Mechanical Tooling and Process Engineer in Corvallis

Job Title: Mechanical Tooling and Process Engineer

Employee Type: MSP

Expected Weekly

Hours:

40

This position is responsible for supporting the client’s business unit(s) with leveraging/improving existing and designing new tooling and process development to enable low volume (products and engineering/proto builds) and high volume (mass production) manufacturing lines across the client’s portfolio of hardware products.

• Collaborate with a wide range of internal and external partners, including R&D teams, ODM/OEM teams, and global tooling and process development teams
• Develop and qualify processes and capabilities to enable new product (NPI) and technology development on prototype assembly line(s) that are mass production manufacturing representative
• Leverage existing tools and processes to enable low volume product manufacturing
• Design, specify and/or procure new production tools
• Install, evaluate, characterize, and qualify new production tools
• Execute test plans, collect and analyze data, and calculate process capabilities related to new product (NPI) specifications
• Identify gaps in test tooling capability, process capability, and/or incoming material capability as necessary to ensure organizational awareness of issues
• Sustain prototype and mass production manufacturing lines
• Address day-to-day line-down issues
• Monitor production performance through statistical process control methods and close gaps where possible
• Maintain target yields
• Correlate process capabilities back to product needs to determine appropriate specifications in order to ensure customer satisfaction
• Drive for continuous improvements
• Perform other duties as needed

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Mechanics, Industrial Engineering, or related field
• Eligible to work in the US without RLA sponsorship for employment visa status

3-5+ years of experience in a mechanical tooling/process development role

• Designed tooling and process development in low volume (engineering builds) and high volume (mass production build) manufacturing environments
• Specification and design of test tools including fabrication, gauge capability assessments, qualification, and implementation
• Worked with product R&D and manufacturing teams on design for test (DFT) and design for manufacturability (DFM) improvements
• Use of various CAD packages for tooling design
• Experience using Quality Systems, Statistical Process Control, Design of Experiments, and basic statistical data analysis on tooling design and process development and improvements
• Experience working in R&D/proto/manufacturing environments considering product validation and characterization testing requirements

• Ability to read, write, and speak English proficiently
• High proficiency using productivity software such as M365 (Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Teams and SharePoint)
• Ability to use agile/scrum project/program management principles and methodologies to consistently meet task deadlines, triage changing priorities, and track issues to resolution
• Ability to collaborate across diverse teams with a customer service mindset

• The position typically operates in a standard office environment and/or from employee’s home
• Be able to lift and/or move up to 25 pounds