Job: MANUFACTURING ENGINEER III

Jobing Description

MANUFACTURING ENGINEER III

Location: US-CA-MENLO PARK Requisition ID: 2011-28653
Alternative Work Site: .. Posted Date: 5/7/2011
ITAR : Yes

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Opportunity Details:
Purpose:

TE Connectivity is an industry leader with an entrepreneurial spirit, fueled by innovation and collaboration. Our emphasis on forward thinking has attracted the brightest industry minds, allowing them to thrive and create breakthrough solutions that deliver a competitive advantage to our customers.

TE Connectivity is a global, $12.1 billion company that designs and manufactures over 500,000 products that connect and protect the flow of power and data inside the products that touch every aspect of our lives. Our nearly 90,000 employees partner with customers in virtually every industry?from consumer electronics, energy and healthcare, to automotive, aerospace and communication networks?enabling smarter, faster, better technologies to connect products to possibilities.

Responsibilities:

The CIS Division of Tyco Electronics, a manufacturer of highly engineered solutions to the automotive, telecommunications, industrial, medical, rail and marine markets is seeking a Manufacturing Engineer to join our Compounding & Tubing team in Menlo Park, California.

We are looking for a hands-on, enthusiastic, positive, team player, open-minded and new challenge seeking Engineer with background in Chemical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering. Ideal candidate will need to have a Bachelor's degree with a minimum of 5 years of experience in an industrial environment or a Master's degree. Experience in Lean and/or Six-Sigma is a plus.

Requirement:

Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to the following:

- Support Manufacturing:

- Respond to production issues. Determine the cause of manufacturing defects or failures and take actions to correct and resolve the problems;

- Review, recommend and implement design, process or equipment changes;

- Set-up manufacturing procedures and process instructions.

- Resolve customer's complaints;

- Initiate/manage capital equipment projects. Specify and manage installation and start-up of new manufacturing equipment;

- Scale-up manufacturing processes;

- Analyze yield and process data;

- Create bill-of-materials, routing and manufacturing specifications for new products;

- Document technical and manufacturing information.

- Communicate and collaborate with other departments of TycoElectronics as needed

- Support Continuous Process Improvement/ Cost Savings type projects:

- Provide leadership and direction to individuals and multi-functional teams in identifying, planning and implementing Lean/Six-Sigma initiatives;

- Identifying and implementing key Lean/Six-Sigma metrics, estimating financial impact of projects, providing follow-up, updates and reports to management;

- Providing support of planned events, such as Kaizen;

- Utilizing team-based approach to elicit employee participation in the development of systems that improve the business.

Experience:

- Polymer processing; compounding and/or tubing extrusion. Hands-on experience with internal mixers, twin-screw extruders and/or single screw, single/dual wall tubing extrusion.

- Bachelor of Science in Chemical, Mechanical or Manufacturing Engineering with 5+ years of experience in an industrial environment or a Master s degree.
- Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt is a plus.
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to lead cross-functional teams and encourage cultural change.
- Must have a proven record of achieving cost savings and measurable operational improvements.
- Must have strong verbal and written communication skills and be able to communicate at all levels of the organization.



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