Mechanical Design lead/manager

Company background

Anora is headquartered in Allen, Texas, USA and has subsidiaries in India, Germany, Singapore, and Malaysia. Anora’s products and services provide differentiated value to electronic companies in green energy, consumer, industrial and artificial intelligence market. Our products and solutions are used by leading companies to test their semiconductor products, assembled PCB’s and electronics products.

We have full in-house engineering and manufacturing. Our engineering capabilities span test planning, equipment selection, custom instrumentation design, PCB design, embedded software development, application software and driver software development, mechanical design, ATE system integration, trouble shooting and deploying in customers production line. Our manufacturing capabilities include PCB assembly, sheet metal, CNC fabrication, bed of nail fixture manufacturing, test fixture manufacturing, interface PCB fabrication and assembly, custom test interface box fabrication and assembly. Visit www.anoralabs.com for more details.

Team management:

• Assign engineering resources to New Product Development (NPD) and technology projects and strategy
• Manage the design and development team to produce a range of concept design schemes for new products as well as updating existing product designs
• Set department objectives/KPIs and review and assess ongoing performance of direct reports
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure optimal performance
• Work collaboratively, negotiate and engage with key stakeholders to facilitate delivery and compliance with the engineering strategy
• Contribute to the creation and implementation of best practice engineering vision, strategy, policies, processes and procedures to aid and improve operational performance

Electromechanical system architecture

• Ability to capture and specify the design requirements. Work with mechanical engineers and electronic engineers and finalize the system architecture.  
•  Drive forward product development, innovation and ‘think outside the box’ to generate engineering advantage for customers, thinking creatively to develop new/improved solutions

Design:

• Lead the team to break down system into assemblies
•  Lead the team to complete the component and assembly designs
• Analyse issues to resolve issues, for example stresses, using tools such as Finite Element Analysis (FEA), Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA)

Customer interactions:

• Respond to Requests for Quotation (RFQs) from the Sales team
• Create initial feasibility studies and proof of concept design ideas
• Maintain communication and interaction with customer though the project execution.
• Responsibility for the management of all Design activities including Request for Quotations (RFQs), Design freeze / release, Design Failure Mode Effect Analysis (DFMEA), Production Part Approval Process (PPAP), Design Verification/Product Validation (DV & PV) testing

Process management

• Work with company management to implement best practices across mechanical design organization
• Ensure process compliance across the team
• Instill a culture of continuous improvement

Personality and skill

• CNC and sheet metal part designs
• Strong expertise in 3D modelling
• Mechanical automation and machine design
• High energy professional
• Process oriented
• Ability to grasp higher level concepts and able to drive lower-level details
• Very good communication/listening skills
• Not afraid of failures
• Approachable
• Enjoy interacting with people and can quickly connect with people