Manufacturing Engineer

Manufacturing & Process Development Engineer

At TE, you will unleash your potential working with people from diverse backgrounds and industries to create a safer, sustainable and more connected world.

Why You Should Join

TE Connectivity's Manufacturing and Process Development Engineering Teams significantly impact LEANPD driven new product development projects, driving for excellence in existing manufacturing technologies and methods and striving to implement new manufacturing technologies to provide improved process and tolerance control. They act as the binding element between product development and manufacturing engineering, ensuring the effectiveness and efficiency of this critical interface. They support Product Development in the optimization of designs and piece parts for manufacturability by realizing sample tooling/products/prototypes. They also design, develop, and qualify tooling and processes to meet TE quality and production standards, document all processes and tooling in applicable TE systems, support supply chain to verify supplier compliance and capability, initiate and implement programs to continuously improve quality, cost and cycle time and adhere to all appropriate specifications, regulatory requirements and customer requirements.

Your Main Tasks

• Responsible for 1 or more assembly processes assigned 1 or more projects
• Define quality controls needed to assure product quality if not possible by process inputs.
• Perform tolerance calculation activities (with Product Eng) to identify and correct product dimensions and tolerances according to process limitations.
• Develop the PFMEA for the assigned assembly processes within the projects.
• Actively participate in PFMEA activities of existing processes and is responsible to provide expertise in the owned processes.
• Plan and execute process development activities according to the Machine Readiness Level (MRL) results in the project lifetime, if part of a Project Management Team.
• Participate in design reviews with the suppliers. Extreme focus on the processes, process quality and process deliverables (MSA, Cmk etc.).
• Demonstrated focus in correct budget execution on the projects where is involved.
• Define process settings for the processes under development, supported by process specialists if needed.
• Responsible for creation and update of Process Specifications document, of the Star Point processes
• Define process and machine requirements for the specific assigned assembly processes that will be inputs for Technical Specification Booklet for the project
• Build standard work instructions (SWI) to be able to produce and set-up the assembly processes.
• Responsible for inputs for the process failure catalogue improvement.
• Responsible for full process validation, ensuring the deliverables of MSA (Type I, II and III), Cmk (and cpk), process parameters, etc.
• Ensure all Key Process Indicators (KPI's) inside targets defined in TSB and Plant KPI's, until process release for serial production, for new processes developed.
• Owner of Scrap and Quality KPIs
• Ownership of Process Shop equipment, for the Star Point processes
• Actively participate in Internal Training Academy, with knowledge sharing about technical and procedure topics.
• Critical mindset in component evaluation: aware on evaluating if the components are meeting the process requirements (dimensional, material and functional). Work with VSE engineer to inform suppliers.
• Focus mindset on problem solving

Your Ideal Background

• Bachelor or Master of Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or comparative
• 1 year as engineering automotive, preferably process engineering or manufacturing engineering of electronic or electromechanical components
• Good knowledge of statistics and methodical proceeding (Six Sigma or Red X)
• Preferably knowledge automotive standards (APQP, TS16949)
• Strong ability to work independently and for teamwork
• Strong engagement, flexibility and resilience, "hands on"
• Good knowledge of standards MS applications (Word, Excel, MS Project)
• Strong in communication
• English at business level
• Open to new ideas and innovative. Creative is a plus.

About TE Connectivity

TE Connectivity plc (NYSE: TEL) is a global industrial technology leader creating a safer, sustainable, productive, and connected future. As a trusted innovation partner, our broad range of connectivity and sensor solutions enable the distribution of power, signal and data to advance next-generation transportation, energy networks, automated factories, data centers enabling artificial intelligence, and more.

Our more than 90,000 employees, including 10,000 engineers, work alongside customers in approximately 130 countries. In a world that is racing ahead, TE ensures that EVERY CONNECTION COUNTS.

What TE Connectivity Offers

• Unlimited job contract opportunity
• Collaborative and friendly work environment
• Extensive training and career growth opportunities
• Private medical healthcare package
• Employee referral bonus
• Other location-dependent benefits

Important Notice Regarding Recruitment Fraud

TE Connectivity has become aware of fraudulent recruitment activities being conducted by individuals or organizations falsely claiming to represent TE Connectivity. Please be advised that TE Connectivity never requests payment or fees from job applicants at any stage of the recruitment process. All legitimate job openings are posted exclusively on our official careers website at te.com/careers, and all email communications from our recruitment team will come only from actual email addresses ending in @te.com. If you receive any suspicious communications, we strongly advise you not to engage or provide any personal information, and to report the incident to your local authorities.

Across our global sites and business units, we put together packages of benefits that are either supported by TE itself or provided by external service providers. In principle, the benefits offered can vary from site to site.

Job Locations: Evora, Évora _ Portugal

Posting City: Evora

Travel Required: Less than 10%

Requisition ID: 145067

Workplace Type: Onsite

External Careers Page: Engineering & Technology