Northborn
10 months ago
Lead Process Engineer
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Company information
- Company
- Northborn
- Location
- New Zealand New Zealand
- Posted
- 10 months ago
Job description
Lead Process Engineer
About the role
We’re looking for a hands-on, high-impact process engineer to lead assembly process development at our client's contract manufacturing factory in Thailand as they scale up high-volume manufacturing. Our client's products operate in some of the toughest outdoor conditions in the world — ultra-reliable processes are non-negotiable.
You’ll be responsible for designing, optimizing, and scaling end-to-end assembly processes — from manual to fully automated — working directly with teams across Thailand, China, and New Zealand. You’ll collaborate closely with our client's design engineers to meet tight product specs and build hardware that performs every time.
If you’re a process expert who thrives in fast-paced environments and loves getting stuck into real-world problems, this role is for you.
What your day could look like
About the role
We’re looking for a hands-on, high-impact process engineer to lead assembly process development at our client's contract manufacturing factory in Thailand as they scale up high-volume manufacturing. Our client's products operate in some of the toughest outdoor conditions in the world — ultra-reliable processes are non-negotiable.
You’ll be responsible for designing, optimizing, and scaling end-to-end assembly processes — from manual to fully automated — working directly with teams across Thailand, China, and New Zealand. You’ll collaborate closely with our client's design engineers to meet tight product specs and build hardware that performs every time.
If you’re a process expert who thrives in fast-paced environments and loves getting stuck into real-world problems, this role is for you.
What your day could look like
- Setting up highly consistent gluing, encapsulation, or lamination processes. You will select the equipment, get hands-on to understand the fundamentals, set up based on first principles, and then implement quality controls.
- Implementing manual, semi-automated, and fully automated assembly processes. You'll identify the right solution to further ramp up our client's high volume, using automation to increase quality and decrease assembly costs.
- Using statistical process control (SPC), error proofing, line balancing, and standardization to maintain a high level of process efficiency and consistency.
- Troubleshooting production process issues, triaging, and leading the team to a root cause using a first principles approach.
- Mentoring more junior members of the team on production processes.
- Working with our client's contract manufacturing partners and suppliers to maintain excellent quality, meet process output demand, and deliver process projects.
- Providing feedback and ensuring effective and timely corrective actions.
- A Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or a similar field is highly desired.
- Minimum 7 years of experience in consumer electronics manufacturing, including SMT and final assembly of complex products.
- Experience with implementing highly reliable mechanical assembly and dispensing processes (e.g., gluing, lamination, or potting).
- A broad understanding of consumer electronics assembly techniques, including PCB fabrication, SMT, THT, injection molding, adhesive application (including surface prep, dispensing and curing), and waterproofing.
- Expertise in process quality control (e.g., DOE, PFMEA, SPC, IPQC, calibration & preventative maintenance) and a proven track record of using production data and KPIs to drive results.
- Strong experience debugging processes and using failure analysis to drive process improvement.
- Willing to regularly travel internationally (estimated 10-25% of the year).
- Someone who is proactive, obsessed with delivering quality products, and will thrive in a self-motivated and demanding startup atmosphere.
Required skills
- calibration
- mechanical assembly
- injection molding
- kpis
- waterproofing
- preventative maintenance
- production data
- pfmea
- smt
- tht
- standardization
- spc
- lamination
- process engineer
- gluing
- statistical process control
- error proofing
- doe
- assembly process development
- line balancing
- adhesive application
- consumer electronics manufacturing
- final assembly
- dispensing processes
- potting
- pcb fabrication
- process quality control
- ipqc
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