Manufacturing Design

Description

Cupertino, California, United States Operations and Supply Chain

How do you build a great idea? With more great ideas—the kind of thinking that transforms the work of our industrial designers into the devices that enrich the lives of our customers. Join this team to develop manufacturing engineering solutions that deliver our products with outstanding precision at an unprecedented scale. You’ll help design and customize equipment, build manufacturing processes, refine tooling, identify suppliers, and work with key operations partners to optimize capacity and cost—without losing sight of our incredibly high standards for quality!

Apple GSMs own the commercial relationship with our enclosure manufacturing partners and are responsible for cost negotiations, continuity of supply, risk management, driving operational and cost efficiencies through process or design change, as well overall project execution. GSMs sit at the intersection of Apple's business activities and engineering communities, and effectively balance the needs of both groups to ensure successful product launches.

Enclosure components (such as the housing) define the look, feel and expression of Apple’s globally recognized industrial and product design. GSMs work in concert with operations, manufacturing quality, and manufacturing design engineers as well as Apple’s Product Design and Industrial Design teams. Together, these teams execute and scale both new and existing manufacturing processes, materials, technologies, finishes and form factors.

The Apple Manufacturing Design Engineer (MDE) is accountable for leading the development and implementation of high precision mechanical manufacturing processes across Apple’s worldwide supply base. In this highly visible hands‑on role, you will have direct frequent communication and collaboration with Apple Industrial Design, Product Design, and Manufacturing Design partners, as well as our worldwide suppliers. The MDE role is empowered and expected to bring creativity to Apple’s manufacturing approach, enabling us to deliver our best work to as many customers as possible.

You will be a part of collaborative environment contributing to the creation, evaluation, and implementation of end‑to‑end manufacturing solutions for Apple's hardware enclosures. You will collaborate closely with cross‑functional stakeholders in Quality Engineering, Global Supply Management, Product Design, and Industrial Design in order to ensure our manufacturing solutions meet our product quality, cost, yield, capacity, schedule, and environmental goals.

The Manufacturing Design Program Manager (MDPM) is responsible for managing and guiding development activities of highly skilled process development, operations, and quality teams within Apple’s Manufacturing Design group. The MDPM will lead the team to develop processes for building extraordinary products from existing and new ideas based on business needs. The MDPM should possess a blend of business and technical knowledge, allowing for big‑picture vision and the ability to dive deep into specific challenges.

MDPM team members operate autonomously, demonstrate strong leadership capabilities, and juggle competing priorities with ease.

Manufacturing Quality Engineers work in tandem with Apple's world‑class designers to develop measurement technologies, control strategies, information systems, and manufacturing methods that achieve visionary specifications at massive production scale. We lead a network of supplier factories worldwide, with responsibility for our partners' delivery to aggressive schedules. Our focus is on elegant execution of extraordinary designs, resulting in products that thrill our customers.

We are the primary operations interface to the core product development team and Module Engineering team within Apple. As the owner of the program, through direct involvement and/or influence, you will ensure the successful launch of the product towards meeting it’s stated Cost, Quality, Schedule,…