Field Application Engineer

TTM Technologies, Inc. is a leading global manufacturer of technology products, including printed circuit boards. The Field Application Engineer is responsible for providing technical support to customers' PCB design and manufacturing groups, collaborating with designers to improve design quality and manufacturability, and facilitating communication between TTM and its customers.

Responsibilities:

• Provide DFM (Design for Manufacturing) and DFV (Design for Value) support to customer engineering and design teams for new designs and existing design improvement with a focus on reducing customers design cycle time
• Collaborate with customer designers to improve quality and completeness of their design packages and help them by identifying design problems related to manufacturability and reliability test
• Support drawing reviews prior to design release and help architect drawing notes to support the specific design and manufacturing needs
• Thorough knowledge of industry specification (IPC) requirements as well as customer developed specifications requirements
• Update customer design and manufacturing groups on TTM capabilities and technology roadmap through formal presentations
• Provide TTM manufacturing facilities insight into future customer needs, technology requirements and identify gaps in TTMs ability to support those future needs. Facilitate customer technical needs with TTM engineering and operations
• Assist TTM site pre-production teams through the stack-up/DFM/TQ approval process and in getting “on-hold” issues addressed on the customer side expeditiously
• Thorough understanding of TTM manufacturing and design capabilities and value add offerings to support QTA/NPI/Production Manufacturing for Aerospace & Defense customers
• Establish technical contacts between customer and TTM to drive improved lines of technical communications and increased depth of relationships
• Assist the Sales Account Managers in increasing customer revenue by providing technical support and service
• Travel to and visit customer sights to support technical discussions, issues, and key programs as required
• Create and conduct technical capability presentations in conjunction with the sales team
• This position will interface regularly with TTM’s Sales, Development, Pre-Production Engineering departments, and Operations, and it is essential that the employee be able to effectively balance the communication channels between these departments

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or related discipline
• 5-7+ years of experience in engineering activities related to PCB manufacturing
• Intermediate level skills using PCB CAM software
• Drawing / blueprint interpretation skills
• Use of PCB stack-up tools
• Minimum level experience of electrical design performance and signal integrity (Impedance, RF, and Insertion loss)
• Proficient with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Microsoft Project
• Travel for customer visits and TTM North American sites required up to 25% of the time
• Thorough knowledge of industry specification (IPC) requirements as well as customer developed specifications requirements
• Strong printed circuit engineering background and knowledge of entire PCB manufacturing process including process flows, individual processing steps, and pre-production tooling
• Ability to establish contacts and build relationships with customers to drive improved communication and partnership
• Strong written and oral communication skills and the ability to work well with customers design groups
• Self-motivated and willing to work with minimum supervision
• Effective public speaking and presentation skills