Operations Manufacturing Design PhD Internships

Operations Manufacturing Design PhD Internships

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. The people here at Apple don't just build products — they build 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. In this internship, you will have the opportunity to make a significant impact on Apple products and leave a footprint for years to come. Our Operations team ensures that Apple's groundbreaking designs become industry-leading products, delivered on time and on spec. It is positioned at the junction of Apple's product teams, the industries that supply core component technologies, and our manufacturing partners who help ensure that products such as iPad, iPhone and Mac can be restocked just as fast as they fly off the shelves!

Areas of expertise within Manufacturing Design include:

• Manufacturing Design Engineer (MDE):
  Lead selection, implementation and optimization of manufacturing processes for mechanical enclosure subassemblies for our legendary products. Utilize mechanical engineering expertise and work cross functionally with Product Design Engineering and Industrial Design. Evaluate product features for manufacturability, and recommend the most capable processes and equipment. Innovate new manufacturing processes to enable future product design and conducting design of experiments to validate process capability.
  
  Partner with global supplier managers to identify and qualify capable suppliers, assess their secondary processes for capacity, quality and cost. Partner with suppliers to define and refine mechanical tooling, fixtures and establish capability and readiness. Implement post production quality and cost improvement activity related to fixtures and processes.
• Manufacturing Quality Engineer (MQE):
  Utilize engineering, factory management and supply chain skills in developing and implementing high efficiency inspection equipment, groundbreaking quality systems and ultimately the best products available. Lead the creation of state of the art inspection and measurement equipment for Apple products. Lead the development of specific product quality plans (PQP) appropriate to program and commodity. Provide technical direction and mentorship to other quality engineers supporting the implementation of the PQP.
  
  Identify and direct studies to implement improvements in measuring method where appropriate. Lead quality engineering functions for multiple programs in the product category. Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure accurate definition of quality expectations and appropriate assurance techniques are used for the product. Partner with supplier quality management through assisting in the supplier selection process for new products and sourcing activities.
  
  You will also drive supplier production control and quality programs, identify shortfalls to expectations, and directly secure agreement to correct. Through measurement of production line statistics, company inspections, and audits, you will supervise each supplier's performance.
• Subject Matter Expert (SME):
  Act as a technical expert within the Manufacturing Design team. In this very hands-on role, SMEs display deep knowledge in their field while collaborating with their Industrial Design, Product Design, and Manufacturing Design partners to develop manufacturing processes to scale with our suppliers. Leading innovative process development trials, SMEs deliver to challenging cosmetic and functional requirements. Tooling SMEs lead the development of new metal forming and plastic injection tooling projects to meet a wide range of product performance and cosmetic requirements.
  
  Work with Apple suppliers to lead tool design and build, tool and process development and tool qualifications at the supplier. Surface Finishing SMEs research new methods for…