Role Title:
Electronics Product engineer, New Product Introduction Team
Role Type:
Full-time employment
Location:
California, USA
Company Description:
Off.Grid:Electric (OGE) is the world's first massively scalable off-grid electric company. It exists to provide affordable and reliable energy (M-POWER) to communities that currently lack such power. The company utilizes distributed renewable energy to sell power as a service to customers who suffer from an expensive grid, an unreliable grid, or have no electrical grid access at all. It is headquartered in Arusha, Tanzania and founded by a team of world-class, venture-backed entrepreneurs.
Position Description:
The New Product Introduction (NPI) Team Product engineer is a multi-functional role. The Product engineer, reporting to the engineering department, and the NPI Manager. This may be a remote working environment, requiring flexible hours to communicate with Asia-based manufacturers as well as Tanzania-based engineers. The Product Engineer will contribute to several key areas of the company's activities including: new product development, evaluation for DFM, DFT, and introduction into mass production. Reliability is key for our product, so this role carries an important emphasis on quality control. This is a role that requires excellent communication and organizational skills, as well as the technical abilities required of a trained engineer.
Key Responsibilities:
• Core team member for Product Development Team, design and prototype build through production quality management.
• Support product development and testing phases through technical research, component and PCBA testing, data collection and analysis, managing external technical resources and oterh related development activities.
• Contribute to analysis of Product designs relative to DF* Criteria (Design-For-Manufacturability, Design-For-Assembly, and Design-For-Test)
• Drive second-sourcing qualification (Approved Vendor List) activities at component level
• Establish effective corrective action plans with vendors and provide guidance for the development and improvement of test methods and processes
• With Engineering and Supplier Quality Engineering, develop Quality Control Plans for manufacturing
• Manage all ECO cut-in / phase in processes for the smooth integration of product changes
• Conduct First-Article Inspections (FAI) on new products and revisions
• Monitor and react to quality and reliability excursions through product life cycle.
• Drive design of fixtures and tooling to support/improve manufacturing productivity & efficiency of products.
• Drive continuous improvement of yields at all relevant logical system and/or PCBA test operations.
• Supervise and facilitate new product introduction (NPI) on location with Asia manufacturer
• Assist in NPI in East Africa
Desired Skills and Experience
Required Qualifications:
• Experience in product development engineering or manufacturing of electrical / electronic assemblies in a global environment
• Knowledge of PCBA and system level manufacturing test processes
• Exposure to Continuous Improvement and Six Sigma methodologies
• Very good verbal and written communication skills ideally
• Knowledge of various troubleshooting and debug methodologies
• Knowledge in DF* methodologies
Desired Qualifications:
• Basic understanding of programming languages
• Lean Manufacturing Experience
• PMI, PMP certification
• Data driven decision making and results orientation
• Ability to travel between 25- 35% of time.
• working knowledge of battery management systems, LED lighting systems, and low voltage power electronics
• working knowledge of Thai and/or Chinese language and culture
• Experience working/traveling in emerging markets or in Africa
Education and Experience:
• BS or MS in Electrical or Computer Engineering is a MUST.
• Intern or 1-3 years experience in design or manufacturing of electronics products
• Experience in PCBA, chassis, electronic systems fabrication, assembly, and/or test required.
OGE's Core Values:
1. Deliver more. Our customers deserve the very best. We obsess over exceeding our customers' expectations.
2. Expect more. 'This is Africa' doesn't fly with us. We hold ourselves and our partners to a higher standard.
3. Think big. We have an audacious goal that will be impossible unless every member of the organization thinks bigger than the average employee.
4. Create value, rather than extract it. Build local management capacity, support small businesses and improve customers' lives.
5. Pursue personal growth. We invest in ourselves, our employees and our partners more than anyone else. We teach each other how to be better than we think we are.
6. Speak up. All of our employee's opinions are valuable and we give them tools to express themselves.
7. Integrity above all else. Integrity drives trust and builds the company's reputation.
8. Build a community you want to be a part of. Like a family, a company builds strong bonds through intentional time together; fun times, challenging times and time spent helping each other. Throughout our organization we encourage teams to treat each other like family.
9. More than just a customer: Our customers are long term partners in our success, and we in theirs. We reward their loyalty continually.
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