Manufacturing Design Engineer- Soft Goods

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products services and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passionnand dedication to your job and theres no telling what you could people here at Apple dont just create products they create the kind of wondernthats revolutionized entire industries. Its the diversity of those people and their ideasnthat inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do from amazingntechnology to industry-leading environmental efforts. Join Apple and help us leave thenworld better than we found

In this highly visible role you will manage selection implementation optimization and scale up of manufacturing processes for our legendary soft goods products. You will utilize your mechanical engineering experience and work across multi-functional teams in Product Design and Industrial Design to assess product features for manufacturability and recommend capable processes and equipment.

Process Development:nPlanning proposing and leading experiments to produce timely and accurate analyses used to drive design development and supply chain the suitability of a fabrication technology for a given part design. Planning validation exercises to demonstrate initial feasibility as well as manufacturing capability. Analyzing results of validation exercises and provide technical Product Introduction:nActs as lead engineer to drive process development and capability assessment activities reviewing part design documentation to ensure alignment with process specific tasks and work with Apple suppliers to support process development and/or data gathering activities. Set clear goals for results and provide timely reviews of performance throughout validation procedures to determine acceptance of tooling into development builds as well as mass Execution:nReview supplier tool design process flow equipment selection DFM and DOE proposals. Identify shortfalls and corrective actions to ensure design with supplier engineering teams to map out process development exercises secure resources and commit to schedules in line with program supplier readiness to support build events and production ramp. Identify potential execution issues and provide recommendations to mitigate

BS in Mechanical Engineering Industrial Engineering or a related field.n7 years of experience supporting new product launches from a mechanical tooling or product development with mechanical fabricated parts or adhesives glues jigs fixtures tooling injection molding plastics experience is experience applying Design of Experiments (DOE) Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GDu0026T) and Statistical Process Control (SPC) leading suppliers technical team in the development and qualification of manufacturing processnExperience defining u0026 executing mass production qualification requirementsn

Experience solving complex mechanical or manufacturing experience particularly in with highly cosmetic written and verbal communication skills.