Manufacturing Engineer

Manufacturing Engineer

This role has been designed as 'Hybrid' with an expectation that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today's complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what's next. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.

Partners with R&D and New Product Introduction (NPI) Supply Chain groups to successfully introduce new products into world-wide production. Product Engineers interface with R&D, factory process engineering, Test Engineering and reliability engineering to solve product quality or yield problems. Responsible to sustain products through cost reductions seeking yield improvements. Analyzes samples of defective units/sub-assemblies, reports the results to the appropriate design engineering, manufacturing engineering, test engineering and quality engineering team(s) as well as to the manufacturing group or area and/or vendor where the issue occurred, and recommends or implements changes to the product or process as applicable.

Contributions include applying developed subject matter expertise to solve common and sometimes complex technical problems and recommending alternatives where necessary. Might act as project lead and provide assistance to lower level professionals. Exercises independent judgment and consults with others to determine best method for accomplishing work and achieving objectives.

Join us as a sr. product packaging engineer! Work with suppliers and design teams to innovate for the future including elimination of unnecessary plastic, reduction of packaging volumes, and other qualification initiatives required for environmentally friendly packaging design. Review and approve packaging designs including initial concept, prototype design and verification testing of new solutions that support reduction of waste and CO2 emissions.

What you'll do:

• Assess, define, design and qualify packaging solutions for all our products.
• Review new product mechanical/electrical designs and create packaging designs, material strategy, common part numbers and special requirements including assessment of shock, vibration, and drop performance.
• Assess and incorporate changes/plans to adapt packaging to the manufacturing process.
• Work with 3rd party suppliers or factories in packaging design efforts.
• Create test-plans and test cases/scenarios related to packaging performance including shock, drop and vibration or other tests required by standards.
• Develop packaging design solutions for sustainability that increase the use of eco-friendly materials; also assure compliance with country emerging requirements to avoid disruption in production or shipments:
• Develop qualification plans for alternate materials in new designs.
• Review and support compliance requirements; communicate design status and compliance issues.
• Review and make changes to packaging designs to permit more cost effective transportation using logistics services suppliers:
• Track, respond and correct packaging quality process and packaging part related quality issues identified by customers, factories or internal development and compliance teams:
• Develop and maintain ISO quality process documents defining overall responsibilities and process flow
• Review and respond to issues from factory production sites to assure ease of processing through the assembly and pack-out process.
• Participate as a member of the packaging commodity team and help provide tactical and strategic direction for designs and materials used in packaging:
• Perform routine site visits at remote packaging suppliers
• Provide periodic supplier scorecard input for packaging suppliers

What you need to bring:

Minimum Qualifications:

This position requires at least a BE/B.Tech. in Mechanical or Packaging engineering and a good understanding of new product development related to packaging. 6 years in the industry desired.

Preferred Qualifications:

Preferred background is a masters or bachelors in both mechanical and packaging engineering. 10 years supporting similar class products desired.

Other Information:

Occasional travel to packaging suppliers, our factory sites or industry tradeshows

Additional Skills:

Accountability, Action Planning, Active Learning, Active Listening, Agile Methodology, Agile Scrum Development, Analytical Thinking, Bias, Coaching, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Cross-Functional Teamwork, Data Analysis Management, Data Collection Management, Data Controls, Design, Design Thinking, Empathy, Follow-Through, Group Problem Solving, Growth Mindset, Intellectual Curiosity, Long Term Planning, Managing Ambiguity

What We Can Offer You:

Health & Wellbeing

We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.

Personal & Professional Development

We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.

Unconditional Inclusion

We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.