Manufacturing Design Engineer, Apple
Softgoods
$133.2-200.6k
+ Employee Stock Purchase Plan
More information about location
Office located in Boulder, CO
Personal technology company
Job no longer available
Personal technology company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$133.2-200.6k
+ Employee Stock Purchase Plan
More information about location
Office located in Boulder, CO
1001+ employees
Company mission
Apple's mission is to bring the best user experience to its customers through its innovative hardware, software, and services.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years experience supporting new product launches from a mechanical, tooling, or product development perspective
- BS or MA in Mechanical Engineering or Industrial Engineering
Desirable
- Experience with mechanical fabricated parts or adhesives, glues, jigs, fixtures, tooling, injection molding, plastics experience is required
- Deep understanding of DOE, GD&T, SPC techniques
- Experience leading suppliers’ technical team in the development and qualification of manufacturing process
- Experience defining & executing mass production qualification requirements
- Willingness to travel internationally to supplier sites
- International experience, particularly in Asia is a plus
- Demonstrated hands-on mechanical ability
- Proven problem solving ability
- Excellent written and verbal interpersonal skills
- Experience with highly cosmetic parts a plus
What the job involves
- In this highly visible role, you will manage selection, implementation, optimization, and scale up of manufacturing processes for our legendary soft goods products
- You will utilize your mechanical engineering experience and work across multi-functional teams in Product Design and Industrial Design to assess product features for manufacturability and recommend capable processes and equipment
- Planning, proposing, and leading experiments to produce timely and accurate analyses used to drive design, development, and supply chain decisions
- Assessing the suitability of a fabrication technology for a given part design
- Planning validation exercises to demonstrate initial feasibility as well as manufacturing capability
- Analyzing results of validation exercises and provide technical recommendations
- Evaluate and identify process opportunities/risks and drive mitigations plans to meet key program targets inclusive of cycle time, labor, space, and equipment
- Reviewing progress of development activities at supplier locations and serve as point of escalation for critical process related issues
- New Product Introduction:
- Acts as lead engineer to drive process development and capability assessment activities, reviewing part design documentation to ensure alignment with process capability
- Assigns specific tasks and work with Apple suppliers to support process development and/or data gathering activities
- Set clear goals for results and provide timely reviews of performance throughout program
- Establish validation procedures to determine acceptance of tooling into development builds as well as mass production
- Supplier Execution:
- Review supplier tool design, process flow, equipment selection, DFM, and DOE proposals
- Identify shortfalls and corrective actions to ensure design compliance
- Work with supplier engineering teams to map out process development exercises, secure resources, and commit to schedules in line with program goals
- Assess supplier readiness to support build events and production ramp
- Identify potential execution issues and provide recommendations to mitigate risk
- Define and review line qualification criteria in collaboration with the supplier to scale up mass production to meet key production metrics
- Review, lead, and assist maintaining product process flow, layout, and cycle time against project goals
Our take
With a market capitalisation that reached $3 trillion in 2022, Apple is the world's most valuable company. A vertically integrated approach and obsessive focus on the user experience have helped to make Apple one of the most successful companies in the world.
Since taking over at Apple, Tim Cook has been carefully curating the company's reputation as a champion of consumer privacy, trying to set the company apart from others that monetise their users' data.
The company even went as far as to introduce sweeping privacy changes which made it difficult to tailor ads to Apple’s 1bn+ iPhone users. This rocked the $400bn digital ads market, seriously harming the revenue of its bigger rivals in the lucrative industry and forcing them to rebuild their ad infrastructure.
Despite this, the company has been shaken by supply chain issues and moved a considerable amount of its manufacturing from China to India, and increased its Vietnam presence. This is because of multi-pronged production disruption in China, the second largest customer market for Apple, and triggered an estimated 10% revenue drop in the first quarter of 2023.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
204% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Everyone has different needs and schedules, and that’s why we offer medical plans that cover both physical and mental healthcare
- In addition, employees have the option to access medical professionals from almost anywhere and get free confidential counselling — virtual or in person
- You could also be eligible for help with fitness-related expenses
- Our medical coverage plans include family-friendly features such as fertility treatments
- Because we know there’s more than one way to bring a new child into your family, we support all kinds of new parents with paid leave and our gradual return-to-work programme
- You also get paid time away if you need to care for an ill family member and free guidance to help you find support for childcare, elderly care, legal referrals and more
- At Apple, we make sure women earn the same as men performing similar work. As part of that effort, your salary history is history — we won’t ask
- Every employee here also has the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder, because all are eligible for stock grants and also a discount when purchasing Apple stock
- To help you prepare for retirement, our pension can help you meet your savings goals. And to help you prepare for the unexpected, you’ll have the security of multiple forms of income protection
- Plan on developing both professionally and personally. Apple University creates classes, seminars and beyond-the-classroom tools that help employees understand Apple’s culture, organisation, values, and role in the world. You can sharpen general business and software skills through online classes
- For more formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, we’ll reimburse you for certain educational expenses, including tuition
- Whether you’re exploring personal pursuits, welcoming a new child or caring for a family member, rest assured that you’ll have paid time away when you need it most
- When you give money to an eligible organisation, we’ll match your donations one-for-one, so your contribution is doubled. And if you choose to donate your time, we’ll contribute US$25 for every hour you volunteer. Whether you donate time or money, Apple will match your contributions up to US$10,000 a year
- Get the world’s best prices on the world’s best products — Apple products. You’ll also get deals on great third-party accessories
- And there are services to help you manage life’s day-to-day tasks: dinner reservations, pet-sitters, shopping, personal travel, financial guidance and more
Company HQ
Cupertino, CA
Leadership
Tim Cook
(CEO, not founder)Joined Apple in 1998 and held various senior roles before being promoted to CEO in 2011. Previously Spent 12 years with IBM, most recently as director of North American Fulfilment, where he led manufacturing and distribution functions for IBM’s Personal Computer Company in North and Latin America
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