Senior Engineer - Cloud & Infra Management

Job responsibilities:

Support Design Engineering in identification and qualification of electrical and mechanical components.

Initiate and lead the efforts to identify and qualify second sources for material availability, cost reduction and reliability improvement purposes.

Develop and execute component evaluation, acceptance, and qualification test plans. # Identify critical and high-risk components in products. Develop and execute reliability test plans for these components. # Conduct regular audits for key component suppliers.

Communicate to component manufacturers regarding component failures. Drive component failure analysis and corrective actions to closure.

Review, analyze and optimize Bills of Materials (BOM#s) down to manufacturer part level.

Ensure components are compliant to necessary environmental and safety standards, e.g. RoHS, REACH, UL, CE, CSA, Conflict Minerals, etc.

Maintain Approved Vendor List (AVL). Issue Engineering Change Orders (ECO#s), Manufacturing Change Orders (MCO#s) and Deviations.

Review and address Product Change Notices (PCN#s) from component manufacturers.

Track component lifecycles. Proactively identify and drive solutions to resolve End-of-life (EOL) and obsolete situations and minimize impacts.

Focal point for Contract Manufacturing for all technical component issues.

Understand component technology roadmaps/trends and present them to Design Engineering.

 

Skill set Requirements:

BS/MS or equivalent degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering or equivalent.

Minimum 7 years of experience.

Familiar with Printed Circuit Board Assembly (PCBA) and metal/plastic fabrication processes.

Understand the environments and requirements for both New Product Introduction (NPI) and volume manufacturing.

Experience with power electronics and utility products a plus.

Experience with Arena PLM a plus. (Aras OnePDM)

Excellent oral and written communication skills.

Excellent project management skills.