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- The Process Development Engineer needs to be adept at predicting sources of variation and potential failure modes within the manufacturing process. Implement cost-effective solutions to facilitate economical manufacture at the quality level and cycle time required.
- Utilize advanced quality planning methods (FMEA, detailed flow charts, control plans, etc.) to predict problem areas and implement countermeasures. These countermeasures would include process selection, containment, detection methods and controls, etc.
- Able to specify and implement manufacturing processes that meet the product design requirements, customer specifications, and design to cost goals.
- Understand the concept of total cost of manufacture to rationalize make vs. buy decisions, able to compile detailed cost estimates to drive process decisions
- Influence product designs to insure economical manufacture that is consistent with the chosen manufacturing strategy
- Assist in the debug & qualification of new assembly and test equipment for both sample line and manufacturing lines
- Facilitate the successful launch of new products by providing training and documentation to operations
- Apply lessons learned from previous NPD programs to continuously improving the speed, cost, and quality of the new products manufacturing process
- Perform capacity analysis and planning for effective asset utilization
- Generate manufacturing floor plans and process flows that maximize lean manufacturing techniques to efficiency.
- Work with suppliers and contract manufacturers to insure processes are capable, have sufficient controls in place, can meet our delivery requirements, and meet our cost targets.
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