Mechanical Engineer jobs at Flex in United States, Milpitas

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What a typical day looks like:

• Work as a change agent and drive lean and six sigma activities as defined in the GBE A3.
• Applying and deploying Flex Lean Enterprise Values across the entire organization.
• In charge of eliminating waste and create value by reducing variation in the processes to achieve sustainable results throughout the organization and segment.
• Utilize Continuous Improvement (Kaizen) techniques, initiate process improvements, cycle time reductions, cost reductions and other activities aimed at reducing/eliminating non-value-added activities in the process.
• Create and validate processes/standards based on standard work and BPs
• Identify, Drive and Yokoten Best practices-based Kaizen projects on the accord timelines
• Conduct Industrial Engineering lean and six sigma training and accelerate the proliferation of Lean culture thru out the organization by guiding and facilitating Continues Improvement Lean Deployment.
• Perform assessment of Continuous Improvement Maturity Tracker (CIMT) Operation/Supply chain/Office and drive initiatives to close gaps.
• Agile participate in the selection and executions of lean and six sigma projects.
• Transformation (continuous workshop in 90 days). Facilitate Continues Improvement Transformation activities through Kaizen, workshops, and Small Group Activities.
• Comprehend and use Center point portal as depository to enable data research and cost saving effectiveness
• Achieve Industrial, Lean & 6 sigma training & Certification in order to become subject matter expert in the organization

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

• Typically requires 5+ years of related experience.
• Industrial Engineering Bachelor Degree(or related field) is a must and an MBA is required.
• Demonstrates functional, technical skills as well as customer service attitude (external and internal).
• Teamwork participation to enable project improvement.
• Demonstrates detailed expertise in very complex functional/technical area or broad breadth of knowledge in multiple areas Comprehends the strategic & tactical impact of the function across sites.
• Must be able to guide direct projects and business initiatives.
• Financial, research and statistical skills to resolve complex and conflicting goals.
• Demonstrate Green Certification of at least two discipline (Lean, Six Sigma or Industrial Engineering).

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

• Full range of medical, dental, and vision plans
• Life Insurance
• Short-term and Long-term Disability
• Matching 401(k) Contributions
• Vacation and Paid Sick Time
• Tuition Reimbursement

Reporting to thetherole involves maintaining and improving automation equipment, tooling and applications as required to meet specifications.

What a typical day looks like:

• Designing, developing, implementing, and maintaining control systems in manufacturing equipment.
• Build and design for standardized automation cells and custom automated solutions from scratch for manufacturing.
• Designing, configuring, deploying, and maintaining PLC software and wiring.
• Programming PLC's (Allen Bradley), HMI’s (Ignition), motion controllers, and Vision systems (Cognex) controls for factory automation equipment
• Coordinates project activities with other functional groups such asengineering, operations,and quality to ensure the efficient execution of continuous improvements.

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

• BS Degree (Electrical, Mechanical, Mechatronics) or equivalent experience
• 5+ years’ experience in a similar role.
• Knowledge and ability to research, evaluate, order install, maintain, or upgrade various types of equipment, tools, or tool sets.
• Design of fail-safe electrical circuits using both safety logic controllers and safety-rated relays.
• Proficiency in AutoCAD or SolidWorks to create schematics and/or drawings.
• Proven understanding of BOMs, manufacturability, process design, and improvement methodologies.
• Demonstrated experience in manufacturing expansions and ramp up preferred.
• Experience working with equipment suppliers and new tool bring up is a plus.
• HMI design utilizing Ignition
• PLC programming utilizing Allen Bradley Studio 5000
• Vision system programming utilizing Cognex InSight
• Robotics programming experience (Fanuc) is a plus
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively with internal and external functional teams verbally, in writing, and via presentations.
• Lean or Six Sigma Green/Black belt is a plus

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

• Full range of medical, dental, and vision plans
• Life Insurance
• Short-term and Long-term Disability
• Matching 401(k) Contributions
• Vacation and Paid Sick Time
• Tuition Reimbursement

Equipment Maintenance Engineerlocated inMilpitas, CA.

Reporting to the
Equipment Maintenance Engineerhas two responsibilities. Mechanical: Repairs and maintains machinery and mechanical equipment such as conveyor systems and production machines and equipment.

Electrical: Maintains and troubleshoots in-circuit and functional testers, associated test fixtures, stress chambers and chamber racks to ensure manufacturing test equipment is on-line.

What a typical day looks like:

• Through troubleshooting, identifies machine malfunctions and isolates the failure mechanism.
• Repairs the failure mechanism in the most cost-effective manner.
• Performs preventive maintenance at specified intervals and schedules.
• Performs calibrations and re-qualifications on equipment at specified intervals and schedules.
• Assists process technicians and engineers with the installation and removal of process equipment.
• Researches and implements corrective action reports and process tracking mechanisms.
• Records times and problems in equipment logs.
• Provides daily equipment functioning activity information.
• Sets up standard and special purpose laboratory equipment to test, evaluate and calibrate other instruments and test equipment.
• Disassembles instruments and equipment and inspects components for defects.
• Aligns repairs, replaces, and balances component parts and circuitry.
• Devises formulas to solve problems in measurements and calibrations.
• Assists engineers in formulating test, calibration, repair and evaluation plans and procedures to maintain precision accuracy of measuring, recording, and indicating instruments and equipment.
• May require travel to other Flex sites or equipment vendors' locations.
• Highest level may perform both software and hardware maintenance.

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

• Requires an associate degree in related field, military technical training or equivalent education and training
• 7 years of related quality experience in electronics
• Allocating work to a team of fitters.
• Checking and calibrating instruments to make sure they are accurate.
• Fitting new parts.
• Carrying out quality inspections.
• Acknowledging immediately to equipment breakdowns.
• Fixing faults on site or arranging for replacement machinery or equipment to be installed.
• Keeping production managers informed of progress.
• Organizing teams or unipersonal to make sure that 24-hour cover is available.
• Working on mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic, or computerized systems.
• Complete understanding of the job and applies knowledge and skills to complete a wide range of tasks.

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

• Full range of medical, dental, and vision plans
• Life Insurance
• Short-term and Long-term Disability
• Matching 401(k) Contributions
• Vacation and Paid Sick Time
• Tuition Reimbursement

Thewill be based, reporting toQuality Manager.In this role, you will be maintaining quality engineering programs, standards and improvements within the organization.

What a typical day looks like:

• Develops and initiates standards and methods for inspection, testing and evaluation.
• Devises sampling procedures and designs and develops forms and instructions for recording, evaluating and reporting quality and reliability data.
• Develops and implements methods and procedures for disposition of discrepant material and devises methods to assess cost.
• Directs workers engaged in measuring and testing product and tabulating data concerning materials, product or process quality and reliability.
• Compiles and writes training material and conducts training sessions on quality control activities.
• Holds up Product Engineers and Quality Program Managers with customer interfaces as necessary on quality related issues.
• Assures data availability and integrity for all quality related data. Consolidates and reports quality results.
• Initiates corrective action requests as needed and tracks to satisfactory completion.
• Assists with development and implementation of quality audits.
• In charge of developing, applying, revising and maintaining quality standards for processing materials into partially finished or finished products.
• Designs and implements methods and procedures for inspecting, testing and evaluating the precision and accuracy of products and/or production equipment.
• Explores reports and returned products and recommends corrective action.
• Establishes program to evaluate precision and accuracy of production equipment and testing, measurement and research of equipment and facilities.
• Approves product, process and equipment qualifications.
• Provides liaison to various regulatory bodies.

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

• Typically requires a Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent experience.
• Previous quality engineer experince
• Previous Manufacturing experince
• Automotive industry experince prefer

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

• Full range of medical, dental, and vision plans
• Life Insurance
• Short-term and Long-term Disability
• Matching 401(k) Contributions
• Vacation and Paid Sick Time
• Tuition Reimbursement

Process Development Engineerlocated inMilpitas, CA.

The “
Design, Process and Technology Engineer” reporting to Advanced Engineering Manager will

hold up on mechanical, electrical, and testing of product design for a new and rapidly growing division within Flex. Work in comprehending the product requirements, assembling prototypes for products under development, fixture creation for assembly and test of prototypes. Implementing world class solutions for our customers.

What a typical day looks like:

• Working with a matrixed, cross functional team of technical experts within Flex organization, extending and building new resources/ capabilities to incorporate into the Flex knowledge base.
• Working with a matrixed, cross functional team of technical experts within Flex organization, extending and building new resources/ capabilities to incorporate into the Flex knowledge base.
• Drive toward creative, robust, and effective solutions that meet customer requirements.
• Hold up engineering team with prototyping, product build, bring up, test, documentation, and successful release to manufacturing.
• Contribute with a cross functional team to develop technically robust and effective solutions to a wide variety of design problems.
• Manage design parameters and design tradeoff priorities in close coordination with other team members.
• Help develop best practices, identify equipment, and material needs with members of the team.
• Ability to resolve, define and design the system and subsystems approaches to meet project and program design goals, requirements and schedules.
• Identify standard products and sub-blocks for inclusion into solution proposals.
• Develop key relationships with internal design teams as well subcontractors to plan comprehensive product strategies based on future technologies.
• Strives for improvements and efficiencies in Engineering area.
• Monitors KPIs for engineering processes.
• Maintains up-to-date knowledge of technical development and trends in the field of expertise.

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

• Typically requires a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial , Mechatronics, Mechanical or Electronics .
• Functional knowledge, education background or 3-4 years working experience required.
• Good communication skills and excellent relational skills.
• Demonstrates operations and technical skills and comprehension of functional standards.
• Demonstrates working knowledge of functional concepts and a solid comprehension of policies and procedures.
• Has awareness of the functional impact upon work processes and other functions.

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

• Full range of medical, dental, and vision plans
• Life Insurance
• Short-term and Long-term Disability
• Matching 401(k) Contributions
• Vacation and Paid Sick Time
• Tuition Reimbursement

Mechanical Engineerlocated inCalifornia Milpitas.

Reporting to theMechanical Engineeris responsible for designing, validating, and implementing innovative and cost-effective product solutions of complex scope to support the organization in prototype development through full-scale production.

What a typical day looks like:

• Designing and implementing automation equipment.
• Developing project specifications by studying product design, customer requirements, and performance standards.
• Know and understand the project scope, specifications, and any regulatory requirements that are applicable to the machine being developed.
• Performing detailed mathematical calculations to establish manufacturing and installation standards and specifications.
• Coordinate with and consult automation engineers to design, lay out, detail components on new and existing equipment.
• Work with automation engineers to help debug interactions between mechanical, electrical, and software systems.
• Attend meetings, including project status and review meetings, and acceptance meetings.
• Assessing project requirements and researching to meet those requirements.
• Ensuring a product can be made reliably and will perform consistently in specified operating environments.
• Design of mechanical fixtures, adapters, and custom equipment.
• Testing, evaluating, modifying, and re-testing the designed hardware.
• Writing reports, bill of materials, installation drawings and technical documentation.
• Communicate and interface with engineers, designers, and operations managers.
• Deploying systems at customer facilities and gathering requirements.

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

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or Material science background
• 3 years of experience in a Mechanical Engineering role.
• CMM equipment (Zeiss and OGP), Strain Gauge using Site tester, X-Ray and Micro CT analysis, shadow moiré, and reliability chambers (Halt/Hass chamber, Temp/Humidity chamber, IPX).
• Maintained great collaboration with customers from requests to report discussion
• Write technical reports independently
• Execute reliability and failure analysis tests
• Use CAD software to create useful fixturing for the lab or for customer
• 3D printing parts
• Lead ISO/IEC 17025 2017 certification in the lab
• Maintaining now ISO/IEC 17025 2017 per quality manual
• Create procedures for the Lab Quality Manual for the ISO 17025 certification
• Participate Lab Gemba walks with the team
• Takes care of maintenance and PM of the tools
• Execute Lab Roadmap, Capex equipment acquisition
• Support section for Site Monthly newsletter
• Utilize Six sigma methodologies

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

• Full range of medical, dental, and vision plans
• Life Insurance
• Short-term and Long-term Disability
• Matching 401(k) Contributions
• Vacation and Paid Sick Time
• Tuition Reimbursement

will be based in. The ME will deploy, launch and sustain manufacturing production lines for industrial equipment, machinery, and power equipment. The ME will work on the production floor as needed to ensure our products are produced safely, at the highest quality, delivered on time, and while maximizing

Here is a glimpse of what you’ll do:

• Design and develop mechanical assembly processes for box builds, ensuring efficiency, reliability, and quality.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including design engineering, procurement, and quality assurance, to ensure seamless integration of components and materials.
• Analyze current manufacturing processes and identify areas for improvement to reduce costs, improve quality, and enhance productivity.
• Create and maintain engineering documentation, including test plans, assembly instructions, and process flowcharts.
• Conduct root cause analysis on manufacturing issues and implement corrective actions.
• Train and support production staff on new processes and equipment to ensure adherence to standard operating procedures.
• Oversee the implementation of lean manufacturing principles and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Monitor production performance metrics and report findings to management.
• Write and update work instructions and other documents (e.g. specifications, procedures,…)
• Applies statistical methods to estimate future manufacturing requirements and potential.
• Ensure compliance with safety standards and maintain a safe working environment.

Here is some of what you’ll need (required):

• Requires a bachelor’s degree, military training, equivalent vocational training, or equivalent experience (Mechanical Engineering degree preferred)
• MUST HAVE 1-3 years experience post internship
• Strong understanding of assembly techniques, materials, and manufacturing processes.
• Experience in MSWord, Excel (proficient) and Web based tools such as Frontpage and HTML
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, design drawings and procedure manuals.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence
• Proven experience in a manufacturing environment, particularly in mechanical box build assembly.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, able to work collaboratively across teams.

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

• Full range of medical, dental, and vision plans
• Life Insurance
• Short-term and Long-term Disability
• Matching 401(k) Contributions
• Vacation and Paid Sick Time
• Tuition Reimbursement