Principal Manufacturing Engineer

Position Title: Principal Manufacturing Engineer

Department:  Electrophysiology

F/P Time: Full-time

Location: Cartago, Costa Rica

About Heraeus

Solutions from the Heraeus Group provide faster internet, rid water of germs, and keep hearts beating in time. As a broadly diversified and globally leading family-owned technology company, we combine materials expertise and cutting-edge technologies to create products used all over the world with one thing in common: World-class quality.

JOB PURPOSE

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 the engineering process to allow the execution of priorities and projects according to manufacturing production needs.
• Lead coordination 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.
• Leading Implementing continuous improvement projects in products and processes to reduce the risks of interruptions in production or quality regulations.
• Keep an foster organizational environment to promote HMCR values and culture.
• Leading developed processes, documentation and records, after production release assuring the manufacturing and quality regulations.
• Define and coordinate execution of manufacturing priorities and process according to the indicators of yield, quality, and cost, through methodologies (Six Sigma DMAIC, DOE’s, Lean) assuring the SPCs.
• Perform manufacturing technical leadership during the validation, and post-production to avoid line interruptions and high scrap

EDUCATION

• Electrical/Electronics Engineering; Mechatronics or related
• Engineering Master’s degree in field related (Plus)

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

• Strong validation medical manufacturing process experience as a lead.
• Strong statistical techniques knowledge (DOE, SPC, etc.) is required plus experience with continuous improvement methodologies,
• Proficient in using SAP
• Fluent in spoken and written business English
• Normative ISO13485 and FDA
• Lean and six sigma strong knowledge
• Knowledge in CAPEX, Budget control and COGS
• Software: Minitab
• Software: AutoCad & Solidworks
• Highly Analytical, organized and business/service oriented.

EXPERIENCE

• 6+ years in similar technical lead positions
• 8+ years of work experience in medical industry.  Catheter experience preferred.
• Transfer Process Projects implementation.
• Experience supporting production lines and leading root cause investigations used problem solving methodologies.
• Continuous improvements projects implementation