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As part of Manufacturing Designs Subject Matter Expert team, create new highly cosmetic surface finishes. Work with Apples Industrial Design and Product Design teams to develop surface finishes with new colors and textures.\\n\\nMatch, pilot and scale new cosmetic Anodized finishes for production\\n- Utilize combined mechanical surface preparation to create textures (blasting, tumbling, polishing) and decorative anodizing finishing techniques to meet challenging new targets.\\n- Research new methods for creating new surface finishes and implementing tighter control of existing finishes.\\n- Evaluate manufacturing processes at early stages of product development to define critical process requirements and controls for tightest output.\\n- Plan and execute studies to confirm process capability to achieve excellent quality and high yields on high volume enclosures\\n- Present analysis to key decision makers that will be used to make commercial, cosmetic and design commitments
Evaluate supplier capabilities and address shortcomings relative to company needs\\nDrive on-site support in conjunction with USA counterparts for implementation of manufacturing processes at supplier locations\\nBuild relationships with these counterparts and suppliers, and foster development of their capabilities and expertise\\nMaintain working knowledge of key process drivers and subject matter expertise in the technologies to serve as technical resource on project teams. Investigate and validate new surface finishing processes, techniques, and equipment where appropriate.\\nFrequent domestic and some overseas travel expected.
Bachelors / Masters in engineering (chemical engineering, chemistry or materials science) or equivalent record of industrial experience.\\nMinimum 5 years experience in developing new cosmetic plated finishes. \\nExperience utilizing combined mechanical finishing and anodizing process to meet ID desired texture and color targets. \\nExperience in metal resin bonding technology.
Must be able to develop anodizing process and equipment to meet both cosmetic and functional reliability requirements.\\nAbility to plan, execute, and present results from investigations using statistical analysis and clearly communicated results and recommendations.\\nAbility to drive root cause/corrective action activities.\\nExperience with other chemical metal surface treatments for corrosion protection including conversion coating.\\nUnderstanding of color theory and color, gloss and texture measurement techniques.\\nMust have minimum average, preferably superior color discrimination ability.\\nKnowledge of cleaning and surfactants in pretreatment of aluminum (steel is a plus) for cosmetic finishes.\\nExperience working with an international supply chain.\\nAbility to define clear process controls and documentation for a robust process.\\nExperience developing cosmetic anodizing finishes.\\nHistory of successfully implementing new processes (possibly automation) in a mass production environment.\\nExpertise in establishing process controls that adhere to strict color specifications \\nAbility to use advanced analytical tools to characterize surface topography and material characteristics.\\nSolid understanding of DOE principles and use of statistical software.\\nExpertise in dealing with FA and characterization on finishing defects is preferred. .
