Manager, Process Engineering - Automotive Manufacturing

About the role

Flex is the diversified manufacturing partner of choice that helps market-leading brands design, build and deliver innovative products that improve the world. A career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference and invest in your growth in a respectful, inclusive, and collaborative environment. If you are excited about a role but don't meet every bullet point, we encourage you to apply and join us to create the extraordinary.

Reason for opening: Newly-created, full-time position.

Job ID: JT05 AA01 MS14 CC11

Responsibilities

General Purpose: Responsible for leading and developing a team of process engineers and technicians responsible for SMT manufacturing processes and continuous improvement. Provides technical and organizational leadership to establish and improve manufacturing process capabilities, increase capacity and throughput, reduce cost, improve quality and reliability, and support successful introduction of new products. Partners closely with Operations, Quality, Product Engineering, NPI, Supply Chain, Maintenance, and other functional teams to ensure manufacturing processes meet customer, quality, delivery, cost, and capacity requirements.

• Lead, coach, develop, and manage a team of process engineers and technicians supporting SMT manufacturing, including board printing, SPI, pick and place, reflow, AOI, X-ray, and other back-end operations, excluding Box Assembly.
• Establish clear goals, priorities, performance expectations, and development plans for engineering team members.
• Provide regular coaching, feedback, performance management, and career development.
• Establish, maintain, and continuously improve process capabilities to achieve required levels of quality, reliability, throughput, capacity, and cost.
• Develop and maintain process documentation, including work instructions, PFMEA, Control Plans, process specifications, and other applicable manufacturing documentation.
• Lead engineering efforts to identify and eliminate process variation, defects, scrap, rework, downtime, and other sources of manufacturing inefficiency.
• Use data-driven problem-solving and appropriate engineering methodologies, including statistical analysis, SPC, DOE, root-cause analysis, and structured corrective action, to resolve complex manufacturing issues.
• Develop and maintain appropriate engineering and manufacturing performance metrics. OEE, scrap, and yield to name a few.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement, accountability, collaboration, problem solving, and ownership within the engineering organization.
• Identify opportunities to improve engineering processes, tools, standards, and best practices and share lessons learned across the organization.
• Ensure engineering activities comply with applicable safety, environmental, quality-system, regulatory, customer, and company requirements.
• Build effective relationships with internal and external customers, suppliers, equipment manufacturers, and other technical partners as required.
• Communicate engineering priorities, project status, risks, resource requirements, and recommendations effectively to site and senior leadership.
• Implement appropriate HR strategies and actions to recruit, retain, develop, and motivate a qualified and high-performing engineering workforce.

Requirements

Requires a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or a related technical field, or equivalent experience and training. A Master's or MBA degree is a plus but not required. Typically requires 7 years of engineering experience, including experience leading or supervising engineering personnel. Experience in high-volume electronics manufacturing and SMT processes is strongly preferred.