System/product Manufacturing Engineer

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Improves products, processes and components to meet agreed-upon objectives. May redesign products or components to meet cost objectives, component technology obsolescence and customer requirements. Participates actively in new product introduction, including influencing the design of the product to ensure manufacturability and conformance with the global supply chain, enabling prototyping while in the R&D lab, testing the reliability of prototypes and managing the transition into production. Supports and implements the transition of products and manufacturing processes from prototype to full production and through the entire life cycle of the product. Partners with procurement and technical services to improve/sustain products and processes. May direct the work of third party vendors and/or partners to meet contract specified deliverables, performance or business objectives. May work with suppliers to ensure achievement of goals for cost, quality and delivery of parts and materials. May identify and manage ERP data such as bill of material and routing.

Agilent’s Life Sciences Group (LSG) is creating the tools and technologies that are changing the way we understand the world of our customer. Through a comprehensive set of lab productivity and total workflow solutions, LSG helps scientist advance basic research unlock the genetic causes of disease and accelerate the discovery and development of new drugs. Agilent’s life sciences business addresses the needs of academic, institutional and pharmaceutical scientists in the areas of genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, bioinformatics, and pharmaceutical analysis. LSSU’s instruments, advice, software and services solutions optimize our customers’ workflows in the collection, purification, detection, quantification, characterization and production of DNA, RNA, proteins, other organic molecules and their metabolites.

System/Product Test Engineer takes the product ownership within Order Fulfillment, and is responsible for managing product performance; developing manufacturing and test processes for new product introduction; resolving internal and external quality issues on a daily basis to ensure on time delivery of highest quality product; Proactively driving continuous improvement in the areas of responsibility to improve process efficiency and reduce manufacturing cost.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Manage Product Quality and Performance (quality, delivery and cost of testing). Lead cross functional team to drive continuous product and quality performance improvement ie. factory yield of product, DEFOA, warranty/Annual Failure Rate and production efficiency.
- Participate in new product development and responsible for the development of product manufacturing processes and procedures for tests at system level to optimize test time and troubleshooting time
- Provide technical support on day-to-day product issues: As the technical owner of the instrument, provide technical support to all product related issue, which include customer quality issues, production line trouble shooting, product/part/process change validation, etc.
- Maintain compliance to quality standards through proper execution of test methods, procedures, training, qualification etc.
- May be assigned as the technical leader on projects for new or current product engineering and improvement ie. equipment and test enhancement, NPI, product transfer, Value Engineering Projects or CPE (current product engineering) projects.
- Support and implement the transition of products and manufacturing processes from prototype to full production (NPI) and through the entire life cycle of the product. including influencing the design of the product to ensure manufacturability and conformance with the global supply chain.
- Collaborate with procurement and material engineering in sourcing activities by ensuring that the product requirements are clearly specified and met according to the design of the product.
- Other tasks and responsibilities assigned by manager in support of business needs.

**Job Requirements**:

- 4-6 years of relevant experiences on LCMS and GCMS. Those who have above 6 years of relevant work experience or fresh graduates are welcome to apply
- Experience with process characterization and validation using tools such as Cp/Cpk, and Design of Experiments techniques have added advantage.
- Experience in product test methodology, test software and tester development are advantageous.
- Experience in mass spectrometry working principle and knowledge, vacuum system, electronics and test is desirable.

**Desired Traits & Behaviours**
- Strong team player with good interpersonal skill and excellent collaboration, oral and written communication skills
- Self-starter and proven track record of results in setting, implementing complex engineering projects and achieving the goals and demonstrated levels of creativity.
- Passion