Manufacturing Engineering Contractor

Manufacturing Engineer Job LocationsUS-CA-Santa Barbara ID2025-18757 Job FunctionOperations/Production Overview Join a Global Leader in Analytical Instrumentation
Are you passionate about engineering innovation and looking to advance your career with a company at the forefront of analytical instrumentation? Bruker, a world leader in research and development solutions, invites you to join our team in Santa Barbara, CA as an Manufacturing Engineer.
With over 60 years of driving progress and more than 11,000 employees across 90 global locations, Bruker continues to shape industries and improve quality of life worldwide.
Bruker Nano, one of our four operating segments, empowers customers in academia, government, life sciences, and applied industries with the tools to uncover the properties of matter and visualize molecular structures. Our divisions span Nano Analytics, Nano Surfaces & Metrology, Fluorescence Microscopy, and Spatial Biology.
As a Mechanical Manufacturing Engineer at Bruker AFM, you'll play a pivotal role in sustaining engineering, championing supply chain initiatives, resolving end-of-life challenges, and ensuring peak performance of production test equipment. If you're ready to make a significant impact in electrical manufacturing, we encourage you to apply and become part of our innovative family.
Responsibilities General:

• Follow company policies and processes
• Initiate and support continuous improvement activities
• Create metrics and reports for your projects and processes
• Document and improve your processes
• Train and mentor new employees
• Guide your process users and answer questions
• Ensure compliance with internal and external standards where applicable
• Write, review, approve Engineering Change Orders (ECO)
• Support cross functional teams
• Perform other duties assigned by the supervisor
• Ability to travel within US for initial training and future NPI collaboration activities.

o 1st 6 months may require ~50% travel (All travel within CA)
o New Product Introduction (NPI) Engineering:

• Work with cross-functional NPI teams for New Product Development from Conceptual phase through Proof of Manufacturing, Volume Production, and End of Life phases.
• Lead the NPI team during "Proof of Manufacturing and Production Ramp" phase of the NPI projects and prepare the new product for production by making sure that all drawings, work instructions, routings, BOMs, fixtures, test protocols, and test specifications are ready for production.
• Practice and promote (DFx) guidelines, Design for Manufacturing, Assembly, Test, Reliability, and Service.
• Provide feedback to design engineers during design reviews using DFx principles, best practices, and lessons learned from previous projects.
• Lead process Failure Mode Effect Analysis (pFMEA) activities
• Contribute to design Failure Mode Effect Analysis (dFMEA) activities
• Complete manufacturing engineering and quality engineering deliverables during all phases of NPI process
• Create and present progress reports, metrics, and PowerPoints for your projects
• Create quality inspection plans and first article documents for new parts
• Lead or support integration of products and processes of newly acquired technologies into Bruker product lines and processes

Sustaining Engineering:

• Lead "Line Down" projects
• Support production to achieve "on time shipment" (OTS) and revenue goals.
• Design, develop, test, and qualify product and production improvements (tooling, fixtures, documentation)
• Review and approve first article parts
• Solve "off the shelf" component end of life (EOL) issues, find alternative components
• Create and Improve drawings, documentation, work instructions, BOM, and routings via Engineering Change Order process
• Lead or contribute to Material Review Board (MRB) to process non-conforming materials
• Utilize corrective and preventive action process (CAPA) to improve product and processes
• Troubleshoot and test electromechanical and electrical assemblies to support production
• Ensure and improve uptime for production test equipment and tooling
• Support cost reduction activities such as Redesign, Insourcing, Outsourcing, and Resourcing.
• Initiate and contribute to product quality improvement activities
• Lead or support factory qualification projects
• Lead or contribute to process improvement activities
• Lead or contribute to product quality improvement activities (including Supplier Quality, Receiving Inspection, In process Quality, In Box Quality, and Out of Box Quality)

Qualifications KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:
Minimum Qualifications:

• Experience with NPI process as direct contributor and project manager
• Experience with DFx, DFMEA, and PFMEA techniques.
• Experience in creating and maintaining BOM structures.
• Experience in writing ECOs (Engineering Change Orders).
• Experience in mechanical part & assembly design and making changes to existing design in 3D CAD.
• Experience in utilizing and interpreting GD&T and ANSI 14.5.
• Experience in creating and editing production work instructions and manufacturing routings.
• Experience in presenting updates to internal customers and management
• Experience in troubleshooting complex electromechanical assemblies.
• User level experience with SAP (or a similar complex ERP system) (example modules: Material Master, BOMs, Routings, Documents).
• Work independently, strong team player, detail oriented, organized, and hands-on.
• Effective time management skills to meet deadlines
• Above average fluency with Microsoft Office products
• Ability to work in Clean-Room Environment.
• US Citizenship or Permenant Residency
• International travel (may be required ~4wks per year. Actual travel duration and frequency will depend on project requirements.)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in Solidworks, SolidEdge
• Experience managing third party contractors.
• Familiar with ISO9001 requirements, continuous improvement, and Six Sigma principles.
• Experience in a similar, highly engineered, low volume, high mix, capital equipment environment that includes mechanical, electronic, and software composition.
• Experience in a process-oriented business environment.

PHYSICAL/ENVIRONMENTAL REQUIREMENTS:

* Ability to lift 25lbs

EDUCATIONAL/EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:

BS degree in Mechanical or Manufacturing Engineering with minimum of 3 years of experience in engineering. MSc degree or higher degree in Mechanical or Manufacturing Engineering with no min experience requirement.
At Bruker, base salary is part of our total compensation. The estimated base salary range for this full-time position is between $74,000 and $133,000. You will have the ability to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base salary for the role will depend on several job-related factors, including, but not limited to education, training, experience, the geographic location of the successful candidate, skills, competencies, job-related knowledge and travel requirements for this position. Full-time employees may also be eligible for a performance-related incentive in addition to a full range of benefits including 401(k) with company match, an employee stock purchase plan, medical and dental plans, life insurance, short-term and long-term disability insurance, employee assistance program and paid time off including vacation, sick time and holidays, and more.
Bruker is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.
Certain positions at Bruker require compliance with export control laws and a result, all interviewed candidates for all positions will be screened pre-interview to determine their eligibility in light of export control restrictions.

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