Senior Lead Engineer, Manufacturing Process

General Overview

Functional Area:  Engineering (ENG)
Career Stream:  New Product Introduction (ENG_NPI)
Job Title:  Senior Lead Engineer, Manufacturing 
Job Code:  MG1-ENG-NPI
Job Level:  Level 09
Direct/Indirect Indicator:  Indirect

Summary

The New Product Engineer role is responsible for designing, developing, deploying and optimizing new
product and processes for manufacturing to achieve quality cost and delivery goals for Celestica and its
customer’s products.

Detailed Description

Perform tasks such as, but not limited to, the following:

• Design, develop, and implement new manufacturing processes to support customer products.
• Identify capital expense and related equipment.
•  Work with facilities and external contractors to add necessary facilities drops and required

changes.

• Provides the necessary engineering support and coordination of prototype build to ensure that

new assemblies are completed on time and on budget.

• Provides feedback to appropriate engineering and support groups to ensure smooth transition

from prototype to production.

•  Reviews and interprets customer specifications.
• Provides engineering expertise for all technical issues related to the customer’s product(s) from

product conception to product obsolescence.

• Works closely with customer on the design of new products.
• Gathers, understands and converts customer data into usable manufacturing information.
•  Verifies that specifications conform to customer, industry and company standards.
• Assists in selecting and programming manufacturing equipment to build product.
•  Assists manufacturing with the first run of product.
• Develops specialized tools to automate and ease assembly/test development.
•  Develops and executes assembly/test strategy for new products including DFx analysis and

feedback.

• Supports the transition of customer’s products to manufacturing and participates with peers to

ensure successful handoffs.

• Identifies and implements opportunities to reduce manufacturing complexity
•  Acts as program manager for the introduction of new processes, new products or new

equipment

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

Engineering Foundation Competencies

• In-depth knowledge and understanding of the design process for systems and printed circuit

boards, subassemblies, racks or other related company products.

•  In-depth knowledge of manufacturing processes and equipment used for systems and printed

circuit boards, subassemblies and racks.

• In-depth knowledge of industry and quality standards and SPC methodologies.
•  In-depth knowledge of materials and components used in the construction of systems and

printed circuit boards and subassemblies.

• Excellent customer contact, negotiation and problem resolution skills.
• Good presentation, database management and computer skills.
• Strong knowledge of statistical process control methods and techniques.
•  Ability to evaluate, diagnose and troubleshoot problems.
• Strong knowledge of IT platforms, database design and programming languages.

Notes

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities of the position.
Employees are held accountable for all duties of the job. Job duties for any function are subject to change
at any time.