Senior Product Engineer

A renowned manufacturing company in the automotive industry in Penang is looking for a Senior Product Engineer. This is a role for a leader who is experienced in product development until product end of life (EOL).

About the Senior Product Engineer Role:
In this key position, the Senior Product Engineer takes charge as a product owner and to monitor the product first pass yield performance and drive the engineering changes. You will also be the key driver for solving product quality issues as well as product cost down initiatives.

Key Responsibilities:

• Coordinate, address and solve all product technical issues arise from manufacturing environment until product end of life (EOL)
• Acquire new product know-how from development centre during development phase and transfer to plant during the industrialisation phase
• Early development involvement in new product development including simultaneous engineering work as well as sample evaluation in design location to share plant experiences as lesson learned to prevent repeated issues in various project milestone which would impact SOP
• Being the Task Force leader and have full authority to assign development and plant resources in Task Force Team to solve critical plant product related issues
• Lead and conduct technical training to production line debug technicians/engineers
• Understand new product concept and specification
• Analyse issues of the respective products
• Troubleshooting skill transfer applicable to new products
• Coaching during issue investigation to enhance analysis skills and issue pattern recognition
• Be responsible for the product first pass yield (FPY) performance and drive activities to fulfil the yield target set. Monitor product (test results) and data from FA and Repair stations and define actions as required
• Analyse and investigate FOR from production lines, identify root-cause or issue owner and follow-up measures to eliminate line FOR issues
• Provide technical support to QMM in Failure Analysis (FA) including 0km and field return analysis. In case of concept failures act as an interface to the design teams (e.g. in Hildesheim) for design related matters in re-solving the issue
• Work with development team to define diagnostic tools suitable for failure analysis in production as well as customer return units
• Sharing and exchange of the product related information, technical know-how and experience of transfer projects within plant technical teams, to strengthen the product know-how competencies in plant operation team
• Be key driver in problem solving on quality issues encountered in final assembly operations which include PDI, 0 km defects as well as field failures
• Owner of the Change Board for engineering changes to be released and introduced in the product during manufacturing phase (not customer interface)
• Be responsible for and drive product cost down project in plant meeting stakeholder requirement
• Support in preparation of technical presentation material to management and customer. Cooperate with other relevant departments in plant, CM and Bosch to meet section goals and objectives. Provide support in HW design, engineering change, 8D reports related to plant
• Work closely and early involvement with plant in-house sample build group in fabrication and testing of samples as well as performing sample evaluation
• Be involved in line station buy-off and line release to ensure readiness for manufacturing
• Develop, define and/or provide tools for data analysis for product issues and monitoring. Be the expert on data query and statistical analysis
• Work with AE/QMS and development parties in dealing with semiconductor related issues in root-cause analysis. Provide/ build up experts over time related to the matter in PE
• Any other duties assigned by the superior from time to time

Key Requirements:

• At least a bachelor's degree in Electrical and Electronic or equivalent
• Preferably three to five years' working experiences in a related field
• Professional competence in electrical circuity knowledge, statistical, 8D Mythology, quality tools, etc.
• Ability to lead a team in cross functional and to solve the problem
• Ability to communicate effectively and get the joint agreement when there is misalignment in between department and section

To succeed in this role as a Senior Product Engineer, you must have the leadership skills and be a problem-solver.

If you are up to taking a new challenge, this Senior Product Engineer role is for you. The opportunities to progress are ever-present, with the option of global mobility starts here in Penang.

If you would like to apply for this role or find out more, please email to audrey.ng@robertwalters.com.my.

Do note that we will only be in touch if your application is shortlisted.

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