At PMI, we've chosen to do something incredible. We're transforming our business and building our future on one clear purpose: to deliver a smoke-free future.
With huge change comes huge opportunity. Wherever you join us, you'll have the freedom to dream up and deliver better, brighter solutions, with the space to move your career forward in different directions.
Join us and you'll have the resources, support, and technology needed to break new ground and bring ideas to life. You'll work with experts across functions and have access to subject matter specialists and business decision-makers.
If you're creative, courageous, and ready to take calculated risks, you can make a meaningful impact and help accelerate the delivery of our smoke-free future.
You will work as a 12-month fixed-term contractor supporting Philip Morris Electronics Shenzhen Office (PMES), a subsidiary of Philip Morris International, Inc. You may be engaged by a third-party service provider and assigned to work at PMES. You will lead end-to-end industrialization of mechanical components and sub-assemblies - from concept and tooling development through qualification, capacity ramp-up, and sustainable mass production.
- Lead end-to-end industrialization of mechanical components and sub-assemblies from concept development through mass-production readiness.
- Drive manufacturing readiness across tooling, processes, equipment, automation, quality, capacity, and supply-chain execution.
- Act as the industrialization focal point across Design, Quality, Procurement, Operations, and external manufacturing partners.
- Lead industrialization activities through EVT, DVT, PVT, pilot runs, and mass-production phases.
- Drive closure of manufacturing issues and ensure lessons learned are incorporated into subsequent builds and future programs.
- Support design reviews and provide DFM and risk-assessment recommendations to improve manufacturability, quality, cost, and delivery.
- Drive tooling development for plastic, metal, and cosmetic components to meet design, quality, manufacturing, and applicable regulatory requirements.
- Develop and qualify manufacturing processes, including CNC machining, plastic injection molding, metal injection molding (MIM), die casting, stamping, forging, bonding, laser processes, surface treatments, and automated or semi-automated assembly.
- Collaborate with suppliers to optimize tooling concepts, tool design, process parameters, equipment selection, cycle time, and production efficiency.
- Manage tooling project timing, including first-shot, engineering changes, copy-tool development, qualification, and production release.
- Assess supplier readiness covering tooling, equipment, process capability, capacity, automation, quality systems, manpower, and manufacturing scalability.
- Lead supplier technical reviews, qualification activities, production-readiness assessments, and on-site issue resolution.
- Drive corrective and preventive actions with clear owners, timing, evidence, and effectiveness verification.
- Lead tool and process qualification activities, including IQ/OQ/PQ or equivalent validation, PPAP, DOE, MSA/GR&R, SPC, and Cp/Cpk capability studies.
- Support product verification, validation, and manufacturing qualification activities, ensuring objective evidence is available before production release.
- Drive capacity planning, equipment and automation qualification, line-readiness reviews, and production ramp-up strategies against project demand.
- Ensure tooling, equipment, process, workforce, and supplier readiness support volume requirements and business continuity.
- Define sustainable manufacturing strategies for yield, throughput, maintenance, copy capacity, and long-term supply assurance.
- Identify, assess, and mitigate industrialization risks related to manufacturability, quality, yield, capacity, cost, supply continuity, and project schedule.
- Escalate critical risks with fact-based impact assessments, recovery plans, accountable owners, and target dates.
- Lead continuous improvement initiatives to improve process capability, first-pass yield, OEE, automation efficiency, throughput, and manufacturing cost.
- Ensure compliance with PMI policies, industry regulations, and applicable laws.
- Safeguard confidential information and promote compliance among external partners and suppliers.
- Bachelor's degree or above in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related discipline; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
- Minimum 10 years of experience in industrialization, manufacturing engineering, tooling engineering, NPI engineering, mechanical engineering, or product development within consumer electronics or another high-volume manufacturing industry.
- Proven experience leading complex industrialization projects from concept through mass production, with multiple suppliers and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Experience working with and managing external development, tooling, equipment, and manufacturing partners.
- Strong knowledge of plastic injection molding, MIM, die casting, stamping, forging, CNC machining, cosmetic and functional surface treatments, and automated assembly systems.
- Hands-on experience in DFM, DFMEA, Mold Flow Analysis, PPAP, DOE, SPC, MSA/GR&R, Cp/Cpk analysis, process validation, and production-readiness reviews.
- Experience with equipment qualification, automation development, and high-volume manufacturing ramp-up is highly desirable.
- Proficiency in CAD and engineering simulation tools, preferably SolidWorks.
- Strong project-management and program-execution skills, with the ability to manage priorities under aggressive timelines.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder-management, influencing, and interpersonal skills across international and cross-functional teams.
- Strong analytical, structured problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities.
- Strategic and innovative thinker with a proactive, results-oriented, and continuous-improvement mindset.
- Ability to balance technical excellence with quality, cost, capacity, and schedule objectives.
- Fluent in written and spoken English.
- Tier-2 mechanical components and sub-assemblies are industrialized from concept through mass production with robust, scalable processes.
- Supplier, tooling, equipment, process, quality, and capacity readiness support EVT, DVT, PVT, and mass-production milestones.
- Industrialization risks are identified early, escalated clearly, and closed with verified corrective actions.
- Manufacturing solutions consistently achieve agreed quality, yield, capacity, cost, and schedule targets.
What We Offer
Our success depends on the talented people who come to work every day with a sense of purpose and an appetite for progress. Join PMI and you can:
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Seize the choice to define your future and ours. We’ll empower you to take risks, experiment and explore.
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Be part of an inclusive, diverse culture, where everyone’s contribution is respected; collaborate with people and feel like you belong.
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Pursue your ambitions and develop your skills with a global business – our staggering size and scale provides endless opportunities to progress.
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Take pride in delivering our promise to society: deliver a smoke-free future.
