Advanced Manufacturing Engineer, Actuators

Job description

We are looking for an Advanced Manufacturing Engineer to shape how our actuators, motors and gearboxes are built at scale. You will work with design engineering from early concept to make products easier to build, test and automate. You will help own the manufacturing concept for new products: process flow, factory layout, line balancing and the automation strategy. Detailed line and equipment design is handled by a separate team.

You will hand them a defined, validated concept.

Key job responsibilities

- Help lead DFM, DFA and design-for-test reviews for actuators, motors and gearboxes, starting at the concept stage. Turn findings into specific design change requests and drive them to closure with design engineering.

- Influence product architecture (part count, assembly direction, fastening and joining methods, tolerance allocation) so it can be built on automated lines at volume.

- Help develop the manufacturing concept for each new product: process flow diagrams, station definitions, cycle time estimates, line balancing and factory layouts.

- Choose the automation level for each process step (manual, semi-automated or fully automated) and justify it with cost, quality, throughput and capital estimates.

- Define the in-process and end-of-line test strategy alongside design and quality engineering.

- Evaluate manufacturing equipment suppliers. Run concept studies, feasibility trials and proof-of-concept builds with them. Stay engaged through equipment buy-off and start of production.

- Identify the highest-risk processes early and reduce that risk with experiments, prototype builds and supplier trials before detailed line design begins.

- Write the requirements and concept package that the detailed line design team uses to build the line.

- Develop new assembly and test methods where standard industry processes do not meet cost, quality or rate targets.