Technical Program Manager and Manufacturing Quality Engineer
At Apple in Cupertino, this role combines Technical Program Manager and Manufacturing Quality Engineer duties for next-gen hardware: you lead manufacturing process selection, new product introduction, and supplier execution while building quality plans, metrology methods, and DOE/SPC-driven quality control across Apple's global supplier factories. Requires international travel to supplier sites.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Cupertino
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 1+ years
- Category
- Project management
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- BS in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or Engineering Management
- 1+ years experience supporting new product launches from a mechanical, process engineering, quality planning, quality engineering, or product development perspective
- Experience developing process quality plans, supplier quality audits, and driving corrective actions and failure analysis efforts
- Knowledge of mechanical quality and reliability concepts, supplier management, and general manufacturing operations
- International travel to supplier sites required
Nice to have
- Experience with soft materials (non-wovens, wovens, knits, leather) and inputs (yarns, raw materials); mechanical fabricated parts, adhesives, jigs/fixtures, tooling, injection molding, or plastics ex
- International experience, particularly in Asia
- Proven hands-on mechanical ability and excellent written and verbal communication skills; domestic and international travel
- Experience with highly cosmetic parts
Full description
Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. The people here at Apple don’t just create products — they create the kind of wonder that’s revolutionized entire industries. It’s the diversity of those people and their ideas that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do, from amazing technology to industry-leading environmental efforts. Join Apple, and help us leave the world better than we found it.
In this highly visible role, you will have process (TPM) and quality engineering (MQE) responsibility for next generation Apple products. This will require you to lead selection, implementation & optimization of manufacturing processes and quality planning and deployment.
In the TPM responsibility, you will utilize your Engineering experience and work cross functionally with Product Design Engineering and Industrial Design to assess product features for manufacturability, and recommend capable processes and equipment.
In the MQE responsibility, you work in tandem with Apple's renowned designers to develop measurement & metrology technologies, quality control plans, information systems, and manufacturing methods that achieve industry-leading specifications at massive production scale. We handle a network of supplier factories worldwide, with responsibility for our partners to deliver to bold schedules. Our focus is on elegant execution of extraordinary industrial designs, resulting in products that thrill our customers.
Process Development:
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.
Reviewing progress of development activities at supplier locations and serve as point of escalation for critical process related issues.
New Product Introduction:
Help 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 figure out 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.