Manufacturing & Process Development Engineer

Job Overview

TE Connectivity's Manufacturing and Process Development Engineering Teams significantly impact LEANPD driven new product development projects, driving for excellence in existing manufacturing technologies and methods while striving to implement new manufacturing technologies to provide improved process and tolerance control. They act as the binding element between product development and manufacturing engineering, ensuring the effectiveness and efficiency of this critical interface. They support Product Development in the optimization of designs and piece parts for manufacturability by realizing sample tooling/products/prototypes. They also design, develop, and qualify tooling and processes to meet TE quality and production standards, document all processes and tooling in applicable TE systems, support supply chain to verify supplier compliance and capability, initiate and implement programs to continuously improve quality, cost and cycle time and adhere to all appropriate specifications, regulatory requirements and customer requirements.

Essential Functions:
⦁    Oversight of Quality, Environmental, Health & Safety functions.
⦁    Define project objectives, project scope, roles & responsibilities.
⦁    Outline budget based on requirements and track costs to deliver projects on-budget.
⦁    Analyzes Product Requirement specifications to determine best manufacturing routing in Operations in the development of equipment, processes and products.
⦁    Produces required tolerance analysis, process capability analysis and bills of materials for equipment.
⦁    Responsible for CAD tooling design and cost estimates and resource requirements on new processing equipment to the engineering manager and project managers.
⦁    Review product requirements with respect to extrusion and expansion processes and machine capabilities with Product Development engineering.
⦁    Determines tools, fixtures and equipment to be used in extrusion, cross linking, expansion and finishing processes.
⦁    Research available technologies with the objective of improving product quality, reducing cost or increasing capacity; develops sensible plans to evaluate, implement and then to audit the efficacy of completed technology improvement projects.
⦁    Be able to support in the creation of specification documents and 
⦁    Supports the Lead engineers in their role to be able to implement new ideas into the plant and help roll out the processes and validations required.
⦁    Works with the team to help plan, execute and evaluate all the documents for new equipment and plant trials. 

What your background should look like:

• Has had experience in various engineering fields relating to manufacturing, new product and process development, automation and equipment design.
• BS in Chemical or Mechanical Engineering or related field, with focus on process equipment design and automated systems being desirable.
• Experience with extrusion and applicable tooling and high shear compound mixing is desired.
• Experienced in CAD
• Knowledge of ANSYS
• Knowledge of control systems is desired.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including presentations and public speaking; Fluent English speaking and written capabilities for ability to represent the Company, when required, on matters that affect Company operations and/or its products.

Competencies