Manufacturing Engineer
Your role as a Manufacturing Engineer will be to support and drive improvement to our critical manufacturing functions. We have two sets of customers—our builders, who order parts through us, and our manufacturing partners, who manufacture and assemble these parts—and you'll be consistently working at the interface between the two. At Fictiv, we believe in creating the world's premier platform for hardware manufacturing, and you'll be playing a critical role in making that happen.
In your role as the Manufacturing Engineer, you will be reviewing and analyzing the manufacturability and costs associated with CNC machining submitted by our builders. In this role, you'll also be using your Mechanical Engineering background and knowledge of manufacturing processes in order to determine what design changes may need to be made to our builders' design specifications in order to meet their needs. By developing highly competitive proposals and quotations that meet the requirements called out by our customers, you will be assisting in bringing products to market faster in a wide range of industries (and helping to accelerate Fictiv's growth)
You will report to the Costing and DFM lead.
What You'll Be Doing
- Package review - Study the package provided by Sales to determine scope of work, manufacturing feasibility & Lead time details
- Define best suited manufacturing process, machine selection, cycle time calculations & setup costs
- Generate should cost using in house calculators & Fictiv's software recommendations
- Manufacturing Partners quote scrutiny. To check whether the provided quote is correct in terms of optimized raw material, machining & secondary processes costs
- Negotiate with Manufacturing partners on quotes provided and get the best costs out to ensure a win win situation
- Understand secondary process eg Anodising, Zinc plating, Chemical conversion coatings with respect to their type, class, service class, methods etc
- Preparing RFQ package to Manufacturing Partners referring to capability & capacity plans
- Calculator Generations - Use own machining expertise & understanding of process cost drivers to develop cost calculators
- DFx Feedback - Study the 3D Model, 2D prints to determine the manufacturability of the part & highlight key points that involve a design change recommendation
- Automation Feedback - Provide feedback to Quoting Software team to improve accuracy of automated quoting of our manufacturing services
- Packaging costs - Develop packaging concept & provide the same to Logistics team for generating Shipping costs
- Follow up with Sales for Quoted RFQ's feedback on weekly basis & also provide feedback to Manufacturing partners about quoted RFQ's status
- Work with CFT in evaluating value deals for project management validation, project de risking, quality documentation
- Handle Assembly product structure
- Help clear technical queries during MP Quoting
- Maintain reports for Opportunities quoted won/lost, conversion ratio etc
- Participate in Manufacturing Partners QBR with CFT to address cost issues, conversion ratios etc