Industrial Engineering Specialist

Summary

Incumbents apply in-depth knowledge in a specific area of specialization. Work is performed within established professional standards and practices. Works on problems of moderate scope where analysis of situations or data requires a review of identifiable factors and a considerable degree of judgement. Erroneous decisions or failure to achieve results may have a negative impact on the divisions/departments operations, schedules, and/or performance goals.

Works under minimum Supervision. Seeks approval from others on matters outside of job/role scope. Receives instruction on specific assignment objectives and possible solutions. Unusual problems are solved jointly with manager. Work is reviewed for application of sound technical judgment. May lead a work group or project team consisting of technical and support staff. Builds internal and external relationships, with emphasis on those that facilitate the achievement of job/role accountabilities, such as relationships with key suppliers, customers and internal service.

Perform tasks such as, but not limited to, the following:

• Provides technical expertise on assigned materials for production or customer-identified material problems.

• Performs assessments/risk analysis and quality audits on potential suppliers.

• Generates product specifications and provides to supplier.

• Performs material qualification on prototype / sample material.

• Serves as the program/project interface to coordinate new product launches / introductions.

• Translates customer requirements into factory activities, provides factory activity time estimates for pricing model, documents associated factory support activities, and develops preliminary program timeline for customer quote.

• Defines process problems that lead to throughput or quality issues, evaluates cause of problem, implements solutions to stabilize processes, evaluates results.

• Participates in the selection of new manufacturing equipment.

• Evaluates software and hardware upgrades and new equipment.

• Sets equipment specifications and develops and runs qualification tests.

• Gathers, understands and converts customer data into usable manufacturing information.

• Verifies that specifications conform to customer, industry and company standards.

• Gathers, analyzes, sorts and distributes data to understand and solve quality issues.

• Creates and evaluates metrics to drive the quality improvement process.

• Develops test processes, test fixtures and specialized tools to automate test development.

• Develops assembly/test processes, associated fixtures, and specialized tools.

• Automates where ever possible.

• Develops and implements assembly/test strategy for new products including DFx analysis and feedback.

• Engineering Foundation Competencies

• In-depth knowledge and understanding of the design process for systems and printed circuit boards, subassemblies, or other related company products.

• In-depth knowledge of manufacturing processes and equipment used for systems and printed circuit boards and subassemblies.

• In-depth knowledge of industry and quality standards and SPC methodologies.

• In-depth knowledge of materials and components used in the construction of systems and printed circuit boards and subassemblies.

• In-depth knowledge of material science, robotics, machine programming.

• In-depth knowledge of product pricing, contracts and contract negotiations.

• Excellent customer contact, negotiation and problem resolution skills.

• Good presentation, database management and computer skills.

• Strong knowledge of statistical process control methods and techniques.

• Knowledge and understanding of the design process for systems and printed circuit boards.

• Ability to design tests, evaluate results and recommend solutions to improve the processes associated with SMT and optical manufacturing.

• Ability to evaluate, diagnose and troubleshoot problems.

• Strong knowledge of IT platforms, database design and programming languages.

• Strong knowledge of some or all of the following: UNIX, NT, database management system.

• Ability to evaluate materials, gather and analyze data and determine root cause of problems.

• Ability to manage several projects simultaneously and coordinate multiple, changing deadlines.

• Ability to effectively communicate with a variety of internal and external customers.

• Duties of the position are performed in a manufacturing environment with frequent exposure to noise, dust, chemicals, operating machinery, temperature extremes, hazardous…