Manufacturing Electrical Engineer
This is a Manufacturing Electrical/Test Engineering position supporting our Business and Regional Avionics (B&RA) product line in our Melbourne, Florida facility. In this challenging, fast paced role, you will be responsible for the development, verification, and sustainment of test processes, test equipment, and procedures that will be used in the manufacturing of new and existing Collins Aerospace products.
Projects & New Solutions
- Participate in cross-functional team efforts to improve test yields, production throughput, test capacity, and overall product Quality.
- Identify component test failure trends and perform root cause analysis. Implement corrective actions to resolve. Prepare test failure analysis reports as required for production.
- Study performance and reliability of existing test equipment and establish programs and solutions for decreasing test equipment downtime.
- Analyze test approach, plans, and processes for cost reduction, test efficiency, test yields, and manufacturing test capacity opportunities.
- Provide capacity planning and utilization analysis for accurate staffing and test equipment needs. Identify new test approaches that will minimize production staffing needs and capital requirements.
- Select and order capital test equipment using sound cost/payback analysis. Generate and track Appropriation Requests.
- Design or improve existing test fixtures and equipment needed to improve test performance.
- Support development of design engineering test solutions required for product performance verification.
- Provide recommendations to improve design of next generation test equipment.
- Support producibility and Testability initiatives for new designs and product upgrades.
- Participates in Production Readiness Reviews to determine suitability of new designs for production.
- Support efforts to conduct gage R&R efforts on new test solutions to verify consistent product and equipment performance.
Sustain/Support
- Responsible for providing technical support for entire product test process, board level through top-level test.
- Develop complete working knowledge of any assigned test systems and hardware.
- Interface with design engineering in coordinating design changes required for sustaining production during the resolution of obsolete part, tolerance, and test yield issues.
- Work with test technicians to train them on products and test systems. Assist them with troubleshooting of failed product.
- Maintain test documentation for current configuration and oversee accurate change management procedures for all test documents.
Qualifications/Experience Required:
- Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) unless prohibited by local laws/regulations and less than 2 years prior relevant experience or in absence of a degree, 6 years of relevant experience.
- U.S. Person (U.S. citizen, permanent resident, refugee or asylee) or eligible to obtain necessary export authorizations required.
- https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-22/chapter-I/subchapter-M/part-120/subpart-C/section-120.62
- Basic knowledge and understanding of software programming.
- Basic statistics. Understands Parametric Process control and versed in implementation use and interpretation of Six sigma control methods.
- Working knowledge of Lean electronics.
Qualifications/Experience Preferred:
- Must be a self-starter with ability to effectively manage competing priorities.
- Manufacturing experience
- Dependable – demonstrates the ability to follow through on work assignments with little to no prompting and raises any potential issues found to leadership.
- Drive – Exerts energy, persistence, and a positive attitude towards meeting project deadlines.
- Teamwork! – fosters collaboration and communication and invested in the success of the group.