Senior Industrial Engineer

Working Location: MINNESOTA, BROOKLYN PARK 

Workplace Flexibility: Onsite

 

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Job Description

The position holder leads the planning, strategy, and execution for industrial engineering for Single Use Endoscopes (SUE) product and process development and launch.

The position holder develops and improves the industrialization plans for the product in partnership with manufacturing engineering, equipment engineering, and production teams, according to product and process requirements to ensure that manufacturing production will be safe, efficient, reliable, and scalable for volume manufacturing.

Job Duties

• Establish plans and complete industrialization activities to meet project goals including specification development, line layout, ergonomics evaluation, cycle time optimization and line balancing, and facility requirements.
• Develop and collaborate for project status reporting, proactively identifying, resolving, and presenting any issues that may impact the team’s ability to meet key goals.
• Collaborate in the development of capable production processes that meet operational objective with Manufacturing Engineering and Equipment Engineering within Operations as well as other functions.
• Partner with production to ensure the voice of operations is incorporated into product and process design. Facilitate effective hand over to manufacturing production teams.
• Evaluate all available internal and external Operational SUE Product launch for manufacturing layout, work content, and efficiencies for meeting demand. Select and implement appropriate technologies that result in lower manufacturing cost, lower process variability and higher manufacturing capability.
• Simulate manufacturing workflows to down select options for process development and optimize production flow.
• Works with other functions to standardize, leverage and implement engineering tools and establish best-demonstrated practices
• Influence process design and development to ensure processes are industrialized.
• Provide coaching and mentorship to junior engineers as needed and where possible.
• All Other Essential Duties as directed.

Job Qualification

Required:

• B.S. degree in Engineering or equivalent.
• Minimum years of experience: 5+ years with a bachelors, 4+ with a masters, working in a manufacturing engineering or related role. Experience working in a regulated medical device environment is a strong plus.
• Experience working in a team setting bringing processes from development through validation.
• Expertise with the development of processes and related documentation. Strong good documentation practices (GDP) are required.
• Working knowledge of some or all core manufacturing engineering tools. For example: 6-sigma, FMEA, Risk Analysis, Process Mapping, Standard Work Instructions, Lean Manufacturing, Manufacturing Work Instruction Creation, DOE methods, Process Characterization,