As a **Senior Engineer - Design for Excellence (DFX)**, you will develop engineering/product concepts that are innovative, high-quality, cost-appropriate, and satisfy all stakeholder's (customer, manufacturing, material, etc.) needs and requirements throughout the full Product Realization value stream.
**Key Job Accountabilities**:
- Perform Design for Excellence (DFX) analysis on PCB design and assemblies to determine ways to improve the design with the goal of improving quality/cost (process and material), testability access and long term reliability.
- Collaborate with internal/external design team and manufacturing team in PCB DFX analysis and reviews.
- Serve as a go to person within their discipline of expertise to provide technical guidance, control scope, schedule, budget and ensure overall technical success on projects.
- Participate in the project management and dispatching of DFX requests to ensure that they are completed in a timely manner taking into account any manufacturing need dates.
- Host meetings with customers to review the results of DFX analysis. Provide in-depth commentary and demonstrate DFX knowledge and capabilities.
- Develop engineering/product concepts that are innovative, high-quality, cost-appropriate, and satisfy all stakeholders (customer, manufacturing, material, agency, etc.) needs and requirements through an established area of technical specialty and mentorship of others on the general discipline team.
- Demonstrate the ability to work independently in multiple phases for the Product Realization Process, without direction from mentors or functional management.




**Additional Accountabilities**:
- Support the Lean culture and effectively utilizes Lean Sigma concepts and tools to identify and eliminate waste while improving processes.
- Support proposal development through the identification of project tasks, durations, interdependencies, risks, and assumptions.
- Participate in continuous improvement initiatives which include cross functional team involvement.
- Lead the evaluation and improvement of processes, tools, and methodologies using DMAIC concepts and tools to ensure best practices are used throughout the functional group and the design center.
**Education/Experience Qualifications**:
- A minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Engineering is required; a Bachelor's degree in Electrical & Electronics/Physics/Chemical Engineering or higher is preferred_._
- Five (5) years of related experience is required.
- Experience in using Valor software or equivalent is preferred.
- Knowledgeable on DFX issues related to PCB design, fabrication, assembly and test.
- Experience and knowledge in PCB fabrication, alternate board materials, and manufacturing/assembly processes is preferred.
- Ability to work effectively with customers, Design Engineers, PCB fabrication personnel, Plexus manufacturing and test engineering personnel to ensure a producible product.
- Able to work independently and possess excellent communication skills.
- Ability to work in a cross-functional team environment.
- This document does not represent a contract of employment and is not intended to capture every possible assignment the incumbent could be asked to perform._

📌 Senior Engineer - Design for Excellence (Dfx) (Guadalajara)
🏢 Plexus
📍 Guadalajara