Manufacturing Engineer - Nidec Motor Corporation

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Job Summary

Job Description

Manufacturing Engineer IV

Electronics Manufacturing Engineer develops and improves product designs for manufacturability, improves production processes, and creates all required documentation and test equipment for CM’s to manufacture goods correctly.   

Responsibilities & Duties

• Lead a cross functional team to review manufacturing issues, identifying corrective actions and process improvement projects.
• Oversee manufacturing and testing process to ensure ECM’s have the required specifications, manufacturing process, assembly equipment, gauges, tooling fixtures, testers and software for product to be built correctly (to spec)
• Maintain dashboard on ECM’s manufacturing metrics (units built, defects found, first pass yield, etc (Pareto)).
• Optimize production builds, review products for Design for Manufacturing.
• Transfer designs to ARAS and ECM’s ensuring BOM’s, Drawings, and all documentation is correct and up to Nidec standards.
• Audit pilot production runs at ECM’s ensure builds go smoothly and implement Safe Launch process to detect and contain non-conformances to prevent escape from ECM’s
• Identify new and alternate components for shortages and or cost reductions.
• Maintain Alternate Vendor List (AVL)
• Manage ECN process for RoboteQ products, manage design changes
• Update drawings or make changes to mechanical parts as required
• Define manufacturing test specifications for burn-in and functional tests. 
• Develop fixtures to support build and test of units aimed at speeding production and reduce test time while proactively preventing nonconforming product.
• Support New Product Introductions to ECMs
• Support Quality audits
• Evaluate manufacturing processes based on quality criteria, such as efficiency and speed.
• Develop and specify production and machine requirements
• Develop and test effective automated and manual systems.
• Design,  install and qualify equipment, tooling and fixtures.
• Organize and manage manufacturing workflows and resources
• Integrate disparate systems (e.g. equipment handling, transport)

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
• 7+ years of relevant experience
• Bachelor's Degree in related field
• Commercial awareness.
• Ability to work well under pressure
• Problem-solving skills.
• Teamworking skills.
• Relevant technical knowledge
• Good leadership skill, IT skills and communication

Additional Job Details

Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action at Nidec
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No Soliciting

Nidec will not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third party recruiting agencies in response to Nidec job postings. No fee will be paid to third parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to our hiring managers. Pre-approval from the Nidec Talent Acquisition team is required before any external candidate can be submitted and such candidate must be submitted to the Nidec Talent Acquisition team.