Staff Engineer, Global Mfg Engineering @ Commscope

Job Description

JOB DESCRIPTION
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Job Title : Staff Engineer, Global Mfg Engineering
Job Location : Goa
Regional New Product Introduction (NPI) Manufacturing Engineer focused on the Network Cable and Connectivity (NCC) business. As part of the overall Global Manufacturing Engineering (GME) organization, the role will be a key team member on a cross-functional development team responsible for multiple product launches per year. High visibility position across top leadership within CommScope. Ability to work and grow technical skills in a team environment with efforts focused on releasing new products or transferring products to a manufacturing location within the engineer's site or region.
Potential benefits:

• Opportunity to work on one of the highest visibility projects in the company that are part of our core strategic initiatives, where executive support abounds.
• Access to a global team that has a direct impact on the design of all future NCC for CommScope. It is rare to get to start over with designing products, and even rarer to be a part of it from the beginning.
• Opportunity to lead the Manufacturing Engineering team responsible for a product family and provide design guidance and manufacturing guidance from the beginning.
• Opportunity to learn more about how products are used, the different products CommScope makes, different manufacturing techniques, different ways to run plants, and what future technologies could help us in manufacturing.
• Opportunity to become more marketable for future advancement and growth by being a part of this team as exposure to high levels of the company is common.

Skills needed:

• Deep understanding of Fiber products, manufacturing processes, and assembly processes
• Experience using Lean manufacturing tools, DFM, LDSS, PFMEA with an eye for manufacturing simplicity
• Experience with the NPI process and working with a cross-functional, multi-cultural team.
• Experience with streamlining supply chain for raw material and intra/inter-plant supply.
• Ability to form cohesive relationships across Global sites and leadership functions to find ways on the How we can make it happen approach.
• Self-motivated, results-oriented, and able to work with limited supervision as the supervisor over this role may be remote and based in another country.

Expectations:

1. Participate in a cross-functional development team responsible for multiple product launches per year. Apply lean concepts, knowledge of existing manufacturing capability, design for manufacturing, and design for Six Sigma experience to guide the team to a robust design.
2. Review Make vs Buy for each new component requested by R&D. Ensure regional availability, work with NPI Procurement, and drive adherence to standards of components and equipment.
3. Develop process steps, cycle times, costs, line balancing, operators needed per module assembly or groups of modules.
   1. Analyze the grouping of modules made by the team to determine where the best division should be between pre-assembly and final assembly
   2. Develop creative ideas for transportation and internal logistics of Kanban's, materials, assemblies, process lines, material handling to enable
   3. Define Kanban locations, bin levels, RM storage, WIP storage, FG storage. The expectation is minimal operator involvement, and visual/automatic Kanban refills
   4. Define the process map with assembly times number of operators, line balancing, skills needed, assembly Mfg processes needed (e.g. welding), and other tools.
   5. Define and develop tool lists, and a creative way to keep up with them. Create support documentation and assist in the creation of work instructions to use the tools. This includes ideas on how to improve the cycle times using the tools, and ideas on how to eliminate the tools using automation.
   6. Develop the packaging strategy for modules and final assembly. End of line vs packaging station
4. Develop templates for CommScope to use on future modules/products.
   1. Design for manufacturing and feedback to R&D
   2. Design for Six Sigma and feedback to R&D
   3. PFMEA and feedback to R&D
   4. Design Costing
   5. Module design/layout
   6. Final assembly design/ layout
   7. Lessons learned
5. Work with the Global team to develop concepts for the assembly line for the future. Looking also to be modular and highly flexible to allow for changing demand and our space constraints.
6. Determine how best to eliminate all paper from the line and most operator inputs. Work instructions, continuous process checks, process data, and production data need to be very operator-independent.
7. Facilitate the handoff of the product designs to the local teams for production ramp-up.

Travel is estimated at
Reporting Structure:

• Will report to the NCC Global Manufacturing Engineering team

Requirements:

• BA/BS degree with 4-8 yrs of experience
• Proven product knowledge and technical/innovation skills
• Effective problem solver which makes an impact on the bottom line
• Proven leadership skills that can effectively communicate across the organization
• Proficient in communicating in English both verbally and written

Commscope is an Equal Opportunity Employer.6890668***

Employement Category:

Employement Type: Full time
Industry: IT
Functional Area: Manufacturing
Role Category: Production Manager
Role/Responsibilies: Staff Engineer, Global Mfg Engineering

Contact Details:

Company: Commscope
Location(s): India ,  Goa/Barangay Salog

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