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Technical Program Manager, Camera Components

Apple· Hardware
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Minato, Tokyo, JapanFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Lead technical, operational, factory, and quality efforts for camera components (substrates, flexure, VCM) from NPI through ramp and sustaining lifecycles. On-site factory leadership across Eastern Asia, coordinating with camera module design, process teams, and sub-component vendors to resolve issues and ensure scalable production.

Responsibilities

  • Be involved at product concept to ensure products are manufacturable and conduct design for manufacturability reviews. Build in constant design improvement for product quality, factory efficiency and product cost.
  • Approve vendor process, process flow and automation equipment design
  • Manage new process introduction and special projects, such as new testers.
  • Deep dive into machine and process design for high precision manufacturing assembly
  • Innovate factory processes, concepts, and design to enable an ideal manufacturing process
  • Collaborate with quality teams to review and approve quality control plans (tests, methods, sample sizes, pass/fail criteria). Ensure cosmetic standards are aligned with module integrator.
  • Audit and approve manufacturers for mass production (MP) readiness.
  • Contribute to release reviews and verify that all Technical, Operational and Quality aspects are ready to ramp.
  • Lead resolution of component related design or process issues in component fab, back-end processing, transit and module integrator.
  • Monitor and report yield, manufacturing metrics (CpK, FMEA etc.). Drive improvement programs as appropriate.
  • Collaborate with Hardware engineering teams on optimizing component designs and processes
  • Drive overall program and factory readiness for the technology and mass production
  • Implement AI and Machine Learning techniques into factory processes to better streamline data collection and analysis
  • Continuous operational improvement with yearly initiatives.
  • Vendor management through good communication and strong leadership presence on site
  • Work closely with engineering teams to drive MP-suitable NPI development.
  • Foster the technical excellence and continuous improvement of the organization and team, proactively supporting, mentoring, and enabling the success of others.
  • Maintain deep expertise as SME for some technical area, providing leadership and guidance in complex problem-solving and technical decision-making in addition to the standard TPM skill set.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years relevant experience in Manufacturing: Product Engineering, Process Engineering, Automation Engineering, or Program Management.
  • BS/MS in Mechanical Engineering or allied technical subject.
  • Strong technical skills, involving problem solving and issue root causing in a pressured environment.
  • Strong knowledge in process control methodologies (PFMEA, DFMEA, etc)
  • Ability to manage full product line from start to finish, NPI to MP.
  • In-depth understanding of assembly processes and development (dispense, precision pick & place, SMT, etc.)
  • Strong technical skills, involving problem solving and issue root causing in a pressured environment utilizing Design of Experiments (DOE) and other statistical analysis using Six Sigma principles
  • Willingness and ability to travel frequently to vendor factories across Eastern Asia, with on-site presence expected as a core part of the role.
  • Flexible working during evening and weekends by taking compensation off later, and also can accommodate international travel up to 30%.
  • Language skills: Japanese, English proficiency

Skills

Required:Problem solving and root cause analysisDesign of Experiments (DOE) / Six SigmaProcess control methodologiesNPI to MP product lifecycle managementCommunication and leadershipGD&T and tolerance analysis
Nice to have:Data analysis tools (JMP, Tableau)AI/ML in manufacturing

Benefits

  • Not specified in the description
Last updated Aug 28, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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