Product Engineer Job Listing at Flex in Columbia, SC (Job ID WD193401)

Description

Job Posting Start Date 12-20-2024 Job Posting End Date 02-20-2025Flex is the diversified manufacturing partner of choice that helps market-leading brands design, build and deliver innovative products that improve the world.We believe in the power of diversity and inclusion and cultivate a workplace culture of belonging that views uniqueness as a competitive edge and builds a community that enables our people to push the limits of innovation to make great products that create value and improve people's lives.A career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference and invest in your growth in a respectful, inclusive, and collaborative environment. If you are excited about a role but don't meet every bullet point, we encourage you to apply and join us to create the extraordinary. Job Summary

To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we're looking to add a Product Engineer located in Columbia SC.

Reporting to the Sr. Manufacturing Engineering Manager the Product Engineer will be responsible for receiving, evaluating, cleaning, and customizing all technical information / documentation from the customer related to their product, derived from a New Product Introduction (NPI) or a design change to establish all necessary processes to manufacture it by maintaining its design and performance integrity.

What a typical day looks like:

• Handle product transfer and new product set up.
• Support production by assessing product engineering issues of diverse scope that arise on
• production line.
• Suggest improvements to process to obtain improved quality and production yield.
• Solve product related problems and perform failure evaluation related to product issues.
• Interact with customer and various departments on product related issues.
• Work with design team to resolve design related issues.
• Suggest modification to work instructions, material, or product changes to ensure excellent quality of products.
• Customer´s Bill of Material (BOM) evaluation and structure definition for production.
• Functional Product Documentation review.
• Safety Requirements and regulations compliance identification.
• Engineering Drawings Interpretation of parts and assemblies.
• Request customer for drawing corrections, additions, clarification, measurements methods.
• Manage Engineering Changes Implementation.
• Conduct Design for Manufacturing (DFM), tolerance evaluation, Design of Experiment (DOE), form-fit-function to define failure root/cause evaluation and reporting to customer.
• Provide support to supply chain to integrate parts derived from the vertical integration or
• localization effort.
• Provide product training to the manufacturing/process engineers for better understanding of
• the product.
• Request, handle, and administrate golden samples, engineering samples of final product and/or piece parts.
• Establish, operate, and maintain a standard method for technical information interchange with the customer to control and preserve information of NPI transferred projects.
• Inspection of customer product parts and assemblies through model files using Computer-aided Design (CAD) system.
• Evaluate and identify course of action of Product Change Notification (PCN) and Manufacturing Change Order (MCO).
• Ability to take additional responsibilities of the Manufacturing Engineer depending on the size and complexity of the customer product.

The experience we're looking to add to our team:

• 3-5 years' experience.
• Bachelor's degree Required. Preferably in Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field.
• Extensive customer facing experience.
• Extensive experience working and communicating with product design teams.
• Extensive bill of material experience.
• Experience with PLM system. Preferably agile.
• Experience with ERP systems. Preferably BaaN.
• New product introduction experience.
• High mix engineer to order experience.
• Strong process development skills.
• Experience with electrical assembly.
• Working knowledge of CAD/ SolidWorks.
• Strong MS Office experience.

What you'll receive for the great work you provide:

• Full range of medical benefits, dental, vision
• Life Insurance
• Matching 401K
• PTO
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Employee discounts at local retailers

BO18

Job Category Production EngineeringRelocation: Not eligible

Is Sponsorship Available?

NoFlex is an Equal Opportunity Employer and employment selection decisions are based on merit, qualifications, and abilities. We celebrate diversity and do not discriminate based on: age, race, religion, color, sex, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability, pregnancy status, or any other status protected by law. We're happy to provide reasonable accommodations to those with a disability for assistance in the application process. Please email accessibility@flex.com and we'll discuss your specific situation and next steps (NOTE: this email does not accept or consider resumes or applications. This is only for disability assistance. To be considered for a position at Flex, you must complete the application process first).

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