Manager PCB Layout Design (Storage/ Server/ Network)

Job description

Overview

Manager - PCB Layout Design (Storage/ Server/ Network)

Job Title: Manager, Hardware Design Engineering 2
Functional Area: Engineering (ENG)
Career Stream: Design Engineering Hardware (DHW)
Role: Manager (MG2)
Job Code: MG2-ENG-DHW
Direct/Indirect Indicator: Indirect

Summary

The Manager, Hardware Design Engineering manages cross functional teams with other designers, customers, manufacturing engineering and project leadership to ensure robust and high quality product development.

Enhance designs with feedback from reviews in areas such as manufacturing, test, supply chain, reliability, industrial design and simulations.

Provide support throughout the manufacturing process of the electrical/mechanical system that they have designed.

Detailed Description

Performs tasks such as, but not limited to, the following:

• Lead a complex project PCB design, up to 56 layers, 112G.
  
  
• Top-down (Breakdown) the PCB design from Planning to detail PCB design.
  
  
• Supervises designers and troubleshooting and solving software problems.
  
  
• Estimates effort accurately by PCB by project.
  
  
• Maintain the process within the team
• Keep the PCB team output at high quality
• Lead planning a set of PCBs design at RFQ and planning stage, balance feasibility and cost
• Accurate estimate PCB design effort and schedule
• Lead peer review, manager review, and cross site review
• Capable to lead a complex (server, storage, switch) PCB design.
  
  
• Capable top-down the PCB design from Planning to detail PCB design.
  
  
• Capable supervises other designers and helps to troubleshoot and solve CAD software problems.
  
  
• Maintains PCB design integrity through updates and records of changes.
  
  
• Be the key interface, meets with project team leaders, designers, customer and suppliers
• The designer must be able to initiate and lead activities to improve the design process and increase the efficiency of the design tools.
  
  
• Evaluates, recommends and tests CAD software and other programs necessary for PC design.
  
  
• Seeks out new approaches for building internal and external relationships; maintains contacts with existing relationships.
  
  

Management Key Skills

• Stay on top, 2 level higher of team and project;
• Managing PCB/Library resource;
• Oversee relevant activities and deliverables;
• Managing the impact of change from relevant functions;
• Develop PCB/Library team capability and successor;
• Maintain PCB design guideline and processes;
• Breakdown and plan the complex work;
• Familiar with SCH/PCB design tool for automation and efficiency;
• Customer, supplier, internal teams interface, build up the relationship;

Design Skill

• Extensive computer and ECAD tools knowledge;
• Cadence Allegro V17.x preferred
• Understand electrical/mechanical/thermal constraints, select the best strategy for layout implementation.
  
  
• Understand RF, Power, Analog is a plus;
• Running SI/PI tools, drive the results is a plus.
  
  
• In-depth knowledge of electronics and printed circuit board design;
• In-depth knowledge of fabrication, assembly and test processes, including use of Valor’s Enterprise tool
• Diagnose and prioritize issues and solve design related problems.
  
  

Soft Skill

• Communicate with internal/external customers and supplier.
  
  
• Communications – logically, clear, concise, both written and spoken.
  
  
• Details orientated.
  
  
• Drive issues to root cause, logical problem solving.
  
  
• Aggressively drive tasks independently and to seek out information internally, externally.
  
  

Physical Demands

• Duties of this position are performed in a normal office environment.
  
  
• Duties may require extended periods of sitting and sustained visual concentration on a computer monitor or on numbers and other detailed data.
  
  
• Repetitive manual movements (e.g., data entry, using a computer mouse, using a calculator, etc.) are frequently required.
  
  
• Occasional travel may be required.
  
  

Typical Experience

• Min 5 years’ direct experience in complex PCB design, 8 and plus years preferred

Typical Education

Bachelor degree or consideration of an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Educational Requirements may vary by Geography

Notes

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities of the position.

Employees are held accountable for all duties of the job.

Job duties and the % of time identified for any function are subject to change at any time.

Celestica is an equal opportunity employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on any protected status (including race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran or disability status or other characteristics protected by law).

Special arrangements can be made for candidates who need it throughout the hiring process.

Please indicate your needs and we will work with you to meet them.

Required Skill Profession

It & Technology