Mgr, Design Engineering

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UCT is looking for a talented Manager, Design Engineering to join us in Carrollton, TX!

• Manages the design engineering team by establishing priorities, assigning work, scheduling projects, and ensuring required tasks are completed on time.
• Maintains a balanced department with the technical skills, flexibility, and experience needed to support both short- and long-range business requirements.
• Leads design engineering support for production process equipment, fixtures, baskets, tooling, workstations, part-handling systems, and related production support hardware.
• Oversees part fixture design with emphasis on safety, ergonomics, manufacturability, process effectiveness, repeatability, and cost control.
• Directs the development, maintenance, and evaluation of production tooling required for efficient and effective part processing.
• Provides leadership for workstation and equipment design related to wet process operations, including etch, strip, rinse, passivation, spray, and other liquid process applications.
• Supports design requirements for surface treatment and coating-related processes, including media blasting, mechanical surface texturing, TWAS, arc spray, ALD, electro/electroless deposition, and other vapor phase or surface treatment processes.
• Develops and maintains process equipment requirements, specifications, design standards, drawings, layouts, and technical documentation.
• Leads and supports equipment design projects, installations, upgrades, development efforts, and production implementation activities.
• Ensures equipment work procedures are properly developed and maintained, including preventive maintenance, corrective maintenance, RFC, IQ, OQ, and related operating documentation.
• Reviews and approves drawings, fixture designs, tooling concepts, equipment layouts, technical documentation, and design change packages as appropriate.
• Uses sound engineering methods, design review practices, and data-driven analysis to support recommendations and technical conclusions.
• Leads or supports training material development, examinations, and certifications related to process equipment maintenance, operation, and safe use.
• Coordinates with Process Engineering, Operations, Quality, Customer Service, Safety, Environmental, and other internal teams to ensure effective engineering support is provided.
• Works with customer‑facing and technical teams to ensure design solutions support customer requirements, new product introduction, Copy Exact requirements, and global manufacturing consistency.
• Leads design and product improvement efforts that reduce material cost, improve labor efficiency, increase safety, improve quality, and enhance equipment performance.
• Supports cost reduction, continuous improvement, and productivity initiatives related to fixtures, tooling, equipment, and production workstations.
• Participates on technical, safety, environmental, and cross‑functional committees as assigned.
• Recommends new equipment, facility modifications, tooling improvements, or process design changes necessary to improve safety, capacity, operating effectiveness, quality, or operating cost.
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