Failure Analysis Product Lead Engineer- 6 Month Contract - Richardson, United States - Celestica

Description

Req ID:

Region: Americas

Country: United States

State/Province: Texas

City: Richardson

**General Overview**

**Functional Area:** Engineering

**Career Stream:** Process Engineering Manufacturing

**SAP Short Name:** SLE-ENG-PRM

**Job Level:** Level 09

**IC/MGR:** Individual Contributor

**Direct/Indirect Indicator:** Indirect

**Summary**

Are you able to grasp complex system level issues at a high level, and also enjoy diving deeply into the analysis of specific engineering challenges? Do you enjoy working across disciplines, applying your engineering knowledge to understand and resolve manufacturing issues with a diverse engineering and business team? Do you thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment? If so, we would like you to join our team as we continue our successful launches of exciting Microsoft hardware products such as Surface, Xbox, and Hololens.

Our team collaborates with hardware development and manufacturing teams early in the development cycle to identify and resolve design risks which may impact impede product launches. Our engagement continues through engineering builds to characterize manufacturing defects and drive improvements in design, material, and process to maximize the initial launch yield. As the product development lifecycle shifts to mass production, we own identifying and implementing improvements in manufacturing processes and repair methods in order to achieve manufacturing yield, volume, and cost metrics.

As a Lead Product Engineer, you will apply engineering theory, circuit analysis, and root cause analysis methods to isolate sources of failure, define experiments to validate theory of failure, identify and lead implementation of corrective actions with partner teams. You will have the opportunity to mentor junior product engineers in failure analysis and manufacturing best practices. Regular travel to Asia will be required to accomplish critical objectives and guide contract manufacturing activities.

Those who are relentlessly curious, excellent communicators, and driven to continuously improve upon previous successes will excel within our team.

**Detailed Description**

Required Qualifications and Capabilities:

+ Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering or Electrical/Computer Engineering is highly desired. Applicants having other degrees and commensurate experience in electronics development and/or manufacturing will be considered.

+ 8+ years in an engineering role, directly contributing to the design or manufacture of complex products. Experience with high-volume consumer electronics is strongly desired.

+ Collaborates effectively in a cross-functional teams to meet time, cost, and performance-related objectives.

+ Understands fundamental concepts of PC, mobile phone, or similar complex electronics system design and operation, including the operation of related subsystems, interfaces, and components.

+ Applies engineering theory, statistical methods, circuit/signal/material analysis, and interpretation of manufacturing test logs and measurements to isolate contributing factors driving production defects.

+ Utilizes standard test equipment to characterize device, component, and material performance, including multimeters, oscilloscopes, microscopes, thermal imaging, gauges, calipers, etc

+ Leverages robust Root Cause/Corrective Action and Quality Management Tools to guide actions, summarize findings, and achieve improvement results, including concepts of Six Sigma, 5C, 8D, and similar.

+ Self-manages daily and long-term activities to meet program objectives with minimal management guidance, including prioritizing activities and leading outcomes of junior engineers and a manufacturing partner engineering support team.

+ Communication skills are essential - candidate must express technical concepts in verbal and written forms to peers and management

**Knowledge/Skills/Competencies**

Refer to technical skills below

**Physical Demands**

+ Duties of this position are performed in a normal office environment.

+ 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, using a calculator, etc.) are frequently required.

+ Occasional travel may be required.

**Typical Experience**

+ 4 to 6 years in a similar role or industry.

**Typical Education**

+ Bachelor's Degree

**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.

Celesticas 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 worlds 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.