Viking Enterprise Solutions has a rich history of leadership in providing storage and storage server platforms to hyper scale and enterprise data centers worldwide. The division leads the market with ultra-high capacity and high-end flash systems. Viking Enterprise Solutions provides advanced data center products including solid-state memory and disk-based storage server appliances, JBOD storage systems and related products for a variety of data center and storage applications. Viking Enterprise Solutions products are tailored for integration into OEM, System Integrator and data center products.

Due to our continued success and growth, Viking Enterprise has an opportunity for a Manager of Engineering Operations. This is an opportunity to join the Viking team for an exciting career on the cutting edge in data storage product and server product design.

Manager of Engineering Operations

Job Purpose:

In this broad ranging role, the Manager of Engineering Operations works within a team responsible for product development of innovative data storage and server product designs in Colorado Springs. The Manager of Engineering Operations will be responsible for leading a cross-functional team responsible for supporting our design engineering organization. This position plays a crucial role in ensuring the ongoing success of our growing business unit. This team includes manufacturing test development, Agile and PDM tool administration, Quality operations, Regulatory and Compliance testing, Component Engineering and Manufacturing Engineering

Nature of Duties/Responsibilities:

• Lead a team supporting the development engineering organization within VES
• Provide leadership to the manufacturing test development team to ensure that our products are properly tested in accordance with the best industry practices and expectations of our tier1 OEM customers
• Provide day to day leadership to the team members responsible for managing our Agile PDM system
• Lead and contribute to process flow definition and maintenance for all aspects of our manufacturing operations (PCBA through system)
• Lead the Quality engineering organization and ensure that our quality monitoring and reporting methods and quality standards and practices are in line with industry leading quality practices
• Provide oversight to the regulatory and compliance test team
• Provide leadership to our component engineering team
• Provide leadership to the manufacturing engineering team and ensure our manufacturing processes are in line with best industry practices
• Collaborate with cross functional development teams to ensure product design supports industry accepted manufacturing processes
• Continuously drives improvements in MFG test yield, process times, MFG quality and overall team efficiency
• Support customer escalations as needed
• Support Operations teams as needed
• Provide support to development engineering teams as required
• Support limited design efforts as required
• Actively contribute and support New Product Introductions (NPI) within the organization
• Actively participate in specifying and managing the development of ICT fixtures
• Support DFx activities as required

Education and Experience:

• BS degree in engineering, computer science, operations management or related field
• 10 years of relevant industry experience 
• At least 3 years of experience working in a Manufacturing Operations leadership role
• At least 3 years of experience leading NPI activities on complex electronic products
• Excellent understanding of Manufacturing test processes and best practice
• Excellent understanding of manufacturing and design Quality processes and best practice
• Working knowledge of BOM structures and Agile PDM workflows, processes and administration
• Working knowledge of regulatory and compliance testing, with an emphasis on factory compliance
• Working knowledge of component engineering fundamentals, requirements and process flows
• Excellent understanding of manufacturing engineering and process flows with an emphasis on PCBA through completed assembly
• Working knowledge of basic PCB fabrication process and PCBA assembly work flows

Preferred Education and Experience:

• Working understanding of server, storage server or storage product products
• Experience leading off-shore teams in India and Asia (Taiwan/China)
• PMP certification
• Understanding of basic server interfaces to include PCIe, SAS, SATA, NVMe
• Working understanding of SES, BMC, BIOS and Networking protocols
• Working knowledge of various OS (Linux, Windows, Unix etc.)
• Working understanding of signal integrity concepts and trade-offs
• Working knowledge of power, packaging and cooling trade-offs for electro-mechanical systems
• Manufacturing and operations support of similar products

Salary range: $126,000-$160,000

In addition, Sanmina Provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.

Sanmina is an Equal Opportunity Employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity

This is an ITAR facility and applicant must be a US Citizen or a lawful Permanent Resident