Product Engineer

Flex; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Flex is seeking a Product Engineer in Salt Lake City, UT, to receive, evaluate, and customize customer product data for manufacturing readiness. You will work with the engineering team to ensure design integrity and support production with engineering inputs.

The role involves DFM and DOE activities, interacting with customers and internal departments, and managing engineering changes while maintaining compliance with safety and documentation standards.

Qualifications

• BS degree or equivalent in a related field.
• Ability to apply advanced mathematical concepts and statistics to analysis.
• Experience interpreting engineering drawings and CAD data.

Responsibilities

• Receive, evaluate, and customize customer product information for manufacturing readiness.
• Perform DFM, tolerance evaluation, and DOE to identify root causes.
• Support production by addressing engineering issues on the line.
• Interact with customers and internal teams on product issues.
• Manage engineering changes and update work instructions.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Communication

Education

B.S. in related field

Tools

CAD software

CAD interpretation

Electrical testing tools

Job description

Flex is the diversified manufacturing partner of choice that helps market-leading brands design, build and deliver innovative products that improve the world. A career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference and invest in your growth in a respectful, inclusive, and collaborative environment. If you are excited about a role but don't meet every bullet point, we encourage you to apply and join us to create the extraordinary. We’re looking to add a Product Engineer located in Salt Lake City, UT. Reporting to the Engineering Manager , the Product Engineer will be responsible for receiving, evaluating, cleaning, and customizing all technical information / documentation from the customer related to their product, derived from a New Product Introduction (NPI) or a design change to establish all necessary processes to manufacture it by maintaining its design and performance integrity.

What a typical day looks like:

• Handle product transfer and new product set up.
• Support production by assessing product engineering issues of diverse scope that arise on production line.
• Suggest improvements to process to obtain improved quality and production yield.
• Solve product related problems and perform failure evaluation related to product issues.
• Interact with customer and various departments on product related issues
• Work with design team to resolve design related issues.
• Suggest modification to work instructions, material, or product changes to ensure excellent quality of products.
• Customer´s Bill of Material (BOM) evaluation and structure definition for production
• Functional Product Documentation review
• Safety Requirements and regulations compliance identification
• Engineering Drawings Interpretation of parts and assemblies.
• Request customer for drawing corrections, additions, clarification, measurements methods
• Manage Engineering Changes Implementation
• Conduct Design for Manufacturing (DFM), tolerance evaluation, Design of Experiment (DOE), form-fit-function to define failure root/cause evaluation and reporting to customer
• Provide support to supply chain to integrate parts derived from the vertical integration or localization effort
• Provide product training to the manufacturing/process engineers for better understanding of the product.
• Request, handle and administrate golden samples, engineering samples of final product and/or piece parts
• Establish, operate, and maintain a standard method for technical information interchange with the customer to control and preserve information of NPI transferred projects
• Inspection of customer product parts and assemblies through model files using Computer-aided Design (CAD) system
• Evaluate and identify course of action of Product Change Notification (PCN) and Manufacturing Change Order (MCO)
• Ability to take additional responsibilities of the Manufacturing Engineer depending on the size and complexity of the customer product.

The experience we’re looking to add to our team:

• Typically requires a Bachelor of Science Degree in related field or equivalent experience.
• Ability to apply advanced mathematical concepts such as exponents, logarithms, quadratic equations and permutations. Ability to apply mathematical operations to such tasks as frequency distribution, determination of test reliability and validity, analysis of variance, correlation techniques, sampling theory and factor analysis.
• Ability to analyze problems, design experiments, conduct a design for manufacturing analysis, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form, and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
• Knowledge on metrology measurement methods, engineering drawing interpretations, Parts and assemblies analysis using CAD system
• Use of the following tools may be required: Electronic Assembly: color code, component, schematics. May require various PCB and Systems operations. Testing: oscilloscope, cable and harness testing, trouble shooting, component testing, logic analyzer. Inspection: bare board, systems, components, cable and harness, microscope, measuring tools. Mechanical & Electrical Tools: taps and dies, alignment tools, measuring tools. Office skills: telephones, data entry, office software to include, word processing, spreadsheet and presentation package.
• Ability to analyze and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions and procedure manuals.
• Impacts operations of immediate work group. Executes and may provide input to functional processes or technologies. Assists in achieving section/sub-function objectives for a functional area. Carries out functional initiatives.
• Limited decision-making opportunities or responsibilities; makes guided or scenario-based decisions requiring management approval. Provides input for team decisions. Decisions affect team.
• Closely supervised, normally receives detailed instructions on all work. Identifies own development needs and works toward them. Assimilates Flex values.

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