Education
- Minimum: EE or BA/BS Engineering or equivalent technical discipline with at least 5 years' experience in a cable manufacturing and/or cable assembly environment.
Experience
- Experience with the design and manufacture of cable products and an intimate understanding of the use of cable manufacturing equipment such as extruders (thermoplastic and thermoset), cablers, braiders, and tapers.
- Experience with design of cable assemblies and operations to support production; cable cutting, cable preparation (stripping, tinning, etc.), connectors, shielding, terminations (crimping, soldering, splicing, etc) and injection molding of thermoplastics and silicone rubber.
- Experience with DFM, pFMEA, APQP process flow and electrical failure analysis.
Skills
- Ability to work well with multiple project teams from various groups simultaneously.
- Knowledge of wire and cable components/construction (conductors, plating, stranding, insulation, lay lengths, shielding, jackets, etc.)
- Knowledge of cable electrical characterization: capacitance, inductance, resistance, attenuation, characteristic impedance, skew, etc.
- Knowledge of cable test procedures and equipment to test for attenuation, impedance, capacitance, inductance, skew, Hipot, ground bond, tensile elongation, oven aging, cold bend, etc. Experience with high voltage cable is a definite plus.
- Knowledge of cable test equipment such as spark tester, TDR, LCR, milliohm meter, network analyzer, diameter measure equipment.
- Understanding how to process thermoplastics and thermoset materials in extrusion, injection molding, and bonding.
- Knowledge and experience with industry standards such as UL, CSA, Mil-std's, ASTM, IPC-610, 620.
- Assemblies: Ability to support custom overmold design, strain relief designs.
- Familiar with assembly test equipment such as Cirris, multi-meter, Hipot.
- Knowledge of lean manufacturing techniques
- Possess the ability to solve manufacturing problems.
- Capable of reading and interpreting customer drawings or specifications and communicating those requirements to others.
- Skilled in the use of Solidworks and AutoCAD.
- Fluent knowledge of Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel and Word.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Familiar with Total Quality Management such as ISO 13485
Duties & Responsibilities
- Design and creation of new designs for cable and assemblies and/or manufacturing capabilities.
- Support manufacturing operations, including operators, supervisors, production control, and other manufacturing personnel.
- Develop electrical test fixture for cable assembly.
- Support sales staff by offering new capabilities with either innovative products and/or throughput improvement.
- Support purchasing with purchased part descriptions and specifications.
- Support quality control by providing inspection information and plans necessary to verify that product meets customer requirements. Interpret Military Specs, NEC Code, UL, & CSA requirements
- Recommend designs based on customer needs.
- Work with document control to ensure all updates are performed on manufacturing documentation including bills of material, routings, work instructions, product drawings and process sheets.
- Recommend new process designs based on customer needs.
- Create new process design and/or manufacturing capabilities.
- Train personnel from manufacturing on new processes and update instructions.
- Data collection and analytical tool.
- Troubleshooting test equipment and define current issue/root cause.
- Work directly with our customers' Engineers, as assigned in the development of new products and processes.
- Some travel required to customer sites.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $85,000.00 - $100,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vision insurance
Experience level:
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
Work setting:
- In-person
- Manufacturing facility
Ability to Commute:
- Fremont, CA 94538 (Required)
Ability to Relocate:
- Fremont, CA 94538: Relocate before starting work (Required)
Work Location: In person