The Role
Join the NPI engineering team to qualify and bring complex cable assemblies for the V93000 tester into outsourced production. Manage supplier qualification, quality, reliability, product changes, and preventive measures. Drive manufacturing process optimization, cost reduction, and collaborate cross-functionally with R&D, supply chain, marketing, global support teams and suppliers.
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Job Summary & Responsibilities
- Work in the New Product Introduction (NPI) engineering team which drives Advantest towards operational excellence in a fully outsourced manufacturing environment
- Brings new complex cable assemblies of the V93000 IC tester (with focus on interconnect parts, customized connectors and spring contact pins) into production on time
- Assures manufacturing, quality and reliability of technically challenging complex cable assembly products throughout the outsourced supply chain
- Develops, maintains and shares expertise of complex cable assembly product design of the V93000 within Advantest including advice to peers and management
- Selects supplier and runs supplier qualification through potential analysis and process audits to constantly fulfill customer and business requirements
- Manage quality, product changes and technical supply chain processes of products to constantly fulfill customer and business requirements
- Implementation of preventive quality and approval measures at external suppliers
- Aspects to further consider are manufacturing process optimization, cost reduction and quality improvement initiatives to drive quality, cost, and supply metrics towards defined goals
- Collaborates closely and x-functionally with R&D, Supply Chain and Product marketing and global support teams as well as suppliers in a very international environment
- Bachelor/Master degree in electronic engineering or equivalent
- Knowledge of connectors, cables and its failure mechanism
- Broad experience in cable manufacturing processes
- External auditor experience
- Flexible and innovative mindset with analytical problem solving skills,
- Strong ownership in failure identification (data analysis to identify HW errors, electronic cable measurements, debugging cable assemblies)
- Pro-active mindset with a focused ambition to solve problems
- Ability to define schedules and keep timelines
- Good Communication skills and team player in cross-functional and cross-company environment both in English and German
- Willing to travel 10-20% of time
Skills Required
- Bachelor or Master degree in electronic engineering or equivalent
- Knowledge of connectors, cables and failure mechanisms
- Broad experience in cable manufacturing processes
- External auditor experience
- Analytical problem solving skills and flexible, innovative mindset
- Strong ownership in failure identification, data analysis, electronic cable measurements and debugging cable assemblies
- Pro-active mindset with ambition to solve problems
- Ability to define schedules and keep timelines
- Good communication skills and team player in cross-functional and cross-company environment in English and German
- Willingness to travel 10-20% of time
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The Company
What We Do
For over a half-century, Advantest has been designing innovative electronic measuring equipment and semiconductor test systems essential to the development and manufacture of advanced computer and telecommunications products. On April 1, 2012, Advantest completed its integration of Verigy Ltd. Additional Information about Advantest can be found at www.advantest.com.
