Senior SSL Industrialization Engineer

Senior SSL Industrialization Engineer

Hillsboro, New Hampshire, United States

Sense the power of light

ams OSRAM is a global leader in innovative light and sensor solutions. "Sense the power of light" - our success is based on our deep understanding of the potential of light. By adding intelligence to light, we enable our customers to drive transformative applications. Our around 20,000 employees worldwide focus on innovation alongside the societal megatrends of digitalization, smart living, energy efficiency, and sustainability.

Whatever your role is, you are a part of a talented team that enjoys exploring and designing new technologies.

Your new responsibilities

Position Summary

The Senior SSL Industrialization Engineer leads the industrialization of automotive Solid State Lighting (SSL) products and SMT-based manufacturing processes, ensuring robust launch readiness, process capability, and scalable production performance. This role partners closely with product & design engineering, operations, quality, supply chain, and marketing to transfer new products into stable, cost-effective manufacturing while meeting automotive customer, reliability, and quality requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• PIT (Product Introduction Team) Leader for end-to-end industrialization of automotive SSL products, product revisions, and process changes from design transfer through launch and production ramp-up. Other project opportunities could include plant footprint, obsolescence, or traditional lighting technologies.
• Lead cross-functional teams across manufacturing, product engineering, quality, supply chain, marketing, packaging, accounting, and program management to align product launch plans, cost targets, timing, and operational readiness.
• Develop and maintain detailed project timelines and schedules to support customer RFQs, product launches, validation activities, equipment readiness, and cross-functional deliverables.
• Lead projects through Q-gate methodology, ensuring deliverables, risks, and readiness criteria are completed and reviewed at each phase of development and launch.
• Lead and coordinate make-or-buy analyses and quotation activities to support sourcing decisions, manufacturing strategy, and competitive customer proposals.
• Develop customer RFQ quotations by coordinating inputs across manufacturing, engineering, sourcing, packaging, finance, and commercial teams to ensure accurate costing, feasibility, timing, and launch assumptions.
• Identify new production technologies and collaborate with global industrialization teams to standardize equipment, processes, and best practices across regions and product lines.
• Coordinate SMT-related manufacturing readiness activities, including development and validation of processes for stencil printing, component placement, reflow, inspection, and test.
• Partner with product & design engineering to drive Design for Manufacturing (DFM), design for assembly, design for test, reliability, and cost optimization for LED, electronics, and lamp-level assemblies.
• Develop and maintain key launch deliverables such as process flow diagrams, PFMEA, control plans, work instructions, setup documentation, and capacity plans.
• Coordinate prototype, pilot, and pre-production builds to validate process capability, material flow, tooling, fixtures, and operator readiness.
• Collaborate with quality teams to support APQP, PPAP, process validation, and launch documentation aligned to automotive customer requirements.
• Support equipment specification, line balancing, automation opportunities, and capital planning for new or modified manufacturing lines.
• Work closely with suppliers and internal stakeholders to ensure component, material, and equipment readiness for successful product launch.
• Standardize best practices across SSL and SMT operations and mentor junior engineers, technicians, and cross-functional teams.

Who we are looking for

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 10+ years of experience in manufacturing engineering, industrialization, new product introduction, or process engineering in an automotive, electronics, or high-volume production environment.
• Demonstrated experience launching products into production with a strong focus on SMT, electronics assembly, or automotive lighting systems.
• Strong knowledge of SMT/PCBA processes, process development, validation, line balancing, capacity analysis, PFMEA, control plans, and production documentation.
• Experience with automotive launch and quality requirements such as APQP, PPAP, MSA, SPC, and structured problem-solving.
• Strong project management, communication, and cross-functional stakeholder management skills, including experience working within Q-gate or stage-gate development methodologies.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in an engineering discipline or related field.
• Hands-on familiarity with SMT equipment such as stencil…