PCB Dfx Engineering Lead

PCB DFx Engineering Lead | Lockheed Martin

Are you a highly motivated and technically competent engineer interested in leading our Printed Circuit Card Design for Manufacturability, Test, and Fabrication efforts? Are you interested in working with an Engineering and Manufacturing team developing and assembling challenging board designs for space radar/RF applications from concept to prototype to production? Does working in partnership with our in-house SMT line and test facilities for rapid technology development sound exciting? If so, we offer a great opportunity for you as our PCB DFx Engineering Lead. We have the corporate investment, infrastructure, subject matter experts, and strategic focus to enable you to be successful.

The PCB DFx Engineering Lead will be an onsite position at our Severn, MD location. This individual will be responsible for design review of circuit card designs, procurement and support during manufacturing and test efforts. The PCB DFx Lead tracks all PCB layout efforts, works closely with Engineering and Vendors to develop board stackups, understand which board houses can fabricate based on technical capabilities, ensures documentation packages are reviewed and complete for design for manufacturability, fabrication and test, tracks and resolves technical questions from fabrication houses

Primary Responsibilities:

• Reviews new PCB designs for manufacturability, test, reliability, and fabrication.
• Reviews fabrication packages for completeness and accuracy.
• Initiates communications with PCB fabrication vendors for design support and quoting.
• Tracks incoming board acceptance, On-time-delivery (OTD) metrics, and general capabilities per vendor
• Addresses vendor questions directly, or after engaging the design engineer if necessary.
• Enforces company configuration management and archival rules, in regards to eCAD designs.
• Establishes and maintains component libraries.
• Creates components and reviews/verifies components created by other team members.
• Updates component creation processes and approval workflows. Trains PCB designers and engineers in these processes.
• Works closely with our In-house manufacturing on best component footprint creation practices for our SMT process.
• Works closely with project managers and/or division production manager to track all PCB tasking, prioritize work based on schedule requirements and report on circuit card design and fabrication schedules.

Desired skills:

• Familiarity with electronics assembly processes
• Experience with a quality management system such as AS9100
• Prior experience working with space applications
• Experience with environmental and reliability testing from shock and vibration testing to thermal/vacuum testing
• Experience with Failure Review Boards and Manufacturing Review Boards
• Active secret security clearance

This position requires a government security clearance, you must be a US Citizen for consideration.