Sr. Manufacturing Engineer

The Team

The Operations organization at Cognex is responsible for achieving the cost, quality, and delivery requirements of our customers globally. It partners with multiple business units for the design and development of products and throughout active product life cycles. This position is part of the Sustaining Engineering team, which is a group within the Operations Engineering team.

This Senior Manufacturing Engineer position is responsible for supporting existing product designs and supply chain. This includes production at suppliers, contract manufacturers, distribution centers and projects to improve manufacturability, optimize costs, and improve quality.

• Ensure that materials selection and product designs achieve optimal balance of cost, quality, and manufacturability
• Investigate quality issues through application of sound problem solving skills in a team environment
• Collect production data, analyze, report, take corrective action, and drive continuous improvement
• Understanding supplier capabilities to aid design discussions and deliver cost reduction while maintaining quality
• Support assembly, test, and inspection methods for products
• Perform qualifications to support end of life component replacements
• Actively search for cost savings in design, assembly process or components in all products
• Ability to travel locally (mostly Asia) to CMs, vendors, or customers. Travel is approximately 20%.

• Design new and improve on existing assembly fixtures and processes
• Hands on experience in mechanical and/or PCB manufacturing process engineering, optical knowledge is a plus
• Knowledge of design for manufacture, assembly techniques, die castings, injection molding, cable assemblies, and surface treatments. Experience with should-cost modeling is a plus.
• Proficient in CAD (Solid Works is a plus)
• Use of AI, or other processes to aid in your own day to day work, and the willingness to teach others
• High energy and results driven using facts and data
• Excellent communicator that can work directly with suppliers, contract manufacturers, and designers located around the world, this will likely include off hours meetings
• Demonstrated success in setting challenging goals and achieving them when working on multiple projects
• Experience with document control

• Bachelor’s Degree in manufacturing, mechanical, or equivalent engineering
• 2-5 years of experience with relevant, high-tech, electronics and electro-mechanical products