Manufacturing Engineer - plating (m/w/d)

Job Overview

TE Connectivity Advanced Manufacturing Engineering & Technology Group has an opportunity for a mechanical engineer with project management experience and team working capabilities in the Plating Core Process Technology group. The individual shall provide insight into mechanical design in automated plating production lines, and also be able to provide project development support for plants- including sharing best practices at sites and helping to implement & scale globally

Job Requirements

As an engineer in plating, you will report to the Plating Manufacturing Engineering Director and interface directly with the plating development team as well as the plant manufacturing teams to provide technical automation knowledge on current leading edge and next generation technologies. You will be working closely with process engineers, manufacturing engineers and external system integrators. Most importantly, you will be a safe-guard for the mechanical design, project schedule and project task during different phases of an automation project, including requirement definitions, concept review and detailed design review, installation, training and final ramp-up trouble shooting, all the way to transition the automation project to the maintenance team. Job Responsibilities will include:

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  • Effectively communicate with other plating manufacturing engineering team members regarding possible technical difficulties or road-blocks and lean on our team or global expertise to solve
  
  
  • Be responsible for updating training content in plating- updating old files and re-publishing with support from our team on the technical side
  
  
  • Own the plating internal sharepoint site, custom plating AI agent, and any additional agents for plating
  
  
  • Work with product engineering and product launch engineers to help with DFM (design for manufacturing) gaps that exist between product design & manufacturing through creation of additional standards, trainings, or AI agents.
  
  
  • Understanding of internal TE specifications and support applying them to plating automation lines
  
  
  • Be a vital owner of TE’s Plating roadmap- helping to launch & support projects to take TE plating into the future
  
  
  • Enable smooth and open communication with external non-standard automation equipment vendor regarding the automation projects requirements
  
  
  • Work with internal or external automation team members to over-come major technical challenges in mechanical design in a timely manner
  
  
  • Continually learning and leading surface finishing technologies and market trends.  Match business strategies to apply new plating chemistries and automation / digital projects
  
  
  
  

What your background should look like

• A strong technically oriented engineer (Mechanical, Chemical, Industrial, Electical) with clearly demonstrated experience in project management, connector design and/or surface finishing


• Excellent business acumen with deep experience in analyzing current technologies and capabilities on the market- skilled in Microsoft excel plus analysis tools such as Power BI or Tableau.


• Skilled in Creo Parametric 2.0 or other design software


• Ability to communicate technical ideas, vision and inspire internal and external partners to deliver and execute automation solutions to fulfill business needs


• Willingness to travel internationally up to 50%

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