufacturers to make designs manufacturable, qualify production processes, confirm capacity, and close supplier-driven quality issues.