Senior Process Engineering Manager

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Diversity - Innovation - Caring - Global Collaboration - Winning Spirit - High Performance

At Boston Scientific, we’ll give you the opportunity to harness all that’s within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we’ll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you’ll be supported in progressing – whatever your ambitions.

 
About the role:
As part of the Arden Hills Process Development team, this position’s primary responsibilities include leading a team of process engineers within the EPD group in advancing new products, processes, and technologies across one or more divisions with an emphasis on products manufactured in Arden Hills. 

 

You will oversee the development and management of the staff resources and processes required to ensure functional excellence and delivery of robust, scalable, high-quality manufacturing processes to divisional and operations customers. You will provide strategic input into departmental, divisional, and BSC plant network initiatives. 

 

You will be tasked with building, developing, and empowering a strong team capable of fulfilling multi-project and multi-customer needs for the business. This role will focus on building effective partnerships across functions and geographic locations to drive successful execution of key programs. 

 
Your responsibilities will include:

• Lead teams in the achievement of organizational and functional goals.  Guide, coach, direct, and develop direct reports, and if applicable, drive those practices throughout their organization.
• Coach and lead engineering teams to develop highly capable, scalable, and robust manufacturing test processes. Establish goals for scope of test system, cycle time, capacity, and other key metrics.
• Collaborate with R&D and Manufacturing teams to create innovative and manufacturable product designs.
• Ensure knowledge driven approach to process & product development, and that functional excellence is exhibited in all product and technology development projects.
• Drive technical projects of significant magnitude and scope. Work is expected to result in the delivery of new or refined technologies, products, processes, software, equipment, that enable growth in BSC’s portfolio in key strategic areas.
• Develop detailed work plans, budgets, objectives, schedules, project estimates, resource plans, and status reports. Monitor & troubleshoot performance and schedule issues, support & enable team to achieve objectives.
• Make decisions regarding work processes or operational plans and schedules to achieve department objectives.
• Recruit, coach, develop organizational talent.
• May be responsible for providing direction and/or guidance to exempt specialists and/or supervisory staff who exercise significant latitude and independence in their assignments.  May supervise non-exempt employees.
• Create an inclusive, high-performance, entrepreneurial environment.
• Foster a diverse workplace that enables all participants to contribute to their full potential in pursuit of organizational objectives.
• Keep the organization's vision and values at the forefront of decision making and action.
• Demonstrate effective change leadership.
• Build strategic partnerships and effectively collaborate cross-functionally to further departmental and organizational objectives.
• Ensure compliance to company policies & procedures, and regulatory compliance to GMP’s of all medical device regulatory agencies (e.g. FDA, BSI, ISO, EEO, MDR).
• Establish and support a work environment of continuous improvement that supports BSC’s Quality Policy, Quality System and the appropriate regulations for the area they support. Ensure all employees are trained to do their work and their training is documented.

 

Required qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline w/ 7+ years related work experience

or 

• Master’s degree in an engineering discipline w/ 5+ years of related experience
• 5+ years’ experience in leading and developing a technical engineering group.

 

Preferred qualifications:

• Team oriented approach to projects that drives collaboration & execution across the business.
• Experience in developing and transferring manufacturing processes and/or sustaining production equipment/lines.
• Track record of developing strong partnerships with multiple customers simultaneously
• Demonstrated competency in leading teams in the development of complex technical solutions from concept to commercialization.
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