Director of Hardware Engineering

The Director of Hardware Engineering is responsible for designing,

developing, deploying and optimizing processes and equipment for

manufacturing to achieve quality cost and delivery goals for its

customer's products.

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

Experience with liquid cooling.

Identify and manage all new customer-specific process and equipment development projects.

Develop the scope of all technical work, coordinate the team,

evaluate and support prioritization of work assignments and assist

with problem resolution for the full customer product life cycle.

Support all manufacturing technical issues related to the customer's

product(s) from product conception to product obsolescence.

Evaluate, optimize and negotiate tradeoffs for DFX issues with

suppliers, customers, supply chain and equipment leaders to deliver a cost-optimized total manufacturing solution.

Evaluate potential manufacturing impacts affecting safety, cost,

quality or delivery for each design concept.

Evaluate suppliers' capability and capacity to meet production

schedule and cost targets

May also be considered the Subject Matter Expert in the company for specific sub-sector(s) of manufacturing.

Develop best practice standards, participate in industry organizations for developing the standards and provide training and application

support globally.

Must have an engineering degree, preferably EE or ME and masters degree.