Coatings Subject Matter Expert

Job Description

Summary

Posted: Oct 11, 2022 Role Number: 200371712 Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. The people here at Apple don’t just create products — they create the kind of wonder that’s revolutionized entire industries. It’s the diversity of those people and their ideas that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do, from amazing technology to industry-leading environmental efforts. Join Apple, and help us leave the world better than we found it. Apple’s Operations team ensures that Apple’s cutting-edge designs become industry-leading products, delivered on time and on spec. This high profile, highly respected organization is positioned at the junction of Apple’s product/industrial design teams, the industries that supply core component technologies, and our manufacturing partners who help ensure that products such as iPad, iPhone and Mac can be restocked just as fast as they fly off the shelves. We’re looking for high-energy people to support the design, manufacturing, fulfillment and support of all things Apple. As part of Manufacturing design group, we seek a Coatings subject-matter expert who will be part of a team tasked with developing and implementing application processes for both functional and cosmetic purposes. In this high visibility role, we look forward to your investigating and developing solutions to overcome challenging technical tasks that require non-standard manufacturing approaches.

Key Qualifications

Key Qualifications

• Experience in a hands-on manufacturing environment
• Understanding of cosmetic and mechanical properties of coating materials as they relate to manufacturing requirements
• Understanding of statistical analysis methods and DOE principles along with strong problem solving toolkit- FMEA, Root cause analysis, DMAIC, Fish bone diagrams, 5Whys
• Experience driving corrective actions / failure analysis efforts
• Knowledge of quality and reliability concepts, supplier management, and general manufacturing operations
• Conduct yield gap studies and develop/implement plans to close.
• Project management experience and ability to program-manage across multiple projects, vendors and resources.
• Working experience in a wide collaborative environment with other teams including: Industrial Design, Product Design, quality and commercial teams.
• History developing coating for cosmetic surfaces
• Advanced materials/process development experience
• Combination of deep and working knowledge coatings development and applications:
• Application processes including air atomized spray, ultrasonic spray, ink jet, screen/pad printing
• Analytical characterization techniques for wet coatings and dry films (e.g. GCMS, HPLC, SEM, OMM, CMM) and methods color/gloss, orange peel, flop, hardness, cross link density, dry film thickness
• Fundamental properties of polymers (Mw, Tg, modulus) and how they relate to film properties of paints, inks, or other cosmetic/functional coatings
• Various coating chemistries including 2k and UV cure acrylics, epoxies, polyurethanes, and polyesters
• Ability to travel periodically domestic and overseas

Description

Description As Coatings SME, we work together to assess specific coating/printing requirements and relate design goals to process, equipment, and material requirements that will be used to evaluate a set of options to solve difficult manufacturing problems. Responsibilities : - Involved with researching manufacturing processes and evaluating them for their potential to achieve technical goals. - Develop expert level understanding of key process drivers in order to determine how to best to improve process capabilities. - Apply that knowledge as the technical resource for other process teams to support implementation at supplier locations. - Plan and implement development trials to test feasibility, optimize process inputs, and validate capabilities of process options. - Analyze results and provide recommendations based on sound engineering discernment as well as data. - Present analysis to key decision makers which will be used to make significant commercial and design commitments.

Education & Experience

Education & Experience BE/ B.Tech/ Masters or PhD in Chemical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or Materials Science

Additional Requirements

Additional Requirements