The Company: Cognex Corporation

Cognex is the global leader in the exciting and growing field of machine vision. With over $700 million of cash in the bank and no debt, we are a financially strong international company with a culture that maintains the fast paced, creative environment of a startup. Our employees, proudly called noids,ke their work seriously, but don't take themselves seriously. Our Work Hard, Play Hard, Move Fast culture recognizes our employees for their innovation, perseverance and hard work in a fun, rewarding, and quirky environment.

The Team:

By working with all Cognex business units, Our Operations Engineering team ensures that all new products being introduced into our global supply chain meet our high quality design and development standards. The Reliability Engineering team focuses on maintaining that quality throughout design changes and product updates.

The Role:

This Associate Manufacturing Engineer will accept a lead role in providing mechanical/manufacturing support for issues involving new and existing products. The responsibilities are ultimately focused on minimizing field failures and maintaining product quality. There will be frequent opportunities to effectively interface with design, process, test, and manufacturing engineering to solve mechanical product issues and production problems.

Essential Functions:

• Ensuring that products are designed for manufacturability; that possible failure modes are eliminated and that processes and procedures drive high quality and low cost.
• Analyze and debug product issues and develop solutions to meet quality and availability goals.
• Collect failure data, analyze, report, take corrective action and drive continuous improvement throughout the product lifecycle.
• Create and enforce qualification standards across multiple product lines and functional departments

• Lead the qualification of new and alternative mechanical components relating to EOL, PPV, etc. to ensure production flow and high product quality.
• Create clearly-written, fact-based reports on trending failures and other product-related problems.
• Assist with other responsibilities and tasks, when needed.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Perform root cause analysis on product field failures and drive corrective actions.
• Communicate and partnering with vendors and teams worldwide in order to implement changes.
• Manufacturing engineering technologies and assembly techniques.

• Ability to drive results quickly with attention to detail.
• Hands on experience in mechanical and/or PCB manufacturing process engineering a plus.
• CAD experience (SolidWorks is preferable).

Minimum education and work experience required:

• Bacheloregree in manufacturing, mechanical, electrical, or equivalent engineering.
• 0-2 years of experience in relevant, high-tech, electronics and electro-mechanical products.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities are encouraged to apply.