.**It's an exciting time to work at Cisco!**Where every day we live our mission, shaping the future of the Internet by creating unprecedented value and opportunity for our customers, employees, investors, and ecosystem partners. Join our world-class supply chain team, a catalyst for change in driving company transformation, supporting innovation, improving productivity and exceeding customer expectations.**Why Cisco?**At Cisco, each person brings their unique talents to work as a team and make a difference. Yes, our technology changes the way the world works, lives, plays and learns, but our edge comes from our people.You will be part of a Regional Supply Chain Operations team accountable of guiding and leading our manufacturing partners to meet our customers' expectations as well as helping Cisco to create, implement and adopt new processes, platforms and technologies that enables better customer experience.Be you, with us! #WeAreCiscoThe **Manufacturing Engineer** is the primary technical interface to the Manufacturing Partner site and is accountable for driving both Operational Perfection (Delivery, Quality, and Cost) and Factory Excellence (capability, efficiency, security and sustainability). Position requires strong knowledge on PCBA manufacturing operations and SMT technology roadmap.**What you'll do**Supports manufacturing engineering functions at the manufacturing sites including:- Manage daily support of our products and tools in manufacturing.- Support NPI launch and govern sustaining products within manufacturing partners.- Support product transfers between manufacturing sites.- Analyze various sets of data and programs for quality & process control.- Drive process optimization, yield improvements and process consistency within manufacturing sites.- Provides technical support for all systemic defects, line stops, material purges and quality issues.- Factory site technical quality metrics ownership and driving metrics improvement relating to structural test.- Govern ECO and deviation implementation during bom change or fab respin.- Enforce & review SoP docs and SPC specs (Yield, Cpk, GR&R), during phase gate transitions and periodically for sustaining production.- Conduct audits of factory processes.- Provide oversight during critical production stages.- Keep close loop with ProdOps central team.**Who you are**- Typically requires a BS/MS in IE/EE/ME with 5+ years of experience at an electronics manufacturing factory.- Industry knowledge and understanding of electronics manufacturing processes and quality systems.- Working knowledge of statistical methods (SPC, AQL), as used in a Mfg. context.- Clarity in documenting issues. Persistence in following up on root cause analysis & corrective actions by responsible parties.- Excellent communication skills with internal teams and external partners.- Statistical analysis knowledge is plus.- Ability to multi-task and solve complex problems