Responsibilities

Own end-to-end development and qualification of automation equipment and control systems at contract manufacturers, spanning equipment selection, new product introduction (NPI), line bring-up, and high-volume production support
Engage early with suppliers on equipment selection, fixturing design, and controls architecture to properly set up high-volume manufacturing programs by ensuring material and process corners are fully characterized and completed
Design and qualify custom automation fixtures, workholding solutions, and poka-yoke mechanisms to ensure repeatability, ergonomics, and high process capability
Develop and optimize conveyor systems, including conveyor logic, routing algorithms, accumulation strategies, and material flow control to maximize throughput and minimize work-in-process (WIP)
Program and debug programmable logic controller (PLC) logic, human-machine interfaces (HMI), and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems for automated cells, including safety interlocks, sequencing, and error recovery routines
Lead line optimization initiatives focused on takt time reduction, bottleneck analysis, overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) improvement, cycle time balancing, and throughput maximization
Integrate robotic systems, vision guidance, servo motion control, and torque tooling into automated assembly cells while ensuring robust communication protocols (EtherCAT, Ethernet/IP, Profinet)
Design and execute design of experiments (DOE) and corner case studies to validate equipment robustness across material variation, environmental conditions, and process parameter windows
Lead equipment and line qualification activities including installation qualification (IQ), operational qualification (OQ), performance qualification (PQ), gauge repeatability and reproducibility (GR&R), and production part approval process (PPAP)
Perform reactive quality engineering support, including rapid containment, root cause analysis using eight disciplines (8D) and five-whys (5-Why) methodologies, and corrective actions for equipment downtime, quality escapes, and field issues
Own on-time delivery of equipment bring-up and production ramp activities while continuously monitoring field performance, reacting quickly to issues, and feeding lessons learned from field data back to design and process engineering teams for iterative improvement

Supplier Development Engineer, Automation & Controls (Starlink) at SpaceX · LumiJobs

Supplier Development Engineer, Automation & Controls (Starlink)

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