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Onsite: About the Role: This position offers the opportunity to support process development and product commercialization throughout our cilent's global plant network. You will work cross-functionally to lead process development of complex technologies on new products, drive/develop new business activities and rapid prototyping execution and ensure efficient and effective transfer of products into production. We are looking for a highly motivated and driven individual that can solve complex, technical problems in both a hands-on manner and team setting. This opportunity will require you to work in a fast-paced environment across multiple functions in a global company. You will leverage technical and collaboration skills alongside passion for innovation and continuous improvement to drive growth through efficient and effective commercialization of new products and targeted improvements.
Your Responsibilities Will Include: • Partners with R&D to develop design specifications, draft test methods, and drive material selection. • Provides Design for Manufacturability (DFM) input to the engineering print package. • Applies technical knowledge to innovate, design, and develop processes, procedures, tooling and automation. • Contributes creative, innovative ideas and solutions to solve complex technical problems. • Proposes or investigates new technologies to pave a path for future business. • Oversees development builds as well as initial production builds associated with the project using special work requests (SWRs). • Trains and/or provides work direction to technicians and engineers and may train manufacturing personnel when required as part of a validation. • Assesses process capabilities, prioritizes process improvement opportunities, and innovates and implements process improvements on platform or derivative projects. • Prepares and presents technical data and recommendations to project stakeholders at technical reviews to influence business decisions. • Writes and reviews validation protocols and reports applicable to new processes. • Executes the functional deliverables associated with the PDP/TDP and Quality System. • Ensures proper documentation is completed to meet quality systems requirements (e.g. print package, drawing trees, BOMs, routers, PFMEAs, SWRs, process flowcharts, process characterization documentation, validation plans, process verification and validation documentation including TMV and OQ/PQ etc.). • Collaborates with operations counterparts in manufacturing engineering and quality engineering to prepare for product transfer from development to production for commercialization.
What Were Looking For In You: Minimum Qualifications • BS in Engineering and 2-4 years of experience. • Strong engineering fundamentals, conflict resolution experience, and problem-solving skills. • Demonstrated ability to develop and drive creative, innovative solutions for both processes and products. • Demonstrated cross-functional teamwork and collaboration in a technically demanding environment. • Strong communication and time management skills. • Open to travel up to 10% of the time which may include vendor visits, supplier visits, or conferences. Preferred Qualifications • Experience developing and characterizing various types of extruded processes such as free extrusion, over the core, coextrusion, over braid, reel to reel, multi-lumen, and bump extrusion. • Experience working with polymers - particularly Pebax, Nylon, PEEK, Urethanes. • Familiarity with how extrusion inputs can impact outputs. • Demonstrated ability to develop equipment / fixtures from concept to prototype to production. • Demonstrated use of DFSS tools (DOE, problem solving). • Experience with mechanical design, automation and controls, and programming. • Strong understanding of statistics and experience using statistical analysis software tools. • Medical device or other regulated industry experience including an understanding of the quality system. • Experience as a technical project lead or responsibilities such as coordinating teams, encouraging cross-functional collaboration, and implementing risk mitigation strategies.
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About Advantage TechnicalWith company roots going back over 30 years, Advantage Technical is an engineering and information technology services company and a national leader in the provision of technical resources today. These services include Staff Augmentation, Direct Placement, Project Resourcing and Outsourcing – delivered from 40 key market locations, by over 3500 specialized contractors, to over 500 clients across North America. Advantage Technical is a Best of Staffing Diamond Award winner for both Clients and Talent. For more information about the industries and services offered by Advantage Technical, please visit AdvantageTechnical.com.
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