Manufacturing Engineer CNC Job Sterling area,Virginia USA,Manufacturing / Production

Position: Manufacturing Engineer - (CNC)

Manufacturing Engineer

Your role as a Manufacturing Engineer will be to support and drive improvement to our critical manufacturing functions. We have two sets of customers—our builders, who order parts through us, and our manufacturing partners, who manufacture and assemble these parts—and you'll be consistently working at the interface between the two. At Fictiv, we believe in creating the world's premier platform for hardware manufacturing, and you'll be playing a critical role in making that happen.

In your role as the Manufacturing Engineer, you will be reviewing and analyzing the manufacturability and costs associated with CNC machining submitted by our builders. In this role, you'll also be using your Mechanical Engineering background and knowledge of manufacturing processes in order to determine what design changes may need to be made to our builders' design specifications in order to meet their needs.

By developing highly competitive proposals and quotations that meet the requirements called out by our customers, you will be assisting in bringing products to market faster in a wide range of industries (and helping to accelerate Fictiv's growth)

You will report to the Costing and DFM lead.

What You'll Be Doing

Package review
- Study the package provided by Sales to determine scope of work, manufacturing feasibility & Lead time details

Define best suited manufacturing process, machine selection, cycle time calculations & setup costs

Generate should cost using in house calculators & Fictiv's software recommendations

Manufacturing Partners quote scrutiny. To check whether the provided quote is correct in terms of optimized raw material, machining & secondary processes costs

Negotiate with Manufacturing partners on quotes provided and get the best costs out to ensure a win win situation

Understand secondary process eg Anodising, Zinc plating, Chemical conversion coatings with respect to their type, class, service class, methods etc

Preparing RFQ package to Manufacturing Partners referring to capability & capacity plans

Calculator Generations
- Use own machining expertise & understanding of process cost drivers to develop cost calculators

DFx Feedback
- Study the 3D Model, 2D prints to determine the manufacturability of the part & highlight key points that involve a design change recommendation

Automation Feedback
- Provide feedback to Quoting Software team to improve accuracy of automated quoting of our manufacturing services

Packaging costs
- Develop packaging concept & provide the same to Logistics team for generating Shipping costs

Follow up with Sales for Quoted RFQ's feedback on weekly basis & also provide feedback to Manufacturing partners about quoted RFQ's status

Work with CFT in evaluating value deals for project management validation, project de risking, quality documentation

Handle Assembly product structure

Help clear technical queries during MP Quoting

Maintain reports for Opportunities quoted won/lost, conversion ratio etc

Participate in Manufacturing Partners Q with CFT to address cost issues, conversion ratios etc