Principal Staff Mechnical Design Engineer
Chicago, Illinois, Us
• Principal Staff Engineer responsible for system & component design modeling, system & component design reviews, system & component design submissions to vendors, system & component design testing, system & component design failure analysis, prototyping, corrective action and implementation, new product introduction and new product launch.• Travel to vendors, suppliers, tooling, and manufacturers throughout the world to assist manufacturing, tooling, and root cause design issues. Assisting manufacturing engineers to address and eliminate problems by root causing current assembly issues and devising corrective actions as well as looking for unforeseen issues in the factory. Be onsite for tooling FOT to address any unforeseen issues.•Designed 3rd gen Moto G LDS main housing and brought up 63 LDS main housing tools for ramp. Maintained over 5cpk on length and width of 120mm +/- 0.15mm X 72mm +/-0.1mm across all tools and vendors.• Manage 3rd party Vendor teams to maintain schedule, capacity, quality, and budget.• Designed and Prototyped a Glass TBF bonded to a Metal Frame then insert molded housing.• Root caused field returns and issues of Motorola portfolio to minimize warranty impact. Reduced iDEN portfolio returns from 4%/month to 0.5%/month.• Communicated ideas and issues through weekly reports, technical reports, presentations, and patent submissions• Junior Engineer coaching and mentoring