Watch Technical Program Manager
Cupertino, CA - USA
Job Summary
Apples Operations team ensures that Apples ground breaking designs become industry-leading products delivered on time and on spec. This high profile highly respected organization is positioned at the junction of Apples product teams the industries that supply core component technologies and our manufacturing partners who help ensure that products such as iPad iPhone and Mac can be restocked just as fast as they fly off the shelves.
Ensuring Design for closely with engineering teams through the entire development cycle to ensure that not only is the design robust but that it is manufacturable in high-volumes. This entails understanding new technologies structural/mechanical design and an ability to influence through data/statistics based -Manufacturer (CM) Readiness: Work with the CapEx Fixture (Automation / Manual) and Factory teams at every build to ensure that the fixtures needed for assembling the product and the test stations for testing them are in place and qualified; SOP for assembling products are ready and the operators are management: Lead the team to triage all yield hitters and drive Failure Analysis (FA) to understand if the issues are on account of Design/Process/Part-quality and drive the responsible teams to address the : Synthesize information on the program (product readiness for mass-production factory readiness relevant trade-offs impact on development milestones) into concise communication for Senior contract manufacturer preparation for pre-production process development documentation optimization and and implementation of new technologies to improve production quality capacity and standard practices and independently settles impact to design approaches and parameters to the final direction mentorship and resources to other engineering groups and project leaders as well as factory early and ongoing manufacturing involvement to ensure manufacturability of new Engineering - Works all phases of a product from concept to repeat manufacturing to end of life. Provides production support engineering with respect to technically complex testing methods procedures and failure Engineering - Designs and develops technically complex processes to improve throughput quality and Analysis - Plans develops and implements technically complex procedures for the testing and evaluation of soon to be released products. Specifies test to be performed compiles data and makes recommendations for product design changes and final assembly standards. This will include the use of Design of Experiments (DOE) and statistical analysis using Six Sigma regular VP level communication of technical health of program.
3 years of experience in manufacturing process engineering or product in an engineering discipline.
Experience in introducing products into manufacturing or high volume production is a huge project management skills experience working in a matrix organization. (Planning Cost u0026 Delivery).nDirect experience interfacing with or leading any of the following functional engineering teams a plus (ME EE TE DFX Etc.).nExperience working with OEM internationally and/or domestically up to 30%.nAbility to communicate effectively in a worldwide Product Introduction and Manufacturing Operations experience working experience with DFm u0026 DFxnProven track record of cost reduction project management and engineering design to understand tolerance stack ups for complex parts systems and final working with and dimensioning different materials a plusnSolid understanding of GDu0026T principles a plusnJMP Minitab u0026 Six Sigma experience a plus.
Required Experience:
IC
About Company
Ask Siri to name the most successful company in the world and it might respond: Apple. And it's not just out of familial pride. Apple consistently ranks highly in profit, revenue, market capitalization, and consumer cachet. In 2018, the company became the first reach a trillion dollar ... View more