Associate Manager (Manufacturing Engineering)

Associate Manager (Manufacturing Engineering)

Permanent 

About Heraeus

Making displays foldable? Helping hearts beat with medical innovations? Or breathing new life into precious metals? As a family-owned global technology group we help our customers to always being one step ahead.

About Heraeus Medevio

Together we improve lives. At Heraeus Medevio, we bring lifesaving and life-changing medical devices to market through partnerships with medical device manufacturing companies. Backed by Heraeus Group, we are committed to the growth of our teams and organization by providing an open space for open minds.

To reach our vision of improving 100 million lives every year, we foster a culture of curiosity that thrives on challenge, continuous learning, growth, and the opportunity to try new things. With sites in the United States, European Union, and Asia, and over 2,200 employees worldwide, together, we will meet tomorrow's challenges today.

JOB PURPOSE

Lead product and process engineering area assuring the production sustainability, validation, and improvement, ensuring that production runs normally according to quality regulation and have more efficient processes.

Execute and lead manufacturing engineering actions, process validations, projects and investigations assuring the sustaining of production lines according to quality compliance regulations.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead and coordinate the engineering process to allow the execution of priorities and projects according to manufacturing production needs.
• Coordinate with different areas (logistics, purchasing, planning and quality) assuring that production running without interruptions and products and processes improvements are in compliance with standards and quality system.
• Promote continuous improvement in products and processes to reduce the risks of interruptions in production or quality regulations, it includes implementation of business initiatives.
• Keep the production costs down maintaining the quality of the product or service unaffected and have extensive knowledge and insights into projects.
• Keep an adequate organizational environment to promote the values and Culture of HMCR.
• Leading developed processes, documentation and records, after production release assuring the manufacturing and quality regulations.
• Define and coordinate execution of manufacturing priorities and processes validations according to the indicators of yield, quality, and cost, through methodologies (Six Sigma DMAIC, DOE’s, Lean) assuring the SPCs.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

Education       

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering.
• Master’s degree is a plus in General Managing, Business administration, Project administration, medical devices, Production, and/or another related field is desirable.

Knowledge and skills            

• Strong decision-making and problem-solving skills
• Effective budgeting and performance management
• Strong validation medical manufacturing process experience as a lead.
• Strong statistical techniques knowledge (DOE, SPC, etc.) is required plus experience with continuous improvement methodologies
• Software: Minitab, AutoCad & Solidworks
• Fluent in spoken and written business English
• Knowledge in CAPEX, Budget control and COGS

Experience    

• 2 to 5 Years in leadership positions in Manufacturing Engineering or related field at medical device companies is a plus.
• 7+ years of work experience in medical industry.  Catheter experience preferred.
• Six Sigma Black Belt experience is desirable.
• Management and communication of Projects timeline to key stakeholders including but not limited to Business Development, Process Development, Quality and Supply Chain.
• Coordinating & leading customer and internal meetings.
• Leading and managing the project’s budget and performing CAPEX approval requirements.
• Good time management skills
• People management skills
• People development skills

License or certification required

• CQE certification is a plus***
• Black Belt, Green Belt or Yellow Belt is a plus***