Job Posting Start Date 11-20-2024 Job Posting End Date
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Job Summary
To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we're looking to add a Director of Engineering, Liquid Cooling Specialist located in United States (Location may vary, Austin preferred).
Reporting to the Sr Director Operations Engineering, this role is responsible to direct and coordinates activities of personnel engaged in the Manufacturing operations to drive Process development and manage technical relationship with customer to support NPI processes for Cloud Enterprise and Compute Global operations.
What a typical day looks like:
- Will act as the first escalation point globally for all product programs, projects and operational performance issues.
- Ensure collaborative cross-functional teamwork to effectively initiate, plan, execute, monitor and control all phases of NPI.
- Ensure effective two-way communications between Flex Operations and Global Account Management.
- Facilitate and enhance cross-functional relationship to maximize customer satisfaction criteria and operational performance.
- Provide the necessary leadership and support to site Program & Project Managers (design, NPI, operations, etc.) to ensure programs are executed to plans.
- Participate in NPI program reviews.
- Ensure all programs and project teams adhere to the Flex Product Life Cycle Process (FPLC) process.
- Be responsive to customer requests and ensure high Customer Satisfaction.
- Ensure effective and timely corrective action of any performance and customer related issues.
- Recognizes and develops talent as a key element of executing operational business plans. Ensures Flex's values are part of site work life. Provides strategic leadership for the function.
- Travel up to 40% Domestic and Internationally to support Manufacturing sites.
- BA/BS degree in a related field or equivalent experience and training.
- Experience in assembly/design of Liquid Cooled/cooling systems.
- Good knowledge of infrastructure to support testing of Liquid Cooled systems related to Data Center or Power space.
- Experience with managing advanced process development activities.
- Previous experience working within Manufacturing supporting NPI and Product Transfers.
- Strong customer and Program management experience with Tier 1 OEMs.
- Good knowledge of System Integration processes and Liquid Cooling infrastructure.
- Ability to interface and communicate with different levels of the organization, both at customer & Flex.
- Strong analytical capabilities and attention to detail. Ability to dig deep into issues when needed.
- Bilingual in Spanish is a plus.
- Full range of medical benefits, dental, vision
- Life Insurance
- Matching 401K
- PTO
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Employee discounts at local retailers
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Is Sponsorship Available?
No
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