Manufacturing Technician I

Job Description:

SUMMARY: Working under little to no supervision and following detailed verbal, written, and hands-on instructions. Manage a team of operators to meet productivity and quality goals by performing the following duties.

• Responsible for ensuring personal and company compliance with local and company regulations, policies and procedures for Health, Safety and Environmental compliance.
• Properly document activities in accordance with the best engineering practices, company procedures, and regulatory requirements (technical reports).
• Work with R&D/Design/Development/Transfer Engineers or Customers to understand the products to be produced.
• Responsible for cost effective manufacturing product/lines through the management of yield, material usage (BOM and consumables).
• Conducts engineering efforts to identify root cause analysis.
• Responsible for the development and implementation of standard manufacturing methods, process and efficiency improvements.
• Conducts engineering efforts to optimize medical component processing for manufacturing (time studies, working standards, process flows, etc).
• Conducts and documents time studies to establish performance standards.
• Analyzes and implements improvements to reduce product costs.
• Responsible for design/development of equipment, tools or fixtures that meets health, safety and environmental standards set by the company for manufacturing methods.
• Setups and validates production lines for manufacturing as applicable.
• Supports or leads product transfers, and new product introductions
• Builds business relationship with customer and/or suppliers.

• Investigate, respond and solve quality issues, or provides supports for that process as required.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE: Technical degree in engineering or related; and 2-3 years of related experience and/or training. Basic personal computer skills including electronic mail, word processing, spreadsheet and graphics.

• Knowledge on Quality and Medical Regulations (focus Process Validation, traceability, manage or quality issues, risk management)
• Technical skills in manufacturing processes and methods including tooling, work flow, layout, assembly and production equipment. Is able to became a SME and is able to train others.
• OPEX -Basic Quality Tools: 5S, Kaizen, Pareto, Ishikawa, Control Charts, Checklist, Histograms
• Provides updates in an structure manner.
• Ability to work under pressure
• Teamwork
• Accountability
• Attention to detail.