Mechanical Manufacturing Engineer, Technical Infrastructure

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Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in Electro-Mechanical assembly.
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Industrial, Mechanical, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Experience with Product Data Management (e.g., Agile, Windchill) and CAD modeling tools (e.g., SolidWorks, etc.).
• Experience developing effective technical relationships with contract manufacturers/vendors.
• Experience with one of the following sub-disciplines: sheet metal fabrication, hard tooling fabrication, plastic injection molding.
• Ability to provide design feedback and to influence the product design process by proposing improvements with data.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work with multiple teams on complex projects spanning multiple technologies.
  
  

About The Job

Google has one of the largest and most powerful computing infrastructures in the world. Your team is responsible for providing the manufacturing capability to deliver this state-of-the-art physical infrastructure. As a Manufacturing Engineer, you evaluate the product designs and create the processes, tools and procedures behind Google’s powerful search technology. When vendors build parts for our infrastructure, you’re right there alongside ensuring manufacturing processes are repeatable and controlled. You collaborate with Commodity Managers and Design Engineers to determine Google’s infrastructure needs and product specifications. Your work ensures the various pieces of Google’s infrastructure fit together perfectly and keep our systems humming along smoothly for a seamless user experience.

The Manufacturing Operations team is responsible for providing the manufacturing capability to deliver infrastructure. In this role, you will evaluate the product designs, create the processes, tools, and procedures powering Google’s technical infrastructure. You will ensure manufacturing processes are repeatable and controlled. You will also collaborate with Commodity Managers and Design Engineers to determine Google’s infrastructure needs and product specifications to ensure the pieces of Google’s infrastructure fit together perfectly and keep our systems running smoothly for a seamless user experience.

Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google’s product portfolio possible. We’re proud to be our engineers’ engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.

Responsibilities

• Drive concurrent engineering through effectively communicating design, process, tooling, and material changes to Google manufacturing partners and design engineering peers.
• Perform Design for Manufacturability/Assembly (DFM/A) analysis for sheet metal (soft tool), plastic injection molded, metal stamped (hard tool), and electro-mechanical parts/assemblies.
• Resolve manufacturing and field challenges, escalating design, manufacturing, and product issues to others within the organization when appropriate. Identify, initiate, and drive process improvements that reduce process cycle times and cost, while maintaining exceptional quality.
• Using a Product Data Management (PDM) system, create and maintain Bills of Materials (BoM), Approved Vendor Lists (AVL), and Engineering Change Request/Order (ECR/ECO) in support of Google Products.
• Identify and qualify contract manufacturers/vendors for precision sheet metal, high-volume metal stamping, plastic injection molding tooling.
  
  

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