Staff Manufacturing Engineer

About Company

Mizuho OSI is the leader in the markets for specialty surgery and patient positioning. The company’s portfolio includes specialty surgical tables for procedure-specific approaches that improve patient outcomes in spine and orthopedic surgeries along with disposable and reusable surgical patient care products.

Job Summary

The Senior Manufacturing Engineer designs, develops, implements and maintains manufacturing processes for new products, product changes, and enhancements. Facilitates the supply, manufacture, assembly, and test activities with cost reduction and waste elimination as the key drivers. Contributes to the intellectual property position of the company via invention and patent application. Works with the product development staff to ensure the manufacturability of new products and achieve cost targets by improving efficiency through the implementation of lean manufacturing methods. Provides support for the resolution of product complaints and/or safety issues.

Responsibilities:

• Maintain a continuing liaison relationship with R&D engineering, marketing, assembly, and quality functions to ensure readiness to meet commitments of new business and to ensure that production rates and product designs provide effective utilization of available manufacturing resources.
• Take ownership of new products during pilot production phase through successful and sustained project launch. This includes but is not limited to driving new product introduction schedules, escalating and resolving manufacturability issues.
• Design, qualify, document and introduce production and service assembly/test fixtures and equipment.
• Configure assembly processes, sequence of activities, and material handling toward lean manufacturing practices, supporting company goals. Plan and schedule projects in a manner consistent with corporate objectives.
• Identify and qualify outside vendors and consultants, as required. Maintain current knowledge of competitive technologies including medical, technical, manufacturing and material developments as related to company products.
• Conduct testing, utilizing new or existing test protocols, to ensure process capability.
• Maintain complete, accurate and timely manufacturing documentation including assembly, procedures, testing methods, packaging and labeling instructions, BOM, and others as required.
• Develop test plans and procedures dealing with material acquisition and substitution problems, as well as technical issues impacting shipments.
• Oversee the detailed manufacturing planning for each part and assembly. Specify BOM structure, methods, sequence of operations, shop routing, time standards, and tooling as required.
• Continually reduce product cost through design, process, procedure, and improve efficiency through the implementation of lean manufacturing methods.
• Optimize manufacturing costs, determine time standards, and make recommendations for tooling and process requirements of new or existing product lines.
• Work with production managers and engineers to support product enhancements from concept through the manufacturing process and finished product.
• Participate in material review board activities to analyze and disposition non-conforming materials and assemblies.
• Lead or participate in assigned initiatives focused on material cost reduction, capacity enhancement, outsourcing of assemblies, etc.
• Ensure product development plan is complete and properly implemented, ensuring manufacturing resources are properly directed during the entire product life cycle.
• Provide sustaining engineering support to production. Provide training and support to production staff such as Assemblers, Quality Control Inspectors, Leads, and Supervisors.
• Perform failure analysis and implement corrective action to improve production and quality.
• Recommend and report on production process improvements including efficiency, cycle time, downtime, first pass yield, resource utilization, ergonomic and other continuous improvement efforts.
• Participate in company safety committee and environmental programs as required.
• Domestic travel, as needed, to support supplier audits and other business needs, as necessary.
• Train and instruct other members o