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RPE Extrusion Engineer
3 months ago
Primary Objective
The RPE Extrusion Engineer operates within the Rapid Prototyping & Engineering group of the research and development department. This individual coordinates with team members, leaders, and customers to create and execute new R&D opportunities using the extrusion process. This individual drives innovations within the lab to create new techniques and processes and supports transfer to a production environment. RPE Extrusion Engineer is responsible for improvements, cost, and day-to-day development to meet and exceed internal and external needs and goals. The RPE Extrusion Engineer plans, designs, and completes projects in extrusion manufacturing utilizing six sigma/lean/DMAIC or like methodologies.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Drive new development in conjunction with leaders and customers to ensure goals and objectives are met and exceeded.
- Sets up and operates extrusion jobs in the RPE lab.
- Establish new techniques or technologies to improve output of the extrusion process for a production environment.
- Manage goals and budget in conjunction with team members.
- Generate and manage project and lab documentation (BOM's, specification changes, ECO's, reports, print revisions, fixturing, protocols, etc.).
- Engage with internal and external resources and customers to maintain strong customer relationships with dedication to customer program schedules.
- Plan and coordinate the selection, procurement, installation, start-up, and qualification of new capital equipment, tooling, and fixtures for medical device manufacturing IQ/OQ
- Create and support a culture of mutual respect, trust, accountability, and teamwork.
- Develop and establish robust and efficient structures that build a link between Sales, Customer Service, Operations, and the Customer.
- Drive a collaborative operating culture within a cross functional team environment that strives to exceed customer expectations.
- Gain support for and develop program objectives/deliverables and ensure all groups involved understand customer demands for successful outputs.
- Ensure customer and Company requirements are met including cost, quality, timing, and other related aspects of programs.
- Participate in continuous improvement efforts to enhance products, processes, and programs.
- Comply with all local, state, federal, and SPG safety regulations, policies, and procedures.
- Other duties as required by project demands.
Qualifications: Knowledge, Skills, Education and Experience
- MS or BS Degree in Engineering or 5 to7 years minimum of related work experience and/or education.
- Direct experience with extrusion and polymer processing.
- Strong documentation skills with ISO 13485 knowledge preferred.
- Minimum 3 years medical device manufacturing and/or extrusion/molding experience.
- Demonstrated creative problem-solving skills to identify, gather, and analyze information to develop solutions and resolve problems in a timely manner.
- Strong working knowledge of APQP / PPAP, including thermoplastics materials and processing.
- Ability to convince/sell internal and external customers.
- Strong organizational skills supported by a self-disciplined operating structure.
- Superior time management / prioritization skills.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Skilled in Microsoft Office Suite including but not limited to, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and other business and database programs.
- Understanding of plastic materials and ability to research materials.
- Demonstrated ability to identify key issues that impact customer requirements and develop the initiatives to address them in a cost-effective manner. Forward thinking, innovation, and a working understanding of cost and operational impacts are essential.
- Effective collaboration skills - Ability to work and communicate effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Proven track record of creating, building, and growing a department that consistently delivered measurable results in a customer focused work environment.
Company Competencies
- Diversity - Demonstrates knowledge of EEO policy; Shows respect and sensitivity for cultural differences; Educates others on the value of diversity; Promotes a harassment-free environment; Builds a diverse workforce.
- Ethics - Treats people with respect; Keeps commitments; Inspires the trust of others; Works with integrity and ethically; Upholds organizational values.
- Professionalism - Approaches others in a tactful manner; Reacts well under pressure; Treats others with respect and consideration regardless of their status or position; Accepts responsibility for own actions; Follows through on commitments.
- Quality - Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness; Looks for ways to improve and promote quality; Applies feedback to improve performance; Monitors own work to ensure quality.
- Safety and Security - Observes safety and security procedures; Determines appropriate action beyond guidelines; Reports potentially unsafe conditions; Uses equipment and materials properly.
Job Competencies
Communication
- Strong leadership, communication, and collaborative working together skills, along with analytic and strategic planning capabilities.
- Consistently clarifies purpose and importance; stresses major points; follows a logical sequence.
Customer Focus
- Makes customers and their needs a primary focus.
- Develops & sustains productive customer relationships.
- Actively seeks information to understand customer's circumstances, problems, expectations, and needs.
- Present program/project level information to customers to build their understanding of issues & capabilities.
- Considers how program/project level actions or plans will affect customers.
- Responds quickly to meet customer needs & resolves problems.
- Assist Engineering & Manufacturing Team Leaders in implementing ways to monitor and evaluate customer concerns, issues and satisfaction and to anticipate customer needs.
Decision Making
- Consistently recognizes a wide range of complex specialized issues, problems, or opportunities in own work group, across the organization and with external customers; determines whether action is needed.
- Steadily identifies the need for and collects information to better understand issues, problems and opportunities.
- Regularly integrates complex information form a wide variety of sources; detects complex trends, associations and cause-effect trends, associations and cause effect relationships.
- Consistently creates relevant options for addressing problems/opportunities and achieving desired outcomes.
- Formulates clear decision criteria, evaluates options by considering implications and consequences; chooses an effective option.
- Consistently implements decisions or initiates action within a reasonable time.
- Regularly includes fellow team members across the organization and external customers in the decision-making process as warranted to obtain good information, make the most appropriate decisions, and ensure buy-in and understanding of the resulting decisions.
Physical Demands
Must be able to support the production floor as required. The physical demands may include:
- Walking, standing and sitting
- Lifting and carrying, pushing and pulling
- Reaching overhead, at or below shoulder level
- Climbing ladder/stairs, stooping, crouching, kneeling
- Gross manipulation and seldom fine manipulation
- Driving
Work Environment
- Works in an office and manufacturing environment
- Occasionally exposed to dust, odors, fumes and noise
- Occasional travel required.