Production Development Specialist

Production Development Specialist

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This is a position with grade

15

This position reports to

Production Engineering Specialist

Your role and responsibilities

In this role, you will have the opportunity to optimize the Production organization's assembly methods, processes, and equipment to minimize labor hours in accordance with business strategies related to quality, efficiency, costs, and safety. Each day, you will ensure appropriate production methods, cycle time, equipment performance, and materials/components in support of production targets. You will also showcase your skills by defining the working phase sequence of a new production process to align with the targeted product cost and equipment investment budget.

The work model for the role is: #LI - Onsite

This role is contributing to the Electrification in Smart Buildings

You will be mainly accountable for:

• Identifying and recommending improvement opportunities and implements improvement projects, ensuring adherence to timeframe, quality, and cost requirements.

• Approving the design for processes developed internally or externally and performing final tests with respect to the project.

• Providing support to Production during the internal/external process/equipment start-up, defining action plans and training relevant maintenance and production resources.

• Evaluating new process technologies to improve productivity, quality, and cost reduction, coordinating testing activities, approval criteria, and external provider choices.

Qualifications for the role

- You are highly skilled in press tool development, 3D modeling, sheet metal manufacturing processes, and industrialization of low-voltage switchgear parts—from design optimization to production handover.
- You have 6+ years of experience in manufacturing engineering, with specialized skills in tool and die design, part cost estimation, and executing projects that meet productivity, cost, and timeline targets.
- You are highly adept in CAD 2D/3D platforms such as Creo and AutoCAD, as well as enterprise tools like SAP and Windchill for managing design data and process documentation.
- You are committed to lean manufacturing, process documentation, and continuous improvement, and bring proficient skills in PFMEA, control plans, SOPs, and process audits.
- You have a diploma in engineering with in-depth knowledge of engineering materials, their processing, applications, and properties, along with familiarity with ISO 8015, GD&T, and part metrology.
- You are highly skilled in communicating in English and demonstrate a collaborative mindset with a keen willingness to share knowledge, an engaged attitude, and a commitment to innovation and problem-solving.
- You enjoy working with cross-functional teams in the low-voltage switchgear industry, shaping design for manufacturability, optimizing material usage, and ensuring process robustness through automation and deskilling solutions.

More about us

"ABB Smart Buildings enables optimization of energy efficiency, safety, security and comfort for any building type, through new installations or retrofit solutions. The Division offers integrated digital technologies to control HVAC, lighting, shutters, and security, in addition to energy distribution solutions including DIN rail products, enclosures and emergency lighting through to industrial plugs and sockets and conventional wiring accessories, accommodating for single family homes, multiple dwellings, commercial buildings, infrastructure and industrial applications. The Division's highly innovative technologies and digital solutions serve rising global demand among real estate developers, owners, and investors for smart building technologies that optimize energy distribution and building automation. The scalable solutions aim to deliver significant sustainable and financial benefits, meeting social and environmental demands, while being able to address even the most complex of customers' carbon reduction strategies."

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