NPI Engineer

Role Purpose

This position is within Americas’ Regional Engineering and will be part of the development of new products and processes with an emphasis on speed of innovation into manufacturing through effective Change Management, Design for Manufacturing, Cost Modeling, and alignment to our global Product Quality Architecture. This position focuses on leading the industrialization of products developed through our IPP projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Working with project team members, develop and / or improve processes using DMAIC and sound statistical methods to ensure process performance meets the level required to meet cost, capacity, and service level requirements for new products.
• Lead the cost performance effort in projects, owning the cost model and ensuring product cost targets are met at product launch
• Author process improvement capability plans.  Complete technical reports for internal publication.
• Lead and/or actively participate in creation of requirements and agreements for product availability by using LA and GA criteria document.
• Lead and organize process and product workshops to drive DFM Analysis in NPIs documenting and implementing improvement ideas during the NPI project lifecycle.
• Working with the project team and process engineering team, ensure Product Quality Architecture requirements are met before project closure.
• Identify gaps in manufacturing capabilities and make recommendations to improve. Support those improvements.  Included in this are programs in TPM and LEAN implementation.  Identify and act on best practices globally.
• Visibly support the establishment and maintenance of a safe work environment
• Provide technical direction and mentorship for teams of engineers and technicians across multiple locations.
• May be asked to drive project teams of engineers, technicians, and peers
• REGIONAL POSITION

Experiences/Education - Required

• Knowledgeable in fiber optic cabling and connectivity
• Experience working in a high volume, manual, precision manufacturing environment
• Strong project management skills.
• Good problem solving and analytical capabilities (particularly statistical analysis).
• Excellent communication and leadership-through-influence skills.
• High initiative, able to work with a minimum of direction, and able to work in team environment
• Minimum 80% bilingual English / Spanish
• Experience working with manual and semi-automated assembly processes of complex, high precision components in a manufacturing environment.

Experiences/Education - Desired

• OCS Process Disciplines and Product knowledge including connector preparation, polishing, furcation, fiber-optic connector optical testing, cable management, etc.
• Experience in the development or manufacturing of optical fiber cable and connector assemblies.
• Training and/or practical experience in a field involving optical physics.
• Green Belt DMAIC certified.
• Green Belt PQA certified (for internal candidates).
• Experience with Total Preventive Maintenance and the deployment of new equipment into manufacturing (Early Equipment Management – EEM).
• Experience designing error-proofing solutions for new product and processes.