Engineering Manager

Process Engineering Manager - AFIP / Flex Manufacturing

Full Time + Benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k with Company Match, PTO)

Job Type: On-site | 25% Travel
Salary Range: $145,000 - $175,000 DOE

Location:

Milpitas, CA

Fralock is an engineered solutions provider of specialty components and subassemblies using advanced materials for high reliability, severe environment, and technically challenging applications. We develop and manufacture custom integrated solutions. Established in 1967, we are a critical solutions provider to Fortune 500 corporations, government, and targeted OEMs in a variety of industries including Semiconductor Equipment Manufacturing, Medical and Life Science, Aerospace and Defense, Industrial, Electronics, and Energy.

Fralock is headquartered in Valencia, CA with manufacturing locations located throughout Northern and Southern California.

VISION

To be recognized by our customers as a leading solutions provider of proprietary engineered advanced materials for high reliability, severe environment, and technically challenging applications.

MISSION

To create value, profitably grow, and share our success with all stakeholders.

CULTURE

• Respect - We treat others the way they want to be treated.
• Integrity - We practice a high standard of ethics in our business dealings with customers, suppliers and employees.
• Responsiveness - We have a sense of urgency in responding to internal and external requests and work proactively to solve problems.
• Excellence/Competence - We empower our people to continuously improve and execute high quality work.
• Teamwork - We work together to achieve Fralock business objectives by communicating at a high level, by listening and having clarity in our expectations of one another.
• Individual Accountability and Personal Responsibility - We do what we have committed to do when we committed to doing it.
• Continuous Improvement across all segments of the company

This position requires access to information controlled under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) or the Export Administration Regulations (EAR), the successful candidate must be a "U.S. person" as defined in the ITAR and EAR (which generally means (i) be a citizen or national of the United States; or (ii) be a lawful permanent resident of the United States; or (iii) have been admitted to the United States as a refugee, or have been granted asylum, as specified under applicable law.

Job Scope:

This role supports Fralock's Advanced Flexible Interconnect Products (AFIP) business in Milpitas, focused on flex and rigid-flex circuit manufacturing and associated processes. Products are manufactured to customer specifications and frequently require strong interpretation of manufacturing drawings, stack-ups, plating requirements, QA standards, and IPC/UL requirements.

The Process Engineering Manager plays a key role in ensuring these customer requirements are translated into robust, well-controlled, and executable manufacturing processes.

Role Summary

The Process Engineering Manager provides technical leadership and people management for process engineering activities supporting high-mix, high-reliability flex and rigid-flex manufacturing. The role is responsible for process development, optimization, qualification, and sustainment, while leading and developing a team of process engineers.

This position requires strong engagement with manufacturing operations. The Process Engineering Manager is expected to maintain close connection to factory execution, enabling effective troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and timely resolution of process issues, while also driving longer-term process discipline, capability development, and continuous improvement.

Process Engineering Leadership

• Lead and develop process engineering capability supporting flex and rigid-flex manufacturing
• Establish clear priorities, accountability, and execution standards across the process engineering team
• Serve as a technical escalation point for complex processes, yield, or manufacturability challenges

AFIP Flex / Rigid-Flex Unit Process Ownership

• Own and improve key unit processes and process windows typical of flex and rigid-flex manufacturing (e.g., imaging/patterning, plating, lamination/press operations, drilling/routing, and related steps)
• Develop, standardize, and sustain process controls to improve yield, cycle time, repeatability, and robustness
• Partner with Manufacturing and Production Control to support schedule adherence and improve time-to-release and on-time engineering release

Process Development, Qualification & Transfer

• Develop and release new manufacturing processes and tooling, supporting implementation on the factory floor
• Lead process transfer to Manufacturing through defined gates, including process limits, specifications, control plans, work instructions, and training
• Support NPI readiness by translating customer requirements into clear, executable process flows and travelers

Manufacturability, Quoting & Risk Assessment

• Partner with Operations and…