SMT Process Engineer - Mid Level
for section headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. The posting includes description (About the role?), responsibilities (What a Day Looks Like), requirements/qualifications (Requirements Qualifications: ...), maybe skills (some listed), benefits (Our Benefits), compensation (Compensation: ...). No schedule info. No pay specifics (just says based on experience). Since Pay section requires actual pay numbers; we should not create Pay unless posting actually states them. It says "Compensation: Compensation is based on work experience, education, and prior work experience in electronics manufacturing." That's not a specific number, it's vague. According to rule: never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g., "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD") and never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. The compensation statement is vague; it's essentially "based on experience". That's placeholder-like. So we should NOT create a Pay section. Benefits: they have specific benefits listed, so include Benefits section. Schedule: none, so omit.
We need headings: About the role (maybe from Description?), Responsibilities (What a Day Looks Like), Requirements (maybe combine Requirements Qualifications?), Qualifications (maybe separate?), Skills (maybe list skills?), Benefits.
We must not repeat job title as heading. The job title is "SMT Process Engineer". Not to be used as heading.
We need to preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include all details from description, responsibilities, requirements, qualifications, skills, benefits.
We need to use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and
for prose.
We need to decide how to split content.
Let's parse sections:
- Description: first paragraph about Spartronics, second paragraph Why Join Us, third paragraph Job Opportunity: SMT Process Engineer Location: Onsite in North Logan, UT. Then description of role: "At Spartronics, the SMT Process Engineer develops or improves manufacturing processes for new or existing products. Performs advanced, long term and complex project management for the development, implementation and maintenance of surface mount and/or through hole printed circuit board assemblies. Applies lean manufacturing principles to improve production quality or decrease manufacturing costs. This role plays a critical part in identifying process improvement opportunities, supporting internal Spartronics teams, and interfacing with external machine shops as needed to ensure quality and efficiency in tooling design and implementation."
That could be About the role.
- What a Day Looks Like: list of duties (sentences separated by periods). Could be Responsibilities.
- Requirements Qualifications: bullet list? Actually it's a paragraph with many items separated by periods. We need to turn into list.
- Preferred Qualifications: list.
- Our Benefits: list.
- Compensation: statement.
We need to avoid filler. Compensation statement is vague; we should not create Pay section. So we may omit compensation entirely? But we must preserve ALL substantive information. If we omit compensation, we lose info. However rule says never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless posting actually states them. It does state compensation but it's vague. The rule says never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g., "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD") and never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. The compensation statement is "Compensation is based on work experience, education, and prior work experience in electronics manufacturing." That's somewhat vague but not exactly placeholder like "commensurate with experience". It's still vague but maybe acceptable? The rule says never create Pay section unless posting actually states them. It does state compensation, albeit vague. I'd lean to include a Pay section with that statement as prose (
). However the rule also says never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text. Is that statement filler? It's not exactly "commensurate with experience" but similar. It says based on work experience, education, and prior work experience. That's still generic. Might be considered filler. Safer to omit Pay section? But then we lose that info. The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." If we omit compensation, we are summarizing away detail (though it's not specific). But it's still substantive? It's a statement about compensation basis. I'd include it as a Pay section with that sentence.
Similarly Schedule: none, so omit.
Now headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay.
We need to avoid duplicate content. Requirements vs Qualifications vs Skills may overlap. We can combine: Requirements (education, experience), Qualifications (maybe preferred qualifications), Skills (specific skills). But we need to follow instruction: use headings only when posting has real specific content for it. We have content for each.
Let's extract:
About the role: description paragraphs (Spartronics overview, Why Join Us, Job Opportunity location, role description). Could be multiple paragraphs.
Responsibilities: What a Day Looks Like list.
Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in electrical, mechanical, or manufacturing engineering. 3 – 5 years related work experience. Strong understanding of engineering practices and procedures regarding electronic components and manufacturing. Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail. Experience with advanced PCB technologies; strong in time and motion measurement of operations Utilize experience/judgment to develop solutions for moderately complex engineering issues. Intermediate level failure analysis and troubleshooting skills. Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Ability to work independently and also in a team environment. Intermediate level computer skills including Microsoft Office and CAD/CAM. Ability to self-manage, organize and prioritize. Ability to function effectively in a team environment Excellent analytical skills using Six Sigma and Lean Principles. Must be U.S. persons within the definition of ITAR, with the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. DoD Security Clearance.?ITAR defines a U.S. person as a U.S. Citizen, U.S. Permanent Resident (i.e., 'Green Card Holder'), Political Asylee, or Refugee.
That's a lot; we can make each as
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Preferred Qualifications (maybe under Qualifications heading): Green/black belt certification. Experience with SolidWorks or similar CAD software. Experience with HSM Express or similar CAM software. 3D Printing experience with Prusa and PrusaSlicer or similar. Experience with inspection equipment and measuring tools - Optical Comparator. Experience with laser etching and laser de panel of flex circuits. Strong DFM and NPI skills.
Skills: maybe we can list specific skills like Lean/Six Sigma tools, training, process documents, etc. But many are already in responsibilities. Could create Skills heading for things like "Create process documents related to specific job functions", "Provide training on Lean/Six Sigma tools", etc. However we might just treat those under Responsibilities.
Better to have: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications (preferred), Benefits, Pay.
We need to ensure we don't create thin sections. Each should have substantive content.
Let's craft:
About the role
At Spartronics, we're not just building products, we build products lives depend on. As an electronic manufacturing services (EMS) provider for the commercial aerospace, defense, medical device, life science, and industrial markets, we work to deliver products of the highest quality and reliability. Our organization provides comprehensive contract manufacturing services, ranging from printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) and subsystem integration to full-box build (high-level assemblies). We also offer value-added services from early-stage engineering support to manufacturing testing, design for excellence and sustaining engineering for the full product lifecycle. With over $500 million in revenue, approximately 1,300 dedicated employees, and manufacturing resources strategically located worldwide, our manufacturing network spans the United States and Vietnam. To learn more about our sites, please visit https://www.spartronics.com/locations.
Why Join Us When you become a part of Spartronics, you're joining a team of dedicated and talented individuals who share a common goal - to win as one. We value talent, innovation, and a hunger for growth. Here, you'll have the opportunity to work with industry leaders in Aerospace & Defense, Medical & Life Science, and Industrial markets where our customers put full trust in us to deliver the most complex, highly regulated products that have to work the first time, every time.
Job Opportunity: SMT Process Engineer Location: Onsite in North Logan, UT At Spartronics, the SMT Process Engineer develops or improves manufacturing processes for new or existing products. Performs advanced, long term and complex project management for the development, implementation and maintenance of surface mount and/or through hole printed circuit board assemblies. Applies lean manufacturing principles to improve production quality or decrease manufacturing costs. This role plays a critical part in identifying process improvement opportunities, supporting internal Spartronics teams, and interfacing with external machine shops as needed to ensure quality and efficiency in tooling design and implementation.
That's about the role.
Responsibilities
- Develop, analyze and improve processes to increase efficiency of production
- Analyze root cause, generate reports and implement corrective or preventative actions
- Preview, introduce and review prototype and provide feedback to customer to increase manufacturability and efficiencies
- Investigate, establish and implement requirements for equipment tooling, materials, and methods of manufacturing including make or buy decisions and facility layout as required for new or revised products from pilots through normal production
- Interface with appropriate internal department personnel to ensure process integrity
- Prepare and rework labor cost estimate and manufacturing cost reduction plans
- Monitor process improvement data including flow, efficiency, and layout
- Plan and schedule maintenance and calibrations on production equipment
- Plan and execute studies aimed at enhancing equipment efficiency in terms of quality, availability, and throughput
- Provide training and support to manufacturing operations, resolving process-related issues and ensuring stable optimization
- Collaborate with cross functional teams to develop, enhance and implement, robust tooling and process solutions
- Provide training on Lean/Six Sigma tools and methodologies to build a continuous improvement mindset across the organization
- Create process documents related to specific job functions
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical, mechanical, or manufacturing engineering
- 3 – 5 years related work experience
- Strong understanding of engineering practices and procedures regarding electronic components and manufacturing
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
- Experience with advanced PCB technologies; strong in time and motion measurement of operations
- Utilize experience/judgment to develop solutions for moderately complex engineering issues
- Intermediate level failure analysis and troubleshooting skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to work independently and also in a team environment
- Intermediate level computer skills including Microsoft Office and CAD/CAM
- Ability to self-manage, organize and prioritize
- Ability to function effectively in a team environment
- Excellent analytical skills using Six Sigma and Lean Principles
- Must be U.S. persons within the definition of ITAR, with the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. DoD Security Clearance (U.S. Citizen, U.S. Permanent Resident, Political Asylee, or Refugee)
Qualifications
- Green/black belt certification
- Experience with SolidWorks or similar CAD software
- Experience with HSM Express or similar CAM software
- 3D Printing experience with Prusa and PrusaSlic
for prose. We need to decide how to split content. Let's parse sections: - Description: first paragraph about Spartronics, second paragraph Why Join Us, third paragraph Job Opportunity: SMT Process Engineer Location: Onsite in North Logan, UT. Then description of role: "At Spartronics, the SMT Process Engineer develops or improves manufacturing processes for new or existing products. Performs advanced, long term and complex project management for the development, implementation and maintenance of surface mount and/or through hole printed circuit board assemblies. Applies lean manufacturing principles to improve production quality or decrease manufacturing costs. This role plays a critical part in identifying process improvement opportunities, supporting internal Spartronics teams, and interfacing with external machine shops as needed to ensure quality and efficiency in tooling design and implementation." That could be About the role. - What a Day Looks Like: list of duties (sentences separated by periods). Could be Responsibilities. - Requirements Qualifications: bullet list? Actually it's a paragraph with many items separated by periods. We need to turn into list. - Preferred Qualifications: list. - Our Benefits: list. - Compensation: statement. We need to avoid filler. Compensation statement is vague; we should not create Pay section. So we may omit compensation entirely? But we must preserve ALL substantive information. If we omit compensation, we lose info. However rule says never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless posting actually states them. It does state compensation but it's vague. The rule says never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g., "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD") and never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. The compensation statement is "Compensation is based on work experience, education, and prior work experience in electronics manufacturing." That's somewhat vague but not exactly placeholder like "commensurate with experience". It's still vague but maybe acceptable? The rule says never create Pay section unless posting actually states them. It does state compensation, albeit vague. I'd lean to include a Pay section with that statement as prose (
). However the rule also says never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text. Is that statement filler? It's not exactly "commensurate with experience" but similar. It says based on work experience, education, and prior work experience. That's still generic. Might be considered filler. Safer to omit Pay section? But then we lose that info. The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." If we omit compensation, we are summarizing away detail (though it's not specific). But it's still substantive? It's a statement about compensation basis. I'd include it as a Pay section with that sentence. Similarly Schedule: none, so omit. Now headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay. We need to avoid duplicate content. Requirements vs Qualifications vs Skills may overlap. We can combine: Requirements (education, experience), Qualifications (maybe preferred qualifications), Skills (specific skills). But we need to follow instruction: use headings only when posting has real specific content for it. We have content for each. Let's extract: About the role: description paragraphs (Spartronics overview, Why Join Us, Job Opportunity location, role description). Could be multiple paragraphs. Responsibilities: What a Day Looks Like list. Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in electrical, mechanical, or manufacturing engineering. 3 – 5 years related work experience. Strong understanding of engineering practices and procedures regarding electronic components and manufacturing. Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail. Experience with advanced PCB technologies; strong in time and motion measurement of operations Utilize experience/judgment to develop solutions for moderately complex engineering issues. Intermediate level failure analysis and troubleshooting skills. Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Ability to work independently and also in a team environment. Intermediate level computer skills including Microsoft Office and CAD/CAM. Ability to self-manage, organize and prioritize. Ability to function effectively in a team environment Excellent analytical skills using Six Sigma and Lean Principles. Must be U.S. persons within the definition of ITAR, with the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. DoD Security Clearance.?ITAR defines a U.S. person as a U.S. Citizen, U.S. Permanent Resident (i.e., 'Green Card Holder'), Political Asylee, or Refugee. That's a lot; we can make each as
About the role
At Spartronics, we're not just building products, we build products lives depend on. As an electronic manufacturing services (EMS) provider for the commercial aerospace, defense, medical device, life science, and industrial markets, we work to deliver products of the highest quality and reliability. Our organization provides comprehensive contract manufacturing services, ranging from printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) and subsystem integration to full-box build (high-level assemblies). We also offer value-added services from early-stage engineering support to manufacturing testing, design for excellence and sustaining engineering for the full product lifecycle. With over $500 million in revenue, approximately 1,300 dedicated employees, and manufacturing resources strategically located worldwide, our manufacturing network spans the United States and Vietnam. To learn more about our sites, please visit https://www.spartronics.com/locations.
Why Join Us When you become a part of Spartronics, you're joining a team of dedicated and talented individuals who share a common goal - to win as one. We value talent, innovation, and a hunger for growth. Here, you'll have the opportunity to work with industry leaders in Aerospace & Defense, Medical & Life Science, and Industrial markets where our customers put full trust in us to deliver the most complex, highly regulated products that have to work the first time, every time.
Job Opportunity: SMT Process Engineer Location: Onsite in North Logan, UT At Spartronics, the SMT Process Engineer develops or improves manufacturing processes for new or existing products. Performs advanced, long term and complex project management for the development, implementation and maintenance of surface mount and/or through hole printed circuit board assemblies. Applies lean manufacturing principles to improve production quality or decrease manufacturing costs. This role plays a critical part in identifying process improvement opportunities, supporting internal Spartronics teams, and interfacing with external machine shops as needed to ensure quality and efficiency in tooling design and implementation.
That's about the role.Responsibilities
- Develop, analyze and improve processes to increase efficiency of production
- Analyze root cause, generate reports and implement corrective or preventative actions
- Preview, introduce and review prototype and provide feedback to customer to increase manufacturability and efficiencies
- Investigate, establish and implement requirements for equipment tooling, materials, and methods of manufacturing including make or buy decisions and facility layout as required for new or revised products from pilots through normal production
- Interface with appropriate internal department personnel to ensure process integrity
- Prepare and rework labor cost estimate and manufacturing cost reduction plans
- Monitor process improvement data including flow, efficiency, and layout
- Plan and schedule maintenance and calibrations on production equipment
- Plan and execute studies aimed at enhancing equipment efficiency in terms of quality, availability, and throughput
- Provide training and support to manufacturing operations, resolving process-related issues and ensuring stable optimization
- Collaborate with cross functional teams to develop, enhance and implement, robust tooling and process solutions
- Provide training on Lean/Six Sigma tools and methodologies to build a continuous improvement mindset across the organization
- Create process documents related to specific job functions
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical, mechanical, or manufacturing engineering
- 3 – 5 years related work experience
- Strong understanding of engineering practices and procedures regarding electronic components and manufacturing
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
- Experience with advanced PCB technologies; strong in time and motion measurement of operations
- Utilize experience/judgment to develop solutions for moderately complex engineering issues
- Intermediate level failure analysis and troubleshooting skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to work independently and also in a team environment
- Intermediate level computer skills including Microsoft Office and CAD/CAM
- Ability to self-manage, organize and prioritize
- Ability to function effectively in a team environment
- Excellent analytical skills using Six Sigma and Lean Principles
- Must be U.S. persons within the definition of ITAR, with the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. DoD Security Clearance (U.S. Citizen, U.S. Permanent Resident, Political Asylee, or Refugee)
Qualifications
- Green/black belt certification
- Experience with SolidWorks or similar CAD software
- Experience with HSM Express or similar CAM software
- 3D Printing experience with Prusa and PrusaSlic