Senior Manufacturing Engineer – Advanced Electromechanical Systems

Position Summary

Sapphire Technologies is seeking a Senior Manufacturing Engineer to industrialize and scale advanced electromechanical products incorporating high-speed rotating machinery, active magnetic bearings, electric machines, power electronics, controls, liquid cooling, and precision mechanical assemblies.

The role will support a major product platform serving rapidly growing energy and data‑center infrastructure applications. The program is progressing from development into production and will require a significant manufacturing scale‑up.

This is a hands‑on role responsible for translating engineering designs into safe, repeatable, cost-effective production processes. The successful candidate will lead DFM and DFA, manufacturing‑process development, tooling, production‑intent builds, contract‑manufacturing transfer, and continuous improvement.

Learning
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Develop manufacturing expertise across precision rotating assemblies, electric machines, magnetic bearings, power electronics, fluid systems, production testing, and contract‑manufacturing operations.

Impact
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Directly influence product quality, cost, yield, assembly time, reliability, and Sapphire’s ability to execute a major production ramp supporting data‑center infrastructure.

Becoming
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Grow into a manufacturing leader with opportunities to own product industrialization, factory strategy, contract‑manufacturing deployment, process technology, and future production platforms.

• Establish Manufacturing Readiness:
  Understand the product architecture, assembly sequence, build history, manufacturing risks, and production strategy.
• Lead DFM and DFA reviews, focusing on tolerances, assembly methods, inspection, testing, serviceability, and cost.
• Define the manufacturing process flow, critical‑to‑quality characteristics, tooling needs, control plans, and production‑readiness plan.
• Establish a manufacturing risk register and close the most urgent gaps before production‑intent builds.

• Lead manufacturing readiness and execution for production‑intent builds at Contract Manufacturers.
• Develop work instructions, tooling, fixtures, inspection methods, process controls, and test requirements.
• Capture build data and resolve assembly, quality, supplier, and documentation issues through structured root‑cause analysis.
• Incorporate lessons learned into product designs and manufacturing processes.

• Deliver a documented and validated manufacturing process ready for commercial production and continued scale‑up.
• Establish line layout, staffing, capacity, tooling, training, quality gates, and production‑test requirements.
• Support transfer of the product to qualified contract‑manufacturing partners.
• Improve yield, throughput, labor content, rework, and cost through process optimization.
• Establish a manufacturing roadmap addressing automation, capacity expansion, and continued cost reduction.

• Lead product industrialization from prototype through production launch and scale‑up.
• Drive DFM and DFA decisions early in product development.
• Develop manufacturing strategies, process flows, routings, assembly methods, and capacity plans.
• Design and implement fixtures, tooling, gauges, process equipment, and production‑test systems.
• Define assembly, alignment, balancing, leak‑test, inspection, and functional‑test processes.
• Create controlled work instructions, process specifications, quality checkpoints, and training materials.
• Lead PFMEA, process validation, build‑readiness reviews, and manufacturing‑risk mitigation.
• Provide hands‑on support during prototype, pilot, validation, and production builds.
• Lead structured investigations into manufacturing defects, yield loss, rework, and process variation.
• Improve throughput, quality, labor efficiency, safety, and production cost.
• Support contract‑manufacturer selection, qualification, technology transfer, training, and launch.
• Partner with engineering, quality, supply chain, operations, suppliers, and program management.

• Bachelor’s degree in Manufacturing, Mechanical, Industrial Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Eight or more…