Position: Senior Mechanical Project Lead
Company:
Nokia
Location: San Diego
http://nokia.taleo.net/careersection/10 ... job=841807
"Connecting People" is at the heart of the
Nokia brand. Nokia is the world's number one mobile
solutions company, connecting more than 1.3 billion
people every day. Mobile maps, apps, music, media,
messaging and more are explored and presented here
in a comprehensive mobile solutions world.
Nokia's people ambition is very clear: an advanced
integrated company built upon trust and accountability,
great leadership and common values. We understand
people's desire to join a dynamic and innovative
team, where your ideas are valued and your creativity
is nurtured. Our future is your creation.
As a Sr. Mechanical Project Leader, you will
be part of a cross-functional design team responsible
for conceiving, designing and producing exciting
new products.
You will be a part of a team
of product design engineers to bring products to
market with both internal and external development
teams. You will need to work closely with many different
groups, including Industrial Design, Hardware Engineering,
Operations, Design Validation, Thermal, EMC, and
Software.
Primary Job Responsibilities &
Tasks:
• Responsible for Mechanical project
planning, requirements definition, error and risk
management, leading the Mechanical hardware design
and testing verification in close co-operation with
our co-development partners. You will lead technical
reviews and approval for all mechanical related
tasks.
• Manage product program Mechanical project
and deliverables according to project plan, processes,
requirements, specifications and objectives.
• Sr. Mechanical Project Engineer provides the technical
guidance and direction necessary to co-development
partner's team through authoritative decision making,
integration and testing reviews as well as timely
performance feedback to ensure that the co-development
partner successfully delivers an acceptable Mechanical
design.
• Provides longer term technical direction
by coaching and mentoring the co-development partner's
Mechanical team.
• Responsible for a total understanding
of the Mechanical design architecture, from component/material
selection, concept design, design implementation,
product verification, mass production quality control
and customer acceptance.
• Provide guidance
to co-development partner's Mechanical team regarding
issues and troubleshooting of Mechanical designs
that are encountered during a product development
cycle and communicates root cause to other projects
and other team members.
Scope of work:
• Individual contributor, variety of complex
tasks within area of responsibility, demonstrates
initiative and contributes to problem solving and
supervises supplier team on R&D process and
quality control.
• If necessary, able to take
complete ownership and solve issues and implement
solution when co-development partner is unable.
• Acts with independence and discretion in routine
matters. Plan and follow-up product development
schedules and deliveries.
• Makes decisions
that affect own work and related teams.
Qualifications:
• A Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering
is required. Masters preferred.
• 8+ years of
mobile handset design experience is expected
• Competent in project management
• Must be
able to guide and coach others, including the co-development
partners Mechanical design team
• Good team
player with effective verbal and written communication
skills
• Innovative thinking, high motivation
and energy
• Excellent English communication
skills
• Proficiency with proto, low (quick
tooling), medium (soft tooling) and high volume
tooling methods
• 8 or more year’s experience
in product design for medium and high volume portable
consumer products
• Experience developing parts
and assemblies in 3D CAD
• Experience with the
mechanical integration of RF, Antenna, Audio and
Baseband requirements
• Direct management of
multi-national product development engineering teams
• Root cause analysis, DFMEA, design for six
sigma and test methods proficiency
• Finite
Element Analysis proficiency
• Tolerance analysis
proficiency
• Excellent materials and manufacturing
process knowledge
"Connecting people" is
the heart of our brand. This is why Nokia is respected
and recognized worldwide. Our people shape and create
future technologies. This is something we are proud
of, and so will you. We offer a dynamic learning
culture that nurtures openness, transparency, with
endless opportunities for competence development.
We reward the results of your success. We cultivate
a flexible culture that embraces the uniqueness
of everyone's life. Our resources support the mobile
way of working and make it possible to arrange your
day in the way it suits your career and personal
demands.
