Manufacturing Process Engineer, Senior

**Remote Work: Yes**

**Overview**:
At Zebra, we extend the edge of possibility by shaping the future of work on the front line—reinventing how businesses run and moving society forward.

We are a community of changemakers, innovators and doers who come together to deliver a performance edge to the front line of business. We develop new technologies and create new solutions with partners to help organizations act with greater visibility, connectivity, and intelligence—delivering better experiences for workers and those they serve.

Being a part of Zebra means being seen, heard, valued, and respected as you define your path to a fulfilling career. Here, you'll have opportunities to learn and lead at a leading company, and you can channel your skills towards causes that you and the Zebra community care about, locally, and globally.

Together, we've only begun to define the edge of what's possible—for our people, our customers, and the world.

The NPI Engineering and Supply Chain Operations department works closely with the Zebra Supply Chain teams and its suppliers to successfully integrate new products into the EMS/JDM factories. The team works closely with the product development engineers to improve DFx (Design for Assembly/Manufacturing) and insure high quality and high yield production in the factory.

Develops and implements process improvements to existing products to support cost reduction goals and Lean Six Sigma/Industry 4.0 implementation as well.

**Responsibilities**:

- Review the readiness of NPI manufacturing including documentations, fixtures, equipment and manpower. Recommends corrective actions and implements changes when issue happens. Identifies and mitigates risks, develops and implements risk mitigation plans
- Leader of Lean Six Sigma and Smart Factory implementation at our JDM/EMS supplier side during NPI stage
- Establishes requirements for highly complex manufacturing projects and may lead a team responsible for establishing requirements. Insure correct features are incorporated first in the projects. Insures correct features are incorporated first in the projects
- Architects and designs highly complex manufacturing projects. Completes all phases of the projects. Follows through on all in-process and final inspection activities
- Develops and applies technical and quality improvements
- Creates new programs, technologies and solutions based on novel or unique ideas. Insures new ideas and methodologies are documented for use by teams
- Uses status as a knowledge leader in manufacturing and functional knowledge across multiple engineering disciplines and program management to provide technical leadership to a given program
- Defines requirements for and may design complex new tools to aid in the analysis and solving of complex problems
- Initiates cross-company collaboration and develops positive relationships with other engineering disciplines
- Exercises judgment (within broadly defined policies and practices) in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results
- May coordinate the activities of other personnel
- Networks with key contacts outside own area of expertise. Interacts with management and senior customer personnel on matters requiring coordination across organizational lines. Represent the organization as the principal customer contact and often performs project leadership

**Qualifications**:

- BA/BS degree in an Engineering Discipline or relevant technology, from an accredited college or university is preferred.
- minimum of 5 years of work experience of electronic product manufacturing including PCBA and final assembly
- Familiar with lean manufacturing and six sigma green belt certification is preferred.
- Strong in English