Operation, Senior Engineering Manager
Yokneam Moshava, Northern, Israel
Led a change and team building in Yokneam, IsraelTeam building: definition, job description, cultivating existing team, recruitment of component engineer, testing development and NPI engineers, established automated production testing and NPI teams.Introduction and implementation of a Product Line Management Web platform – Omnify.Introduced and implemented test design reviews, Dfx methods, and JTAG in the early stages of the design phase.Quality KPIs analysis and Yield improvement – working with MRV and Flex quality on technical investigations to improve production Yield, RMA, and production testing lines efficiency.Responsibility on components engineering and AVL, database management (EOL,2nd source, PCN, REACH and RoHS directives). Managed AVL Database with active components’ "clean up" and defined process and methods to manage EU directives of RoHS, REACH, and components’ obsolescence in the MRV systems.Led the release to production activity from development to mass production through the PLC process, using roadmap and gates to meet on time performance, and keep it cost-effective & manufacturable.Managed documentation control, BOM, production files, version management, ECOs, ECO workflows, set process to ensure ECOs are implemented in Flex.Managed development and implementation of local and remote MAC address allocation Web tool and set a process to control MAC address allocation for internal use and contracted production sites.Actively supported negotiations with 3rd party service providers, certifications agencies, and managed products certification tests (CE).