Cables Manufacturing Engineer (Level 4)

This is a fully on-site position; hybrid or remote work is not available. Relocation assistance is not offered.

Our Cables Manufacturing Engineers:

• Design manufacturing processes, procedures and production layouts for assemblies, equipment installation, processing, machining and material handling.

• Design arrangement of machines within plant facilities to ensure most efficient and productive layout.

• Design sequence of operations and specifies procedures for the fabrication of tools and equipment and other functions that affect product performance.

• Adapt machine or equipment design to factory and production conditions.

• May incorporate inspection and test requirements into the production plan. Inspects performance of machinery, equipment, and tools to verify their efficiency, and investigates and initiates corrective action of problems and deficiencies to ensure product quality.

• Develop manufacturing processes that are applicable to statistical process control, and may develop those techniques.

• Provide guidance to engineering regarding design concepts and specification requirements to best utilize equipment and manufacturing techniques.

• Ensure processes and procedures are in compliance with regulations.

In this job, you will:

• Create cable MES cable build plans from a released cable drawing with schematic and requirements for the fabrication of the cable.

• Create in-process change records on cable builds

• Troubleshoot and work Cause/ Corrective Actions

• Create design change cable build plans

• Up-rev MES plans when new cable drawing releases

• Work process improvements

Required Qualifications for Level 4:

• Bachelor’s degree with 8 years of related experience – OR – Master’s degree with 6 years of experience.

• Familiarity with Root Cause and Corrective Action

• Must have excellent communication skills and ability to work within a team environment

• Experienced with IPC/WHMA-A-620; IPC/WHMA-A-610 and IPC J-STD-001

• Ability to work independently and mentor early-career engineers

• Agility with learning and implementing software tools and programs

Preferred Qualifications:

• The ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret security clearance, which generally requires US Citizenship as a prerequisite

• BS in Engineering from an ABET accredited university

• Experience with cables

• Experience with Capital Software

• Familiar with digital formboard for cable assembly

• Familiarity with Teamcenter or Solumina

• Adept at managing competing priorities

• Attention to detail

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We work a 9/80 schedule (9 hours per day Mon-Thurs, 8 hours every other Friday with the alternate Friday off)