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 relatedEngineering 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 SAPFluent in spoken and written business English Normative ISO13485 and FDALean and six sigma strong knowledgeKnowledge in CAPEX, Budget control and COGSSoftware: MinitabSoftware: AutoCad & SolidworksHighly Analytical, organized and business/service oriented.

EXPERIENCE

6+ years in similar technical lead positions8+ 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
ReqID: 58193