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Advanced Energy · 4 days ago

Engineer III - Manufacturing

Fort Collins, CO

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$80K/yr - $130K/yr

5+ years exp

Advanced Energy is a global leader in the design and manufacturing of precision power conversion solutions. The Manufacturing Engineer evaluates and improves manufacturing processes to enhance production efficiency while managing costs and ensuring product quality.

Electrical & Electronic Manufacturing

Hiring Manager

Phillip Oliver

Responsibilities

Assists with line capacity planning and is responsible for yield improvements in collaboration with management and inputs from engineering sections globally across three business units (BUs)

Follows up on daily production issues, leads the team to increase yield, improving product quality and manufacturing cost reductions

Estimates manufacturing costs, determines time standards, and makes recommendations for tooling and process requirements

Using feedback from product quality provides corrective action and monitors implementation

Drives continuous improvement projects to elevate product performance in manufacturing

Performs preventative maintenance on manufacturing equipment

Creates and modifies manufacturing process documentation

Takes total ownership of documentation related to the BU in AE's Quality Management System (QMS) to include origination, modification, and obsolescence through Engineering Change Orders (ECOs)

Implements manufacturing-industry best known methods in support of continuous improvement projects to increase efficiency and effectivity of the production line

Analyzes work content for distribution to work centers and capacity requirements

Recommends and prepares process improvements which will facilitate manufacturing excellence

Assists product design teams to drive designs that meet all cost and quality goals

Reviews product requirements with design staff to ensure compatibility with processing methods

Performs Design for Manufacturability analysis on new products

Shares tactical level input to operators on manufacturability, training of and introduction to process improvements related to build and need

Owns entire process of the wire bonding program from start to finish across three tools, maintenance, programming, and troubleshooting

This includes production wire bonding when applicable

Responsible for dissemination of training to team members

Communicates as a team member, delivering process instructions across multiple, global BUs

Qualification

Wire bondingSolidWorksManufacturing engineering8D analysisIPC-610 standardsElectrostatic discharge (ESD)Interpersonal skillsProject managementProblem solving

Required

Comfortable working with various manufacturing and electronics tools: vacuum reflow ovens, wire bonders, solder printers, and EFDs

Demonstrated and tactical level experience or program management of wire bonding for Integrated Power Electronics Modules (IPEM) in the electronics or automotive industries

Ability to design fixtures for soldering and wire bonding

Ability to own multiple, but smaller scale design of experiments (DOEs) on a continual basis, as necessary

Proficient in 8 disciplines of problem solving (8D) analysis

Demonstrated ability to design and test within the tooling feedback cycle

Robust knowledge of SolidWorks required

Ability to demonstrate good judgment in selecting best practice methods and techniques for manufacturing

Proven professional skills as an experienced manufacturing engineer with a full understanding of industry practices and company policies and procedures

Knowledge of IPC-610 standards

Understanding of electrostatic discharge (ESD) protocols

Ability to solve complex technical problems independently

Ability to manage multiple projects at one time

Demonstrated ability to perpetuate and display great interpersonal skills in all forms of communication

Experience working with solder alloys, adhesives and encapsulants, and aluminum wire

Experience with soldering, encapsulant, and adhesive process and equipment

Experienced in application of the process capability index (Cpk) and statistical process control (SPC) data during DOE installation, and execution

Experience influencing and negotiating in complex situations

Five+ years of electronics manufacturing engineering experience preferably in a microelectronics or semiconductor production environment

Bachelors' degree in Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Science, or equivalent