Senior Hardware Manufacturing Process Engineer

Who you are

We are looking for a Senior Hardware Manufacturing Process Engineer who has great expertise in enabling design and achieving a high level of manufacturing performance and quality and maintaining this level of performance throughout a product’s life.  This is someone who has significant experience on working with the R & D team to enable & optimize design  and defining manufacturing processes on-site at electronic manufacturing facilities. The ideal candidate is someone who enjoys critical thinking and problem solving, can successfully partner with a wide variety of stakeholders and is willing to dive deep.

This role will be based in Shenzhen. A significant amount of this person’s time will be spent on-site at partner contract manufacturing facilities. 

In this role you will lead your in in the following areas:

• Overall production process development, validation, optimization and documentation at both final assembly and component manufacturing vendors.
• In depth trial and process development in areas of key importance to a product performance; some examples being ultrasonic welding and laser etching.
• Providing design for manufacturing input to R&D/engineering teams during concept and development.
• Technical management of key supplier processes, particularly injection molding through team tooling engineer expertise. 
• Development and proposal of new processes and process improvements to reduce cost and improve quality.
• Performing failure analysis as it relates to manufacturing process impact on factory quality and field reliability issues. 
• Technical guidance/supervision to junior engineers

Minimum requirements

• 15+ years experience in manufacturing engineering, possessing knowledge of design for manufacturing, assembly process engineering and components manufacturing (e.g., tooling, molding and components secondary processes)
• Strong track record of implementing manufacturing improvements through DFM and DFx principles.
• Ability to analyze and understand part tolerance and tolerance stackup and their impact on assembly and component production.
• Experience leading and implementing manufacturing jigs/fixtures and process flows.
• Knowledge of GD&T principles and use.
• Possessing the interpersonal skills and experience needed to work with CM teams and management in a collaborative way to meet development schedules and mass-production deliveries.
• Working knowledge on quality management tools (e.g., six sigma, lean production, etc.)  and ability to interpret quality reports.
• Fluency in Chinese and English.

Preferred qualifications

• Mechanical design experience is strong plus
• Experience working in consumer electronics.
• Experience with POS hardware development and manufacturing including knowledge of tamper-proofing systems, and components for POS devices. 
• Familiarity with payments hardware related technologies e.g. ICC, MSR, tampering zebra strips etc.