Title: manufacturing/quality engineer
location: juarez mexico (fjz)
*responsibilities*:
- juniper's technical leader at the site for end-to-end manufacturing for sustaining, npi and repair responsible for managing juniper cem and odm partners.
- partner's escalation/contact point for all technical issues.
provide direction and advice next course of action.
- juniper team's escalation point for any technical related issues with the factory.
drive closure for team.
- approve all deviation request from factory to juniper and approve all deviation implementation from juniper into factory.
- lead and co-ordinate line stop and ship stop at the factory by pulling in the right juniper team to support while directing the partner's actions at the factory.
- quarterly kpi planning and goal setting with partners to drive continuous improvement.
- quarter budget planning for capital expense and operating expense.
- npi (new product introduction) readiness assessment to support new awards and drive action plan.
- partner's technology roadmap planning and capability gap assessment based on juniper product/technology roadmap.
- drive dfm (design for manufacturing)/dfa (design for assembly) closure with the juniper npi/product team.
- scorecard coordination with respective cross functional team and finalizing the score for the site.
- define and check/buyoff all critical reports from partners to juniper.
- drive process improvements required by juniper related to manufacturing process and test, packaging, labelling, data collection.
- initiate eco (engineering change notice) and deviations for product changes impacting the site products involving shippable images, pack-out and labelling.
- understand capacity models for smt and backend testing and pro-actively work with partners to prepare according to demand plan.
qualification and experience:
- bachelor's degree in electrical, computers, mechanical, chemical or equivalent.
- minimum 4 to 6 years working experience in a manufacturing environment.
- experience in smt processes and pcba manufacturing is a must.
- ability to lead and manage a team is a must.
- quality experienced: tl9000, ipc, esd, qms, internal audits.
- work independently and resourcefully on-site at the factory.
- good english skills 80% speaking and written.
- strong quality mind set.