Advanced Manufacturing Engineer

** Role Number:*
* ** Summary*
* Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, we believe new ideas have a way of becoming phenomenal products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish.  The people here at Apple don't just create products - they create the kind of wonder that's revolutionized entire industries. It's the diversity of those people and their ideas that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do, from amazing technology to industry-leading environmental efforts.

Join Apple, and help us leave the world better than we found it.

** Description*
* Responsible for innovating precision assembly and measurement processes, and driving continuous improvement in equipment yield, efficiency, and speed. Key stakeholder in design-for-manufacturing, process development, and assembly tolerance analysis. This work directly impacts the design, cost and quality of new, technically complex opto-electronics modules.

** Minimum Qualifications*
* + 1+ years of experience in precision assembly, inspection and automation equipment design and qualification

+ Ability to travel approximately 30-35%

+ BSME or equivalent

** Preferred Qualifications*
* + 3 + years in an engineering role with experience in precision assembly, inspection and automation equipment

+ Required to understand and build tolerance analysis for parts and assemblies

+ Knowledgeable in crafting machine qualification requirements, design of experiments and failure analysis

+ Understands machine qualification including calibration, correlation, capability, repeatability and reproducibility

+ Able to communicate effectively in a worldwide environment

+ New product introduction and Manufacturing Operations experience desired

+ Proven track record of cost reduction, project management and engineering design required

+ Working knowledge of GD&T principles favorable

+ NX, Solid Works CAD or ProE experiences a plus

+ Knowledge of optics principles as they relate to CCD cameras, 2D and 1D lasers, and their use for positioning and critical alignment machines

+ Working knowledge of robotics (6-axis and/or SCARA), pneumatics, servo motors, motion controllers, PLC and and PC-based control systems

+ JMP, Minitab & Six Sigma experience preferred