Manufacturing Engineer

Who You’ll Work With

We are seeking a Manufacturing Engineer who is passionate about building reliable and scalable manufacturing test scripts and automation tools. This on-site role, based in our Zapopan, Guadalajara, México office, reports to our Mexico Manufacturing Manager.

You will play a critical role in supporting our Mexico’s manufacturing operations and extend your expertise to our contract Manufacturers in Mexico. This position requires cross-functional collaboration with teams across time zones, including QA, NPIE, CM Partners, and other operations teams.

What You'll Do

• Manage and drive quality metrics and improvement activities (yields, bone pile, scrap rates, component fallout).

• Line stops / purges / quality issues leadership.

• NPI management

• Actively debug product failures.

• Assess manufacturing personnel technical capability.

• Ensure that production site receives the required level of product training.

• Provide hardware debug mentorship to contract manufacturing test engineers and debug technicians.

• Improve manufacturing operations test processes and actively enhance efficiency, consistency, cost avoidance, and customer satisfaction.

• Address Return Rate (RMA) and customer complaints.

• DRT participation and leadership. Actively work with the Defect Reduction Team to identify product issues and drive resolutions.

• Manage and drive test yield improvements.

• Establish technical direction through the investigation and evaluation of new test technologies.

• Interface/engage with Engineering, Platform Engineering, Manufacturing and CM partners.

• Understand implementation of Change Orders (Agile)

• Identify and drive process improvement, cycle times reduction and lean activities

• Develop process and/or best practice documentation.

• Work in conformance to established manufacturing test processes and procedures.

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• 10+ years of experience in contract manufacturing environment, preferably in a high mix, low volume PCBA environment as well as box build.

• BS or MS degree required.

• Strong leadership capability, with experience in managing, recruiting, developing and coaching employees.

• Proven record of accomplishment driving business efficiency and improvements.

• Ability to read and interpret hardware specifications, schematics, and data sheets.

• Excellent written and oral communication skills in both English and Spanish.

• Must be results-oriented and possess sound business judgement.

• Strong strategic thinking and analytical skills combined with an ability to research information.

• Ability and experience in Test Capacity management and cycle time improvements.

• Solid working knowledge of DFx (DFM, DFA, DFT)

• Demonstrated ability to establish technical direction through the investigation and evaluation of new test technologies.

• Expertise in networking products related to routing, switching and data center.

• Excellent computer skills with emphasis on excel and project reporting.

• Excellent working knowledge of complex system level debugging and root cause analysis.

• Strong knowledge of manufacturing, test, quality and reliability best practices.

• Experience in HLA / System-level testing in a manufacturing context.

• Experience working with EMS / CM partners and global fulfillment centers.

• Knowledge of data visualization techniques and dashboard tools for monitoring test data.

• Experience with automation in fixtures for integration stages.

• Experience in production process metric implementation, yield management and product quality.

• Knowledge in ECO, BOM and Deviation processes, (Agile or propel experience a plus).

• Factory readiness for New Product launches