Position overview

This role participates in all aspects of design, installation, troubleshooting, and maintenance of advanced equipment solutions within manufacturing and operations. Skills in design, develop, and validate sophisticated fixtures, jigs, and automation tooling for high-precision, micro-scale assembly operations are essential for success in this role. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of creating robust solutions for handling and assembling tiny, delicate components (sub-millimeter scale).

Key Responsibilities

1. Lead Precision Fixture & Tooling Design

· Own the end-to-end design lifecycle for complex fixtures, jigs, grippers, and automated work-holding solutions—from initial concept and 3D modeling through to detailed drawing creation and production handoff.

· Specialize in micro-assembly innovation, developing novel solutions for part feeding, orientation, alignment, and secure handling of miniature and fragile components where precision is critical.

· Design for manufacturability and durability, ensuring fixtures are robust, maintainable, and optimized for high-volume production environments.

2. Develop and Validate Automated Systems

· Participate in the conceptualization, mechanical design (using 3D CAD), and setup of universal assembly/test cells and new manufacturing equipment.

· Support hardware selection for automated systems, including sensors, pneumatics, robotics, and other electro-mechanical components.

· Build, wire, and assist in the installation, commissioning, and deployment of automation systems to global manufacturing sites.

· Perform maintenance, troubleshooting, and repair of robotics, vision, and control systems to ensure optimal functionality.

3. Ensure System Performance and Reliability

· Manage the fabrication, testing, and validation (e.g., Gage R&R) of fixtures and equipment, iterating designs to achieve repeatability and reliability.

· Provide expert-level troubleshooting for fixture and automation systems on the production floor, implementing effective and timely corrective actions.

· Create and maintain comprehensive documentation, including design specs, test reports, maintenance manuals, and engineering drawings.

4. Cross-Functional Collaboration and Continuous Improvement

· Act as a key member of the global automation team, supporting new equipment development and integration initiatives.

· Partner with R&D during design reviews to ensure new products are designed for assembly and automation (DFA).

· Train manufacturing personnel in the operation, maintenance, and troubleshooting of new equipment.

· Identify and implement opportunities for process improvement, cost reduction, and cycle time optimization.

5. Supplier and Quality Management

· Evaluate, select, and manage external suppliers; participate in technical reviews and qualify equipment solutions.

· Review and optimize equipment designs from external suppliers to meet project specifications and quality standards.

Competence requirements

Proficient in:

· Products optimization from manufacturing point of view

· Mechanical components selection and design in machine design (pneumatic, electrical, hydromantic)

· Mechanical structure, principle and application

· High-precision manufacturing and assembly

· Micro components design and manufacturing

· Dimension chain calculation, tolerance analysis and tolerance allocation

· Surface treatment and thermal treatment

· Mechanical assembly and adjustment

· Be able to deliver the best mechanical design under limited conditions (material, machining capability, assembly capability, cost)

· Understand safety rules and regulations to prevent unsafe set-ups, operations, or acts, which might cause injury to self, others, or the environment

Competent in:

· Time measurement, analysis and improvement

· Manufacturing line design and setup

· Automation concept design

· Robotics integrations

· 2D vision knowledge and integration

· Lean concept and implementation (One piece flow, SMED, PFMEA)

Familiar with:

· Capacity Analysis and Improvement

· Process Analysis, Diagnose and Design

· Control Architecture

· 3D vision knowledge and integration

Qualifications:
Education: University degree in Mechanical Engineering

Soft skills:

· Team working

· Organized and methodical in their work, with the ability to learn quickly and adapt easily to changes

· Work under pressure

· Self-motivated and ambitious

· Open minded, ready to be challenged and to learn best practices

· Strong predictive thinking, problem-solving, critical thinking, deductive reasoning, inductive reasoning, and analytical skills

· Good communication skills

Experience:

· A strong and demonstrable portfolio of successful projects involving the design of fixtures for tiny, high-precision assemblies (e.g., mobile phone hinges, micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), micro-optics, miniature sensors, or consumer electronics components)

· 5+ years of mechanical design experience with demonstrated ability to execute project deliverables that meet scheduling and cost requirements.

· 5+ years of experience with, or a combination of, designing/operating complex equipment, robotics, vision systems, and design for automated work cells.

· 5+ years of experience with processes like high-speed assembly, precise assembly, welding, soldering, testing, loading, sticking.

Travel:

Domestic/Oversea Travel to supplier sites or global GN sites upon project request as needed.