NPI Engineer - ATC

TTM Technologies, Inc.; Chippewa Falls (WI); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

401K

Flexible Spending Account

Health Savings Account

Accident benefits

Life insurance

Disability benefits

Paid vacation & holidays

Job summary

TTM Technologies, Inc. is seeking an ATC NPI Engineer to ensure successful launches of new products at the Chippewa Falls site.

You will oversee NPI builds, serve as a process resource before release, and support manufacturing on the floor to meet schedule, cost, and quality targets. You will work with the Director of Operations, Sales, FEE and Process Engineering to mitigate manufacturability risks and drive process improvements using new materials.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering or related discipline.
• 10+ years of engineering and production activities related to IC Substrate/PCB industry is preferred.
• Intermediate level drawing / blueprint interpretation skills is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Interface with Director of Operations, sales, FEE and Process Engineering to identify barriers to manufacturability and coordinate actions to meet timing, quality and cost targets.
• Collaborate with material vendors to develop processes using new materials and drive experiments.
• Participate in DFM meetings as an active participant.
• Identify cost concerns and communicate with the Quote Team to minimize impact on production.
• Support Process Engineering and Quality on NCRs and yield solutions and assist with customer calls as needed.
• Drive technical and production readiness reviews prior to volume release and help maintain technology roadmap.

Skills

Negotiation

Project management

Communication (technical)

Self-motivated

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

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About TTM

TTM Technologies, Inc. is a leading global manufacturer of technology products, including mission systems, radio frequency (\"RF\") components, RF microwave/microelectronic assemblies, and technologically advanced printed circuit boards (\"PCB\"s). TTM stands for time-to-market, representing how TTM's time-critical, one-stop design, engineering and manufacturing services enable customers to reduce the time required to develop new products and bring them to market. Additional information can be found at www.ttm.com.

Position

The ATC NPI Engineer is responsible for ensuring successful launch of New Product coming into Chippewa Falls. Oversees all aspects of the NPI builds and serve as a process resource prior to release and when the product is processing on the floor.

Duties and Responsibilities

The NPI Engineer will interface closely with the Director of Operations, TTM sales, FEE and Process Engineering to identify potential barriers to manufacturability by understanding the customer’s end application of the product and TTM’s capabilities by coordinating required actions to minimize impact to meeting production timing, quality and cost targets.

The NPI Engineer at ATC will work closely with material vendors on solutions and drive experimentations to develop processes using new materials.

Display the capability to recognize potential cost concerns that can be communicated accordingly to the Quote Team.

The individual will attend all DFM meetings as an active participant.

Recognize and suggest for improvement processing concerns to avoid potential risks to the product.

Support site Processing Engineering on technical issues and process holds.

Support Process Engineering and Quality Engineering on NCRs and yield solution.

Support customer calls as needed.

Drive Technical and Production readiness review prior to releasing volume production.

Drive Capability at ATC to ensure we stay on track to technology roadmap.

Monitor and manage new products through all stages of ideation, design, development and production ramp-up.

Create robust project action plans, utilizing appropriate software for tracking timelines and assignments to satisfactorily meet customer expectations.

Provide customer-focused input on CF-ATC Technology Roadmap and process capabilities to ATC Director of Operations and Substrate Director of Engineering.

When necessary, create a technical presentation that can be communicated to higher levels of the organization as it relates to the manufacturing of the Substrate or Substrate like PCB.

Identify gaps between project performance and desired results, proactively working towards problem resolution with all parties.

Working with site FEE team, evaluate high-risk customer designs and stack-ups, coordinate testing to validate reliability of designs and stack-ups and provide logical feedback to customers with proposed solutions to mitigate risk.

Develop and maintain positive working relationships with TTM’s Field Application Engineers and customers’ technical contacts.

Drive profitability through proposals for product differentiation based upon IC Substrate/PCB knowledge, CF-ATC capabilities and customer needs.

Analyze customer designs for manufacturability and propose changes to affect improvements in cost, quality and/or lead-time.

Maintain knowledge of state-of-the-art industry technologies as related to TTM-ATC technology production strengths.

Skills and Knowledge

Solid knowledge of the entire IC Substrate/PCB manufacturing process, including initial process flows, individual production and processing steps, and required tooling.

Strong negotiation skills and the demonstrated ability to drive indirect reports toward project goals.

Strong project management skills with demonstrated ability to break down complex projects into clear action plans.

Ability to communicate technical concepts and issues to non-PCB industry professionals and verify understanding.

Thorough understanding of TTM-ATC manufacturing capabilities and technologies is preferred.

Awareness of material attributes and processing concerns and capable of communicating with customers.

Strong written and oral communication skills to effectively work with customers design teams.

Self-motivated and able to work with minimum supervision.

Desired Education and Experience

Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering or related discipline preferred.

10+ years of experience in engineering and production activities related to IC Substrate/PCB industry is preferred.

Intermediate level drawing / blueprint interpretation skills is preferred.

Experience in more than one functional production area is preferred.

Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite is preferred.

Compensation and Benefits

TTM offers a variety of health and well-being benefit programs. Benefit options include

• medical


• dental


• vision


• 401K


• Flexible Spending Account


• Health Savings Account


• accident benefits


• life insurance


• disability benefits


• paid vacation & holidays

Benefits are available 1st of the month following date of hire.

Compensation for roles at TTM Technologies varies depending on a wide array of factors including but not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set and level of experience. As required by local law, TTM provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in New York, California and Colorado. For California-based roles, compensation ranges are based upon specific physical locations.

Export Statement

• a) being able to identify ITAR product on the manufacturing floor and understand that access to these products and related technical data is restricted to only US Citizens and US Permanent Residents


• b) recognition of Foreign Person visitors by badge differentiation


• c) understand and follow authorization procedures for bringing foreign visitors into facilities (VAL)


• d) understand the Export and ITAR requirements for shipments leaving the US


• e) manage vendor approvals for ITAR manufacturing and services

Equal Opportunity Statement

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, disability or protected veteran status.

About TTM (duplicate)

TTM Technologies, Inc. is a leading global manufacturer of technology products, including mission systems, radio frequency (\"RF\") components, RF microwave/microelectronic assemblies, and technologically advanced interconnect products, including PCBs and substrates. TTM stands for time-to-market, representing how TTM's time-critical, one-stop design, engineering and manufacturing services enable customers to reduce the time required to develop new products and bring them to market. Additional information can be found at www.ttm.com.

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