PCBA Process Characterization Engineer (Manufacturing)

Job Posting Start Date 08-21-2025 Job Posting End Date

Flex is the diversified manufacturing partner of choice that helps market-leading brands design, build and deliver innovative products that improve the world.

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Job Summary

Summary:

The “Process Characterization Engineer” will be holding up on mechanical, electrical, and testing of product design for a new and rapidly growing division within Flex. Work in comprehending the product requirements, assembling prototypes for products under development, fixture creation for assembly and test of prototypes. Implementing world class solutions for our customers.

 

Responsibilities:

• Working with a matrixed, cross functional team of technical experts within Flex organization, extending and building new resources/ capabilities to incorporate into the Flex knowledge base.
• Working with a matrixed, cross functional team of technical experts within Flex organization, extending and building new resources/ capabilities to incorporate into the Flex knowledge base.
• Drive toward creative, robust, and effective solutions that meet customer requirements.
• Hold up engineering team with prototyping, product build, bring up, test, documentation, and successful release to manufacturing.
• Contribute with a cross functional team to develop technically robust and effective solutions to a wide variety of design problems.
• Manage design parameters and design tradeoff priorities in close coordination with other team members.
• Help develop best practices, identify equipment, and material needs with members of the team.
• Ability to resolve, define and design the system and subsystems approaches to meet project and program design goals, requirements and schedules.
• Identify standard products and sub-blocks for inclusion into solution proposals.
• Develop key relationships with internal design teams as well subcontractors to plan comprehensive product strategies based on future technologies.
• Strives for improvements and efficiencies in Engineering area.
• Monitors KPIs for engineering processes.
• Maintains up-to-date knowledge of technical development and trends in the field of expertise.
   

Qualifications:

• Functional knowledge, education background or 4 years working experience required.
• 3 years of PCBA/SMT experience
• Demonstrates advanced functional, technical and people and/or process management skills as well as customer (external and internal) relationship skills.
• Demonstrates mastery of expertise in multiple areas and industry.
• Demonstrates expert knowledge of the function and a thorough comprehension of Flex and related business.
• Demonstrates knowledge of multiple functional technologies/ processes, industries or functions and comprehension of connections of such processes.

What you'll receive for the great work you provide:

• Full range of medical, dental, and vision plans
• Life Insurance
• Short-term and Long-term Disability
• Matching 401(k) Contributions
• Vacation and Paid Sick Time
• Tuition Reimbursement

Job Category

Design, Process & Technology Engineering

Is Sponsorship Available?

No

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