Western Digital

Makes hard drives for cloud and AI data centers

Manufacturing Automation & Tooling

Manufacturing EngineeringPosted on Nov 10

Full-timeAmphoe Bang Pa-in, ThailandNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

A bachelor's degree in Engineering (Mechatronics, Mechanical, Electrical, or Electronics), Science, or a related field.
At least 2 years of experience with a bachelor's degree.
Knowledge of statistical process control (SPC), lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, FMEA+, and 8D is an added advantage.
Knowledge of HDD manufacturing, electrostatic discharge (ESD), and contamination control is preferred.
Awareness of integrated management systems (IMS), business continuity management (BCM), safety, fire prevention, responsible business alliance (RBA), and sustainability is preferred.
Knowledge of continuous improvement and problem-solving tools, including Kaizen, lean, quality control circles (QCC), failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA), 8D, and basic statistics is preferred.
Knowledge of programmable logic controllers (PLC), automation, robotics, machine vision, sensors, pneumatics, and microcontrollers is preferred.
Knowledge of mechanical drawings and geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) is preferred.
Awareness of Industry 5.0 is preferred.
Computer literacy, including Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Minitab, and Spotfire.
Communication and presentation skills.
Written, listening, and verbal communication in English.
Tooling, jig, fixture, and automated-equipment troubleshooting.
PLC programming, human-machine interface (HMI) development, and control-system troubleshooting.
Python programming for automation, data analysis, equipment monitoring, and dashboard development.
Applications of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning for predictive maintenance, anomaly detection, and fault diagnosis.

Responsibilities

Provide technical support and troubleshooting for tooling and fixture maintenance, including containment actions and long-term solutions.
Maintain working knowledge of process flows, fixture piece-part configurations, and other assigned technical areas.
Operate using key indices such as Cpk, mean time between failures (MTBF), and mean time to repair (MTTR), and respond to abnormalities indicated by those indices.
Participate in product and technology transfers between work sites.
Upgrade and modify jigs and fixtures.
Provide technical training in specified areas to technicians and manufacturing personnel.
Provide supervision and guidance to the technical crew.
Train and control employee actions to minimize accidents and incidents causing injury or damage.
Liaise with vendors supplying tooling, fixture spares, and fixture components.
Ensure commonality and standardization for the same process or system across related manufacturing sites.
Analyze the responsible unit's work to identify risks or HIRAC in collaboration with EHS officers and managers, and mitigate those risks.
Participate in company activities such as ISO, 7S, EHS, RBA, BCM, and ZDM.
Maintain good housekeeping in the work area through 7S activities.
Comply with environmental health and safety policies to support workforce safety and environmental sustainability.
Consult with engineers and technicians.
Provide OCAP flow to support triggering systems and sustain operations.
Create, review, and revise tooling setups and related tooling procedures.
Set up and revise trigger limits and tooling downtime OCAP flows.

Job Description

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Provide technical support and troubleshooting services for tooling/fixture maintenance and to continue into containment action and long-term solutions.
Maintain a working knowledge or process flows, fixtures piece part configuration and any other assigned technical area.
Responsible for the operations using key indices tool as Cpk’s, MTBF, MTTR, and to react to any abnormalities displayed by those indices.
Participate in product and technology transfer between work sites.
To provide upgrading and modification capability for jigs and fixtures.
Provide technical training on the specified technical areas to technicians and manufacturing personnel.
Provide supervision and guidance to technical crew.
To adequately train and control the action of their employees so as to minimize accidents and incidents causing injury and damage.
To liaise with vendor supplying tooling/fixtures spares and fixtures components.
Other job assignment from supervisor and management.
Ensure commonality/standardization among same process/system within related manufacturing sites.
To analyze the work of the responsible unit to primarily find risks or HIRAC in collaboration with EHS officers and manager to mitigate risk.
Participate company activities such as ISO, 7S, EHS, RBA, BCM, ZDM, etc
Comply 7S activity to ensure working area is good housekeeping.
Comply with EH&S policy to ensure all workforce safety and sustain good environment.
Consult to Engineer level and Technician.
Provide OCAP flow to support triggering system and sustaining.
Authorization to create, review and revise Tooling setup and any tooling procedure relate.
Authorization to set up and revise trigger limit and Tools down time OCAP flow.

Qualifications

REQUIRED:

Degree in Engineering (Mechatronics/Mechanical / Electrical / Electronics), Science Degree or related field.
Bachelor's degree with 2+ yrs experience
Knowledge in SPC, Lean manufacturing, 6 Sigma, FMEA+, 8D will be an added advantage

PREFERRED:

HDD manufacturing, ESD, and contamination control knowledge
IMS, BCM, safety, fire prevention, RBA, and sustainability awareness
Continuous improvement and problem-solving tools: Kaizen, Lean, QCC, FMEA, 8D, and basic statistics
PLC, automation, robotics, machine vision, sensors, pneumatics, and microcontrollers
Mechanical drawings and GD&T knowledge
Industry 5.0 awareness

SKILLS:

Computer literate i.e., Microsoft office (Excel, Power point, Word), Minitab, Spotfire, etc.
Communication skill, Presentation skill.
Well communication in English written, listening and verbal.
Tooling, jig, fixture, and automated-equipment troubleshooting
PLC programming, HMI development, and control-system troubleshooting
Python programming for automation, data analysis, equipment monitoring, and dashboard development
AI and machine-learning applications for predictive maintenance, anomaly detection, and fault diagnosis

Additional Information

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About the Company

Western Digital

Makes hard drives for cloud and AI data centers

Western Digital, which goes by WD, designs and makes hard disk drives, mostly the high-capacity models that cloud and AI data centers use to store huge amounts of data cheaply. In 2013, its HGST unit shipped the first helium-filled hard drives, which fit more disks into each drive and use less power. Its drives store data on stacks of spinning magnetic disks, and the lineup runs from Ultrastar data center drives to WD Red and WD Purple drives for home servers and security cameras. WD makes its money selling these drives to cloud companies, PC makers, and retail shoppers. Western Digital was founded in 1970 and is based in San Jose, California, and in 2025 it spun off its flash memory business as Sandisk.

Company size: 10,001+
Company stage: IPO
Headquarters: San Jose, CA
Founded: 1970

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