The Sanmina Fremont facility is a full-service enclosure systems solution manufacturing plant. Located in California's Silicon Valley, this facility produces low-to-mid volume New Product Introduction (NPI) runs to full-scale volume. The Fremont facility offers everything from small piece parts to fully integrated and tested systems. In addition, this location offers in-house painting capabilities and flexible logistics solutions in distribution, inventory management and hubbing, as well as repair services.

Job Purpose:

The Manufacturing Engineer is responsible for dealing with projects and driving product improvements through the facility via data analysis, root causing - solutions development to assure non-fault launch/introduction in a production environment.

Nature of Duties/Responsibilities:

• Support validation of manufacturing bill of materials (BOM) for one or multiple lines.
• Lead and conduct product trial Preparation: Ensure part availability, line readiness, and pre-requisite data obtained and consolidated for new products or sustainability of existing product changes.
• Provide feedback to technical project/program manager and cross-functional team members on issues, yield impact, or manufacturability associated with a trial run.
• Complete Trial Report: Document observations, analysis, and results.
• Ensure manufacturing lines are validated and/or restored to prior condition post-trial(s) by evaluating the success of each trial (yield, downtime, cost, safety, etc.).
• Apply proven manufacturing practices to new products and existing products to refine, develop, and launch products.
• Develop and prove manufacturing and test processes during product development and launch.
• Hands-on in creating assembly and test procedures for existing and new designs for production transfer and launch.
• Organize and supervise process verification builds, using proven statistical methods.
• Help plan for capacity and throughput in a high mix low to medium volume environment.
• Provide DFM feedback to the engineering team.
• Help with updating documentation for production ramps.
• Other duties may be assigned as required.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering.
• 2 years of related manufacturing environment experience.
• Excellent attention to detail with strong record-keeping and organizational skills.
• Ability to perform well and grow under limited supervision.
• Highly-motivated self-starter.
• Must be reliable, innovative, committed, and quality-focused.
• Understands and appropriately applies principles, procedures, requirements, and policies related to specialized projects.
• Excellent written and verbal skills; Ability to communicate across cultures and geographic regions.
• Ability to communicate and coordinate activities.
• Can provide leadership and work closely with cross-functional departments.

This is an ITAR facility and applicant must be a US Citizen or a lawful permanent resident.

Salary Range(annual): $75,000 - $98,000 . Actual base pay within this range (determined at the offer stage) will be based on a candidate's years of relevant work experience, education, certifications, and skills, and is just one element of our total rewards package. The total rewards package also includes a variety of benefits, including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business and, depending on the role, may include eligibility for restricted stock unit awards and participation in a discretionary bonus program.