Overview:
The Manufacturing Engineer 1 is responsible for providing technical support for the day-today production activities in the manufacture of custom, plastic components used in the assemblies of various medical devices.
Responsibilities:
• Provides process support for extrusion department
• Hands-on position with visibility on the manufacturing floor
• Requires a high level of interaction with the production, product development, and quality teams
• Supports product development activities, continuous improvement, complaint resolution, CAPA investigations and other quality initiatives
• Supports production departments’ manufacturing issues with technical support as the process expert.
Uses strong reasoning and problem-solving skills to investigate and analyze complex problems to determine root cause and implement innovative solutions to prevent recurrence
• Supports and drives continuous improvement activities in the manufacturing department to improve operational performance.
Leads technical aspect of process validation projects
• Assist product development teams with design for manufacturability requirements on new products.
Supports new capital equipment and tooling purchases with appropriate documentation and evaluation
• Manages multiple technically oriented projects through coordinating internal and external resources
• Collaborates on product complaint resolution
Qualifications:
• High School Diploma with applicable experience is required; Bachelor’s degree in Engineering/Plastics Engineering preferred
• 3+ years of extrusion process development experience
• 5+ years of work related to polymer processing preferred
• Process validation (IQ, OQ, PQ) preferred
• Equipment qualification (IQ, OQ, PQ) preferred
• Fundamental understanding engineering principles
• Extrusion process development / Extrusion Tooling Design
• Mechanical aptitude preferred
• Understanding of ISO 13485:2016 preferred
• CFR, FDA, OSHA, environmental regulations preferred
• Proficiency at using Microsoft Office applications
• Troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Equipment / process troubleshooting preferred
• Experience with blue print reading preferred
• Design of Experiments / Six Sigma preferred
Physical Requirements:
• May exert up to 20 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects
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