Sr. Manufacturing Engineer

The Company: Cognex is the global leader in the exciting and growing field of machine vision. With over $800 million of cash in the bank and no debt, we are a financially strong international company with a culture that maintains the fast paced, creative environment of a startup. Our employees, proudly called “Cognoids,” take their work but not themselves seriously. Our Work Hard, Play Hard, Move Fast culture recognizes our employees for their innovation, perseverance, and hard work in a fun, rewarding, and quirky environment

The Team: The Operations organization at Cognex is responsible for achieving the cost, quality, and delivery requirements of our customers globally. It partners with multiple business units for the design and development of products and throughout active product lifecycles. This position is part of the Sustaining Engineering team, which is a group within the Operations Engineering team.

The Role: This Senior Manufacturing Engineer position is responsible for supporting existing product designs and supply chain. This includes production at suppliers, contract manufacturers, distribution centers and projects to improve manufacturability, optimize costs, and improve quality.

Essential Functions:

Ensure that materials selection and product designs achieve optimal balance of cost, quality, and manufacturability

Investigate quality issues through application of sound problem solving skills in a team environment

Collect production data, analyze, report, take corrective action, and drive continuous improvement

Understanding supplier capabilities to aid design discussions and deliver cost reduction while maintaining quality

Support assembly, test, and inspection methods for products

Perform qualifications to support end of life component replacements

Actively search for cost savings in design, assembly process or components in all products

Ability to travel locally (mostly Asia) to CMs, vendors, or customers. Travel is approximately 20%.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Design new and improve on existing assembly fixtures and processes

Hands on experience in mechanical and/or PCB manufacturing process engineering, optical knowledge is a plus

Knowledge of design for manufacture, assembly techniques, die castings, injection molding, cable assemblies, and surface treatments. Experience with should-cost modeling is a plus.

Proficient in CAD (SolidWorks is a plus)

Use of AI, or other processes to aid in your own day to day work, and the willingness to teach others

High energy and results driven using facts and data

Excellent communicator that can work directly with suppliers, contract manufacturers, and designers located around the world, this will likely include off hours meetings

Demonstrated success in setting challenging goals and achieving them when working on multiple projects

Experience with document control

Minimum education and work experience required:

Bachelor’s Degree in manufacturing, mechanical, or equivalent engineering

5+ years of experience with relevant, high-tech, electronics and electro-mechanical products

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