Manufacturing Test Engineering Manager (Chonburi-Based)

Description -

Job Summary:

• This role involves designing, developing, and implementing cost-effective test equipment for HP’s audio and video conferencing products.
• Responsibilities include creating hardware and software for test equipment throughout the product's life cycle, from introduction (NPI) to end of service (EOS).
• Tasks involve reviewing product requirements, determining design approaches, writing software, analyzing equipment parameters, conducting tests, and evaluating results.
• The position also plans labor, schedules, and necessary equipment, selects components based on specifications, verifies product functionality, troubleshoots issues, reviews vendor capabilities, and coordinates with contract manufacturers and design teams to meet business goals.

Responsibilities:

• Develop video, acoustical, and electrical test systems for new products within a formal product development framework.
• Initiate and carry out Test Capacity Planning as well as Budgeting Planning for test equipment, including spare parts and maintenance.
• Collaborate with vendors, machine manufacturers, and suppliers to create and produce testing equipment.
• Oversee the procurement process, from Request for Quotation (RFQ) to Purchase Requisition (PR), Purchase Order (PO), delivery, and payment.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams such as product design engineering, Hardware Engineering (HW), Electrical Engineering (EE), Mechanical Engineering (ME), Software Engineering (SW), Hardware Quality Assurance (HQA), Software Quality Assurance (SQA), Product Management (PM), and Program Manager Organization (PMO) to establish manufacturing test requirements encompassing product configuration and hardware/software functionalities.
• Coordinate directly with product design engineering teams, as well as Hardware Engineering team/HW, Electrical Engineering/EE, Mechanical Engineering/ME and Software Engineering team/SW, Audio Engineering, and Camera Engineering in the design and development of new products.
• Engage with product management, inventory, and logistics teams to support customer needs in terms of product system configuration changes, verification, and testing bundled product systems.
• Partner with Product Engineering (PE), Supplier Quality Engineering (SQE) under HP Supply Chain Organization (SCO), Contract Manufacturer (CM), Original Design Manufacturer (ODM), and Joint Development Manufacturer (JDM) teams to support and drive the manufacturing process, including product testing and quality concerns.
• Monitor, audit, and improve manufacturing performance at the factory, reporting valid information to the operations management team.
• The duties will entail designing and debugging both digital and analog systems and performing hardware engineering work in product design, analysis, debugging, or manufacturing, including third-party design support.
• Design, develop, modify, and implement cost-effective methods for testing and troubleshooting audio and video systems and equipment.
• Execute design trade-offs, schematic entry, part selection, BOM generation, specification drafting, test procedures, debugging, testing, design reviews, and Design Validation Testing of various video and audio systems.
• Develop test infrastructure, networking systems, DHCP servers, HTTP/WEB servers, FTP servers, NAS, NFS, etc. Install, set up, and maintain the TLS/SSL Key Certificate network system and its infrastructure.
• Verify analog and logic circuit functions, collaborate on detailed electrical and physical design, perform simulations, conduct design reviews and laboratory tests on new and existing Test Systems.
• Contribute to and advance all aspects of electrical design projects, including prototypes and mass production of audio and video systems. Innovate creative solutions to technical challenges related to this function.
• Take part in periodic design reviews and pilot builds. Document intellectual property developments.
• Collaborate with Mechanical and Hardware engineers to incorporate testability into new product designs and develop fixtures and custom PCBs to aid in automated testing.
• Monitor production and repair processes, performing failure analysis and troubleshooting RF, digital, and analog product yield problems down to the component level. Guide the failure analysis process and recommend subsequent steps. Actively engage in technical process improvement activities.
• Demonstrate strong accountability for completing assigned tasks and deliverables on time and effectively contribute to team planning.
• Encourage frequent communication within the team and throughout the organization to ensure dissemination of significant information and lessons learned.
• Participate in PCB Lay-Out Design, including placement and routing planning from scratch, multilayer board construction (layer stack-up) definition, generation of new library components, Design for Manufacturability, and creating manufacturing documentation and specifications for PCBs.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in engineering. Electrical, Electronics, Mechatronics.
• 10+ years of experience in test development, manufacturing process, project management, procurement process, hands on experience with Engineering Change (EC) processes, Bill of Materials/BOM structure, new product introduction processes.
• Experience in Schematic diagram, PCB Layout and New Product Development.
• Experience in developing video product, voice product, camera product and test equipment methodologies for manufacturing test.
• Experience in TCP/IP networking, digital and analog, video, audio, camera and telephony protocols.
• Experience in wireless product development, Bluetooth, WIFI and DECT.
• Experience in developing Oracle VM, Linux OS for the test infrastructure, networking system, DHCP server, HTTP/WEB server, FTP server, Network Attached Storage/NAS system, Network File System/NFS system, etc. for product testing.
• Experience using Subversion/SVN for saving of software.
• Experience using OPENSSL for the TLS certificate testing.
• Experience in product troubleshooting, tester troubleshooting, driving the failure analysis.
• Experience using ERP applications such SAP, Agile, Confluence, Oracle.
• Understanding DSP operations and principles with experience in dealing with voice and/ or audio signal processing techniques.
• Strong knowledge of manufacturing files and documentation generation.
• Strong knowledge of electrical engineering principles and design.
• Strong software/firmware development skills, embedded systems programming to interface with smart instruments and integrating multiple technologies to enable test automation.
• Strong knowledge in NI’s hardware and software both LabVIEW and Teststand.
• Strong knowledge of test software platform (C++, Python, etc.).
• Must have hands on laboratory experience (test, optimize, verify performance of designs and their components).
• Strong knowledge of Statistical Software such Minitab or JMP for data analysis and experience in process management, utilizing six-sigma tools, statistical tools, data interpretation.
• Strong knowledge of Software such OrCAD, Cadence, Altium or Mentor graphics and electrical simulation software.
• Proficient with MATLAB or equivalent mathematical simulator.
• 90% English Spoken and Written.
• Strong knowledge of MS Office.

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Job -

Engineering

Schedule -

Full time

Shift -

No shift premium (Thailand)

Travel -

75%

Relocation -

No

Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO) - 

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