Meet the Team

The Global Manufacturing Operations (GMO) Manufacturing Engineering (ME) team plays critical role in the Cisco Supply Chain. ME is responsible for manufacturing and quality excellence, on-time delivery, cost reduction, efficiency improvement, problem solving, innovation, and development of new technologies. ME team lead the manufacturing excellence to Cisco global Supply Chain success.

Your Impact

As a Global Manufacturing Operation Manufacturing Engineer, you play a key role in manufacturing process and quality excellence. You’re responsible for leading and managing the technical challenges with the Manufacturing partners (MPa) and ODM suppliers. Support the various business unit products that are manufactured out of the MPa.

• Responsible for Manufacturing relative metrics, leadership for quality metrics/yield/ Line stops/Purges/Quality issues/Defect reductions/audit, problem solving, continuous improvement, efficiency improvement, cost reduction.

• Scorecard and QBR (Quarterly Biz Review) inputs ownership (Technical).

• NPI (New Product Introduction) readiness review, build review, and DFM feedback close loop.

• MPa’s technical process capability assessment, Improvement initiatives/Value Engineering initiatives.

• MPa’s capacity management, Interacts and works with the Manufacturing Partner to develop good manufacturing plants.

• Assessment of MPa process technical capability.

• Capacity technical review.

• Technical related quote/cost reviews and inputs.

• Factory quality audits and closures.

• Acts as a technical leader who has significant impact on the business.

• Provides guidance and support to the team to develop an independent and reliable team to support activities at the site.

• Drive innovative solutions to resolve business challenges and explore factory of the future.

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience in manufacturing engineering, or a related field within manufacturing.

• Strong understanding of manufacturing processes, quality control, and product lifecycle management.

• Excellent skills in manufacturing, assembly technology development, and problem solving.

• Excellent mindset of quality control, continuous improvement, risk assessment and prevention, communication and collaboration, data-driven, Standards & Compliance Awareness, Responsibility.

• Proactively takes ownership and demonstrates the courage to lead teams with a strong sense of initiative.

Preferred Qualifications

• Holds an Engineering bachelor’s degree in electrical/mechanical, working experiences in the PCB Assembly industry, deeply understanding the Manufacturing Process Engineering area (SMT/PTH/System Assembly…).

• Good English language skill both on written and verbal.

• Good program management skills and communication skills to be able to be resourceful and able to take a lead in getting the right resource to solve problems at the factory.

• Preferred knowledge in designs for manufacturability, fulfillment and Design Margin analysis / Robustness/Data Analysis/DMAIC /problem solving.

• Good collaboration skills, accountability and responsibility.

• As proactive leader with strong influencing skills and a strategic mindset, capable of driving team success through ownership and vision.

Why Cisco?

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.