Mechanical Engineer, Advanced

You will be part of Zebra’s Enterprise Mobile Computing (EMC) division, a word class industry leader in mobile phone and computer products (IoT, Cell phone, Healthcare, Retail, Industrial, Warehouse, and Route Accounting devices), under the Enterprise Mobility Business of Zebra Technologies, Inc.  As part of a broader design team, you will participate in the design and development of mechanical parts within mobile computing products and accessories to ensure we have a holistic balance between tool design, part design, plastic and casting processing, and FEA and mold flow.  This position will coordinate teams from Zebra, our partners, and suppliers to confirm tool design, simulation, and tool build quality.  In doing so, you will be developing new processes, providing design advise, coordinate with supplier selection as well as investigating new suppliers.

This is a tooling engineering position with a focus on supporting the design and development of parts, and taking those parts though tooling, and assisting with addressing production readiness issues/efficiencies.  The responsibilities will range from supporting the Zebra development teams and assisting with best practice part design for tooling, to working with partners and suppliers on their tooling capabilities and understandings, to addressing issues and concerns that arise during the project phases prior to release. The role will report into the Global Mechanical engineering team and will require working with multiple project teams as well as the development partners and suppliers.  Additionally, there will be a focus on identifying new suppliers that can bring state of the art techniques, capabilities, and efficiencies.

• Audit current and potential supply base for tooling and processing capabilities to establish Zebra has access to the tooling technologies needed to support our product family
• Confirm our vendor's tool design and build capabilities enable consistent build quality in tight timelines.
• Support gaps in partner and suppliers tooling engineering capability.
• Work with partners and suppliers to ensure useful ESI is performed in a timely and adequate manner to manage risk in a program
• Oversee sub vendors tool trial and NPI part processing to be confident that mold simulation, and part FEA expectations are seen in initial builds
• Work with design team (mechanical and Industrial Design) to guide designs for tool risk reduction. When design risk is unavoidable, provide supplier and technology options that can be evaluated and chosen to bring the risk to a manageable level
• Understands scientific molding processes and is able to set process at first part trials and enforces this practice at suppliers and can coach and develop this standpoint with the partners and their suppliers.
• Runs alternate mold flow options when needed to get suppliers in line with design risk management
• Exercises independent judgment in methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
• Creates formal networks involving coordination among groups.
• Serves as organization spokesperson on tooling practices, and networks this understanding to others in the organization such as commodity teams
• Acts as prime consultant on new manufacturing processes that require tooling and that effect the mechanical and ID team's objectives.
• Works with other teams to guarantee tool costing is in line with its complexity and that tool capacities and cavitation are appropriately considered for the programs targets
• Helps to identify and review new suppliers that can benefit Zebra and our partners.

Key Skills and Competencies:  Tool design experience, scientific molding training, mold flow simulation training and experience

• U.S. Only:
  • Bachelors degree and 5+ year experience or Masters degree and 4+ year experience
• All other Regions:
  • Bachelor's degree
  • 8+ years work experience