Senior Manufacturing Engineer Advanced Electromechanical Systems

Learning

Develop manufacturing expertise across precision rotating assemblies, electric machines, magnetic bearings, power electronics, fluid systems, production testing, and contract-manufacturing operations.

Impact

Directly influence product quality, cost, yield, assembly time, reliability, and Sapphire’s ability to execute a major production ramp supporting data-center infrastructure.

Becoming

Grow into a manufacturing leader with opportunities to own product industrialization, factory strategy, contract-manufacturing deployment, process technology, and future production platforms.

Requirements

First 90 Days

• ​First 90 Days — Establish Manufacturing Readiness
  
• Understand the product architecture, assembly sequence, build history, manufacturing risks, and production strategy.
  
• Lead DFM and DFA reviews, focusing on tolerances, assembly methods, inspection, testing, serviceability, and cost.
  
• Define the manufacturing process flow, critical-to-quality characteristics, tooling needs, control plans, and production-readiness plan.
  
• Establish a manufacturing risk register and close the most urgent gaps before production-intent builds.
  

First 180 Days

• ​Lead manufacturing readiness and execution for production-intent builds at Contract Manufacturers.
  
• Develop work instructions, tooling, fixtures, inspection methods, process controls, and test requirements.
  
• Capture build data and resolve assembly, quality, supplier, and documentation issues through structured root-cause analysis.
  
• Incorporate lessons learned into product designs and manufacturing processes.
  

First Year

• ​Deliver a documented and validated manufacturing process ready for commercial production and continued scale-up.
  
• Establish line layout, staffing, capacity, tooling, training, quality gates, and production-test requirements.
  
• Support transfer of the product to qualified contract-manufacturing partners.
  
• Improve yield, throughput, labor content, rework, and cost through process optimization.
  
• Establish a manufacturing roadmap addressing automation, capacity expansion, and continued cost reduction.
  

• Core Responsibilities
  
• ​Lead product industrialization from prototype through production launch and scale-up.
  
• Drive DFM and DFA decisions early in product development.
  
• Develop manufacturing strategies, process flows, routings, assembly methods, and capacity plans.
  
• Design and implement fixtures, tooling, gauges, process equipment, and production-test systems.
  
• Define assembly, alignment, balancing, leak-test, inspection, and functional-test processes.
  
• Create controlled work instructions, process specifications, quality checkpoints, and training materials.
  
• Lead PFMEA, process validation, build-readiness reviews, and manufacturing-risk mitigation.
  
• Provide hands-on support during prototype, pilot, validation, and production builds.
  
• Lead structured investigations into manufacturing defects, yield loss, rework, and process variation.
  
• Improve throughput, quality, labor efficiency, safety, and production cost.
  
• Support contract-manufacturer selection, qualification, technology transfer, training, and launch.
  
• Partner with engineering, quality, supply chain, operations, suppliers, and program management.
  

• ​Bachelor’s degree in Manufacturing, Mechanical, Industrial Engineering, or a related discipline.
  
• Eight or more years of manufacturing-engineering experience with complex electromechanical or industrial products.
  
• Demonstrated experience transitioning products from prototype development into commercial production.
  
• Strong experience with NPI, DFM, DFA, process development, tooling, and production scale-up.
  
• Experience creating work instructions, process documentation, PFMEAs, control plans, and production metrics.
  
• Experience transferring products to contract manufacturers or outsourced production partners.
  
• Knowledge of Lean manufacturing, process validation, structured root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement.
  
• Experience with ERP/MRP systems and manufacturing-planning processes.
  
• Strong technical judgment, communication, and cross-functional leadership skills.
  

• ​High-speed rotating machinery, compressors, turbines, pumps, motors, or generators
  
• Active magnetic bearings and precision rotor assemblies
  
• Alignment, balancing, leak testing, pressure testing, or performance testing
  
• Power electronics, PCB assemblies, sensors, and control systems
  
• Liquid cooling, thermal-management, or fluid-handling systems
  
• Precision machining, castings, electric-machine assembly, or high-voltage integration
  
• Production transfer to contract manufacturers
  
• Supplier qualification and process-capability assessment
  
• Automation and high-volume production-system development
  
• Lean Six Sigma certification
  

• ​Strong ownership and bias for action
  
• Hands-on approach to production problems
  
• Ability to bridge engineering design and manufacturing execution
  
• Practical judgment balancing quality, cost, schedule, and scalability
  
• Data-driven continuous-improvement mindset
  
• Clear communication and effective cross-functional influence
  

• Work will be divided among office, laboratory, manufacturing-floor, supplier, and contract-manufacturing environments.
  
• Occasional travel may be required for supplier development, manufacturing transfer, production launch, and troubleshooting.
  
• The role requires hands-on participation in assembly, testing, and manufacturing-development activities and may occasionally involve lifting equipment weighing up to 50 pounds.
  

Benefits