PCBA Manufacturing Engineer

PCBA Manufacturing Engineer

As a PCBA Manufacturing Engineer, you will work across design engineering, supply-chain, quality, and our manufacturing partners to drive PCBA manufacturing with on time delivery.

Role

• Define manufacturing readiness requirements and lead key milestone reviews to ensure all stakeholder deliverables are complete.
• Work with the Design Engineering team to identify and escalate manufacturing challenges early in product development by enforcing DFM, DFA and DFS principles.
• Drive closure of all operational issues during pre-production builds.
• Investigate failures in production, test, and integration. Identify and mitigate underlying root causes to prevent reoccurrence and foster continuous improvement.
• Deliver manufacturing processes capabilities including equipment capability, quality controls, materials characterization, and workmanship standards.
• Actively monitor the success of products and processes through the production ramp.
• Provide direction to contract manufacturing, suppliers, and engineers to manage quarantine and rework activities.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering (or equivalent)
• 5+ years of experience in PCB/PCBA fabrication facility
• 3+ years supplier quality, manufacturing, or design experience
• Experience in board assembly process and equipment (for example: Stencil print, SPI, pick & place, reflow, AOI, ICT, x-ray inspection).
• Experience leading DFX reviews to deliver design to manufacturability, testability, quality, and reliability standards
• Must be onsite 5 days a week
• Certified or significantly familiar with IPC-610

Bonus

• Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering (or equivalent)
• 7+ years of experience in PCBA/PCB supply chain, manufacturing or engineering.
• 5+ years’ experience with industry standard PLM and DFX systems, Mentor/Valor preferred.
• Experience performing Design and Process Failure Modes and Effects Analyses.
• Experience with IPC standards for PCB, PCBA, and RFPC fabrication, assembly, and test.
• Experience in Polymeric application, including conformal coating, staking and underfill.