Sr Engineer Manufacturing

Your Career

As a Senior Manufacturing Engineer you will be a key leader on our Manufacturing Engineering team steering the product lifecycle from initial development to mass production and beyond. You will be instrumental in the launch and ongoing support of our hardware products ensuring a seamless flow from the design phase to the factory floor and supply chain. This is a high-impact role where you will collaborate with cross-functional teams and our contract manufacturing partners to deliver industry-leading cybersecurity products that drive outstanding business results.

Your Impact

• Lead Design for Excellence (DFx): Champion DFx principles by proactively engaging in design reviews from the earliest stages of product development. Your expertise will be critical in ensuring manufacturability quality time-to-market and cost targets are met driving optimal outcomes for new hardware products.
• Strategic Factory Leadership: Take full ownership of factory and line readiness for all assigned new product programs. You will lead manufacturing and assembly activities on-site managing the process from development builds through to mass production and sustaining phases.
• Product Lifecycle Management (PLM): Strategically define and structure complex bills of materials (BOMs) and assemblies within our PLM tools. You will lead the efficient management of Engineering Change Orders (ECOs) and deviations in close partnership with Document Control and development teams.
• Process and Change Management: Drive the development and implementation of ECOs to support new product introductions (NPI) design changes manufacturing process improvements and quality issue resolutions.
• Root Cause Analysis: Lead Root Cause Corrective and Preventive Actions at the factory to resolve complex design component and manufacturing process issues ensuring continuous improvement.
• Sustaining Engineering Support: Provide technical support for failure analysis of product field failures across our global customer base and support repair activities as needed.
• Continuous Improvement: Champion and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives across Manufacturing Engineering and Technical Operations enhancing overall efficiency and quality.

Qualifications :

Your Experience 

• A Bachelors degree in a relevant engineering discipline or equivalent experience.
• Hands-on experience in DFM DFA and FMEA PFMEA tolerance analysis DoE SPC GR&R and CpK.
• Proficiency in CAD tools for component placement reviews.
• Hand-on experience in SMT assembly process (solder paste printing pick-and-place reflow AOI SPI).
• Ability to read schematics perform BOM reviews and BOM ECOs.
• Expertise in design and manufacturing processes including mechanical assembly printed circuit boards and electro-mechanical integration. A focus on mechanical design is a significant advantage.
• Proficiency with PLM software (e.g. Arena Agile).
• A proven track record of successfully launching and sustaining complex electro-mechanical products into manufacturing environments.
• Extensive experience collaborating with contract manufacturers in low/medium volume high-mix production environments.
• Experience with various product development models including OEM JDM and ODM.
• Exceptional organizational skills with the ability to lead multiple fast-paced projects simultaneously.
• Outstanding communication skills capable of engaging professionally and effectively with a wide range of stakeholders from technical peers to senior leadership and external suppliers.
• The ability to travel regularly to Palo Alto Networks corporate locations and participate in calls with global teams as needed.

Additional Information :

The Team

Our World-Wide Operations team is a team of professionals with extensive business and project management experience in the contract manufacturing industry. This team has a proven track record of success in all aspects of supply chain and project management. Were dedicated to growing production reducing operating costs and improving product quality by utilizing World-class Manufacturing concepts to optimize supply chain processes and strategies. Our manufacturing team leadership establishes clear objectives defining and implementing profit improvement and profiling inventory management valuation and lead-time improvement programs. If you have a passion for extensive end-to-end manufacturing and supply chain with the knowledge and experience we want you!

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications experience and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $106000 - $145000/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

Our Commitment

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Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age ancestry color family or medical care leave gender identity or expression genetic information marital status medical condition national origin physical or mental disability political affiliation protected veteran status race religion sex (including pregnancy) sexual orientation or other legally protected characteristics.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Full-time