Sr Product Engineer

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Job Summary

To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we’re looking to add a Product Engineer located in Guadalajara, North Campus.

This role involves responsibility for receiving, analyzing, cleaning, and customizing all technical information/documentation from the customer related to his product, derived from a New Product Introduction (NPI) or a design change to establish all necessary processes to manufacture it by maintaining the mass production product.

What a typical day looks like:

• Handle product transfer and new product set up.
• Support production by assessing product engineering issues of diverse scopes that arise on production line.
• Suggest improvements to process to obtain improved quality and production yield.
• Solve product related problems and perform failure analysis related to product issues.
• Interact with customer and various departments on product related issues – engineering changes, new model development.
• Work with design team to resolve design related issues.
• Suggest modification to work instructions, material or product changes to ensure superior quality of products.
• Customer´s Bill of Material (BOM) analysis and structure definition for production.
• Functional Product Documentation review.
• Safety Requirements and regulations compliance identification.
• Engineering Drawings Interpretation of individual parts and assemblies.
• Request customers for drawing corrections, additions, clarification, measurements methods.
• Lead Engineering Changes Implementation.
• Conduct Design for Manufacturing (DFM), tolerance analysis, Design of Experiment (DOE), form-fit-function to determine failure root/cause analysis and reporting to customer.
• Provide support to supply chain to integrate parts derived from the vertical integration or localization effort.
• Provide product training to the manufacturing/process engineers for better understanding of the product.
• Request, handle and administrate golden samples, engineering samples of final product and/or piece parts
• Establish, operate and maintain a standard method for technical information exchange with the customer to control and preserve information of NPI transferred projects
• Analyze and determine course of action of Product Change Notification (PCN) and Manufacturing Change Order (MCO).
• Ability to take additional responsibilities of the Manufacturing Engineer depending on the size and complexity of the customer product.
• AML/MPN management (validate packaging/spec to use in SMT process).
• Participate in cost reduction activities in areas such as material, inventory, and waste reduction.
• Configure new top levels into traceability system
• Run NPI/FAI validations
• Management of work meetings.
• BOM´s management.
• Engineering change management and implementation.

The experience we’re looking to add to our team:

• BA/BS or equivalent work experience.

• NPI experience

• Previous people management experience.

• Advanced English

• Experience in similar position in electronic manufacturing environment.

• Product Engineering experience within electronic components.

• Extensive knowledge in SMT/PTH/PRESSFIT.

• Experience in product lifecycle systems (Agile)

• Experience in the use of Floor shop systems.

• Experience in ECO's implementation.

• Knowledge in creation and reading of Bill of Materials (BOMs).

• Knowledge in assembly processes (End to End).

• Experience in BAAN system (SAP).

What you’ll receive for the great work you provide:

• Competitive Salary.
• Life & Medical insurance.
• Christmas Bonus.
• Food Coupons.
• Saving Fund.

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Job Category

Production Engineering

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