Lead Engineer, Manufacturing Process

Req ID: 141180 
Region: Americas 
Country: USA 
State/Province: Oregon 
City: Portland 

Summary

The Lead Engineer, Manufacturing Process is responsible for designing, developing, deploying and optimizing processes for manufacturing to achieve quality, cost and delivery goals for Celestica and its customers' products.

Detailed Description

The ideal candidate will perform tasks such as, but not limited to, the following:

• Serves as the Manufacturing Engineering interface for new product launches/introductions, typically collaborating with design engineering or customers.
• Creates, implements and maintains methods, sequences and processes in the manufacture or parts, components, and assemblies.
• Designs manufacturing line layouts guided by Lean principles.
• Identifies process problems that lead to throughput or quality issues, evaluates root cause, and implements solutions to stabilize and/or improve processes.
• Creates product assembly work instructions and checklists.
• Participates in the selection of new manufacturing equipment.
• Gathers, understands and converts customer specifications and data into usable manufacturing information.
• Creates and evaluates metrics to drive the quality improvement process.
• Develops test processes, test fixtures and specialized tools to automate testing of products.
• Drives continuous improvement activities for existing manufacturing lines.
• Translates customer requirements into factory activities; creates and documents associated factory support activities needed for product manufacturing and testing.
• Defines process problems that lead to throughput or quality issues, evaluates cause of problem, implements solutions to stabilize processes, evaluates results

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

Required Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:

• Experience with manufacturing of complex industrial equipment
• Knowledge of industry and quality standards (eg. IPC-620, ISO-9001).
• Experience utilizing Lean methodologies and tools.
• Excellent customer relations and problem resolution skills.
• Ability to design tests, evaluate results and recommend solutions to improve processes used in the assembly of electromechanical assemblies.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and coordinate changing deadlines.
• Ability to effectively communicate with a variety of internal and external customers.
• Works autonomously under minimum supervision; seeks approval from others on matters outside of job/role scope.
• Ability to utilize AutoDesk Inventor or Solidworks to create models and parts for manufacturing jigs and fixtures desired.
• Knowledge of manufacturing processes and equipment used in the assembly and troubleshooting of electromechanical assemblies.
• Knowledge of vacuum systems and leak checking methods are preferred.
• Knowledge of statistical process control methods and techniques desired.

Physical Demands

• Duties of this position are performed in a normal office environment and in a cleanroom manufacturing environment with frequent exposure to noise, chemicals, operating machinery, etc.
• Duties may require extended periods of sitting and sustained visual concentration on a computer monitor or on numbers and other detailed data. 
• Repetitive manual movements (e.g., data entry, using a computer mouse, etc.) are frequently required.
• Occasional travel may be required.

Typical Experience

• 3 to 5 years of related experience in similar job roles

Typical Education

• Bachelor’s degree in a related Engineering field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Notes

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities of the position. Employees are held accountable for all duties of the job. Job duties and the % of time identified for any function are subject to change at any time.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
Celestica’s policy on equal employment opportunity prohibits discrimination based on race, color, creed, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran or disability status, or other characteristics protected by law. 
This policy applies to hiring, promotion, discharge, pay, fringe benefits, job training, classification, referral and other aspects of employment and also states that retaliation against a person who files a charge of discrimination, participates in a discrimination proceeding, or otherwise opposes an unlawful employment practice will not be tolerated. All information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

COMPANY OVERVIEW:
Celestica (NYSE, TSX: CLS) enables the world’s best brands. Through our recognized customer-centric approach, we partner with leading companies in Aerospace and Defense, Communications, Enterprise, HealthTech, Industrial, Capital Equipment and Energy to deliver solutions for their most complex challenges. As a leader in design, manufacturing, hardware platform and supply chain solutions, Celestica brings global expertise and insight at every stage of product development – from drawing board to full-scale production and after-market services for products from advanced medical devices, to highly engineered aviation systems, to next-generation hardware platform solutions for the Cloud. Headquartered in Toronto, with talented teams spanning 40+ locations in 13 countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia, we imagine, develop and deliver a better future with our customers.

Celestica would like to thank all applicants, however, only qualified applicants will be contacted.
Celestica does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies or fee based recruitment services.