Operations Engineering Specialist

Position: 08 - Operations Engineering Specialist 1
Req

Region:
Americas

Country: USA

State/Province:
Texas

City:
Richardson

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.

Detailed Description

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.

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

* 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…