Engineering Manager

Position Summary

Reports To: VP of Manufacturing Operations

Location:
Newark

The Engineering Manager leads manufacturing engineering activities to ensure hardware products are effectively designed, transitioned, and scaled into production. They oversee PCB assembly processes, drives design for manufacturability and testability, manages a team of manufacturing engineers, and coordinates cross-functional collaboration across engineering, product, and manufacturing partners. The position also supports ECO implementation, manufacturing documentation, cost optimization, continuous improvement, and root cause analysis to ensure high-quality, on-time product delivery.

• Oversee the planning, directing and coordinating the manufacturing all aspects of Manufacturing Engineering activities with regard to Product build/Design for Manufacturability.
• Oversee the maximization and efficiency of transitioning hardware products from design into manufacturing.
• Manage the organization and direct workflow between the manufacturing engineering team and hardware development engineering groups to assure products meet industry standards to design for manufacturability and design for test.
• Oversee the development of the PCB assembly process to assure products are built to high standards of quality while meeting cost objectives.
• Manage the manufacturing engineers to ensure products are built to specification and assists in resolving technical issues that affect revenue plans relating to product shipments.
• Supports the Configuration Management System and ECO implementation.
• Manage and coordinate with multiple design groups in the New Product Development Process as it related to Manufacturing.
• Oversee the work with Product Management and other Engineering Teams to assist in the creation release and implementation of ECNs as well as assure revision consistency between the PLM, ERP and manufacturers systems.
• Oversee and monitor the generation of MPI documents for production.
• Provide support the creation of manufacturing quote.
• Provide support to management in terms to continuous improvement.
• Participate in root cause analysis for any defect products.

• B.S. in Industrial Engineering, Mechanical or Electrical Engineering
• More than 5 years in managerial position in EMS industry.
• 6-10 years of PCBA Manufacturing and Design related engineering experience, performing both hands on and management roles in the field of hardware products such as servers, printed circuit assemblies, and mechanical chassis design, in circuit testing and compliance testing.
• Strong technical and analytical skills
• Excellent knowledge of industry best practice for mechanical design for manufacturability and testability. Ability to work with manufacturing from both an advisory and development role.
• Full understanding of product costing as it relates to component and manufacturing process selection. Knowledge of lean manufacturing techniques as well as design for six sigma.
• Operational knowledge of SMT processes and procedures, including PCB layout and fabrication, DFT, and DFM.