Engineer 2, Product Lifecycle

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Position Summary:
Be part of a highly dynamic and competent Engineering Team who is responsible to meet the quality, productivity and cost targets in a high volume, multi-product and life science regulated environment through developing effective world class engineering solutions.

Process/Product Lifecycle Engineer 2 serves an important role in ensuring that the product is transferred, manufactured and delivered at the utmost quality to the customer. The individual will interact extensively with other departments such as research and development, manufacturing, tooling, facilities, supply chain and quality assurance to develop processes for new products, sustain and improve processes for existing products.

Position Responsibilities:

- Sustain the production line to ensure Safety, Availability, Quality, Cost and Compliance (SAQCC) targets are met.
- Drive advanced failure analysis, root cause identification and corrective actions for product quality concerns and/or issues during manufacturing and NPI ramp.
- Analyzes field quality data, construct and execute design of experiments to identify areas for prevention and improved detection
- Lead process or issue technical deep dive, characterization and First Principle understanding towards long term preventive and corrective measures.
- Experience with using engineering tools and software packages (eg R, JMP, etc) to test, design and evaluate products and manufacturing margins.
- Proactively drives process improvement activities through FMEA, DOE & Six Sigma etc. to ascertain and recommend improvement to processes or test methods.
- Ability to interpret test result and correlate results with product failure performance
- Work closely with R&D to develop Design-for-Manufacturing (DFM) processes for NPI, leveraging learning from existing products and provides feedback on material component selection and associated test plans.
- Listed responsibilities are an essential, but not exhaustive list, of the usual duties associated with the position. Changes to individual responsibilities may occur due to business needs._

Position Requirements:

- Core Technical Leadership - Demonstrates leadership in the development of technical innovations and in ensuring optimum collaboration and knowledge sharing of technical insights.
- Project Leadership & Troubleshooting - Actively works to resolve project challenges and facilitate knowledge transfer between team members focused on shared objectives.
- Technical Breadth/Depth - Demonstrates motivation to build deeper technical depth in area-of-expertise, and inform that knowledge base through understanding of associated areas.
- Customer-Centric Focus - Ensures that a positive customer experience informs both the approach to work, the quality demonstrated, and the endpoint for measuring success.
- Thought Leadership - Understands how businesses operate and uses this context to drive innovation and ethical decision-making.
- Change Management - Develops methods for supporting innovation and change across the organization.
- Problem Solving - Approaches problems in a rational manner using sound strategies that ensure comprehensive understanding and effective resolution.
- All listed requirements are deemed as essential functions to this position; however, business conditions may require reasonable accommodations for additional task and responsibilities._

Preferred Experience/Education/Skills:

- Typically requires a minimum of 2 years of related experience with a Master’s/Bachelor’s Degree; or equivalent work experience.
- Experience in FDA-regulated environment is a plus.
- Knowledge about laser welding/cutting and surface chemistry will be an added advantage.
- Possess good understanding of manufacturing process, methodologies, and environment.
- Capable of defining test plans for components, materials, and systems
- Skilled in failure analysis of multiple reliability failure modes
- Excellent Analytical, Problem Solving and Project Management skills.
- Good understanding of Quality Assurance and Process Control Knowledge.
- Excellent team player, interpersonal and communication skill.
- Able to work well under stress, both internally and across functions and perform multitasking.
- Proactive, innovative, and self-motivating.

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