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Fictiv Exists to Enable Hardware Innovators to Build Better Products, Faster
Fictiv exists to help product innovators create.
Fictiv is a global manufacturing and supply chain company that enables organizations to scale globally across Fictiv’s four global manufacturing centers in India, Mexico, China, and the U.S.. Companies use Fictiv to access high-quality production, optimize supply chain logistics, and mitigate supply chain risk—ensuring they can move from prototype to full-scale manufacturing with speed and confidence. To date, Fictiv has delivered more than 35 million commercial and prototype parts for industries such as aerospace, robotics, automotive, climate tech, and more, helping them innovate faster, free up precious resources, and drive profitable growth.
What’s in it for you?
Opportunity To Unlock Your Creativity
Think of all the times you were held back from trying new ideas because you were boxed in by bureaucratic legacy processes or old school tactics. Having a growth mindset is deeply ingrained into our company culture since day 1 so Fictiv is an environment where you have the creative liberty and support of the team to try big bold ideas to achieve our sales and customer goals.
Opportunity To Grow Your Career
Fictiv, you'll be surrounded by supportive teammates who will push you to be your best through their curiosity and passion.
Impact In This Role
Your role as a Manufacturing Engineer will be to support and drive improvement to our critical manufacturing functions. We have two sets of customers—our builders, who order parts through us, and our manufacturing partners, who manufacture and assemble these parts—and you’ll be consistently working at the interface between the two. At Fictiv, we believe in creating the world’s premier platform for hardware manufacturing, and you’ll be playing a critical role in making that happen.
In your role as the Manufacturing Engineer, you will be reviewing and analyzing the manufacturability and costs associated with CNC machining submitted by our builders. In this role, you’ll also be using your Mechanical Engineering background and knowledge of manufacturing processes in order to determine what design changes may need to be made to our builders’ design specifications in order to meet their needs. By developing highly competitive proposals and quotations that meet the requirements called out by our customers, you will be assisting in bringing products to market faster in a wide range of industries (and helping to accelerate Fictiv’s growth)
You will report to the Costing and DFM lead.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Package review - Study the package provided by Sales to determine scope of work, manufacturing feasibility & Lead time details
- Should be able to define best suited manufacturing process, machine selection, cycle time calculations & setup costs
- Should be able to generate Should cost using in house calculators & Fictiv's software recommendations
- Manufacturing Partners quote scrutiny. To check whether the provided quote is correct in terms of optimized raw material, machining & secondary processes costs
- Should be able to negotiate with Manufacturing partners on quotes provided and get the best costs out to ensure a win win situation
- Should be able to understand secondary process eg Anodising, Zinc plating, Chemical conversion coatings with respect to their type, class, service class, methods etc
- Preparing RFQ package to Manufacturing Partners referring to capability & capacity plans
- Calculator Generations - Use own machining expertise & understanding of process cost drivers to develop cost calculators
- DFx Feedback - Should be able to study the 3D Model, 2D prints to determine the manufacturability of the part & highlight key points that involve a design change recommendation
- Automation Feedback - Provide feedback to Quoting SOftware team to improve accuracy of automated quoting of our manufacturing services
- Packaging costs - Should be able to develop packaging concept & provide the same to Logistics team for generating Shipping costs
- Follow up with Sales for Quoted RFQ's feedback on weekly basis & also provide feedback to Manufacturing partners about quoted RFQ's status
- Work with CFT in evaluating value deals for project management validation, project de risking, quality documentation
- Should be able to handle Assembly product structure
- Help clear technical queries during MP Quoting
- Maintaining reports for Opportunities quoted won/lost, conversion ratio etc
- Participate in Manufacturing Partners QBR with CFT to address cost issues, conversion ratios etc
Desired Traits
- 6-8 years of relevant work experience
- Meticulous, detail oriented, inclination for documentation
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English required
- Self-starter, manages time efficiently, able to complete work in a timely manner without active supervision
- Enjoys sharing knowledge and teaching others about manufacturing processes
- 4-year Mechanical Engineering degree
- 3D model & 2D print review with good proofreading capabilities
- 5, 4, 3 Axis Milling, Turn Milling, Grinding, Gear hobbing, Spark & wire EDM, Gun Drilling processes
- Strong GD & T background
- CNC machines specifications/technical data
- CNC programming for milling & turning
- Turning & Rotating tools selection , grades of inserts for turning & Milling, Insert specification
- Work holding devices for CNC Turning & Milling centers
- Recommended cutting conditions for work materials classified by ISO
- Materials (Chemical compositions, Mechanical & Thermal properties) : Stainless steel, carbon steel, alloy steel, aluminum alloys, Tool steel Titanium plastics and their associated ASTM, ISO, IS, DIN & MIL standards.
- Heat treatment : Normalizing, Tempering, Annealing, Case hardening, & Quenching
- Secondary processes : Anodising, chemical conversion coatings, Zinc plating, Nickel plating, tin plating, Bead blasting & their associated standards eg MIL , ASTM , ISO
- Secondary processes : Painting & Powder coating
- Inspection instruments & methods to help improve DFM feedback
- PPAP documentation
- ISO 9001 : 2015 Documentation
- AS9100D documentation
- Proficient written & oral communication skills
- Excel & Google sheet expertise
- Undergone training on cutting tools through Sandvik, Kennametal etc
- Production costing background
- Packaging estimation : concept to development
Interested in learning more? We look forward to hearing from you soon.
Fictiv is transforming how the next rockets, self-driving cars, and life-saving robots are designed, developed, and delivered to customers around the world. People who succeed at Fictiv are talented, creative, and driven to achieve professional excellence and support our vision to help product innovators create.
We’re actively seeking teammates who:
- Bring diverse perspectives and experience to our culture and company.
- Excel at being part of a strong, empathetic team.
- Thrive in an environment emphasizing respect, honesty, collaboration, and growth.
- Have an ‘always learning’ mindset that celebrates learning, not just wins.
- Help us continue to build a world-class organization that values the contributions of all of our teammates
We encourage applications from members of underrepresented groups, including but not limited to women, members of the LGBTQ community, people of color, people with disabilities, and veterans.
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