SUMMARY:

• Experience with plastics materials engineering, adhesives for plastics, plastics extruding, plastic film laminating/conversion.
• Experience in product development, design change control processes, redesign for cost reduction efforts.
• Experience in New Product Development or Product Change Processes.
• Experience in Manufacturing Processes.
• Demonstrated project management experience.
• Experience in regulated design environments a plus - specifically medical device development, FDA or ISO registered.
• Ability to deal effectively with all employees and external business contacts while conveying a positive, service oriented attitude.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to maintain complete confidentiality and discretion in business relationships and exercise sound business judgment.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Manufacturing Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for organizing, planning, monitoring, controlling and scheduling the necessary activities of medium to large scale projects to achieve goals.
• Coordinate resources between competencies (quality, engineering, research & development, manufacturing) to take new product design or design changes into a production line.
• Leads resources and/or teams and other activities to verify and validate design changes on existing products and its related manufacturing processes as part of sustaining engineering efforts (life cycle product engineering).
• Initiates and/or evaluates requirements and deliverables of process changes.
• Given projects that involve external transition of products out candidate will be responsible to chart the project and manage needed resources to complete transition successfully.
• May oversee or coordinate the work of engineers, draftsmen, technicians and other positions that assist in specific assignments when requested.
• Develop program plans and track progress related to the above listed initiatives.
• Attend product development meetings and provide Operations or Sustaining Engineering input if required.
• Reply to corrective actions requests (CAR) for product and process related issues.
• Provides Design input for all desirable attributes/Design for manufacturability (DFX/DFM) input and evaluation to product development, support manufacturing by providing cost-improvement alternate product design, materials, components.
• Supports the development and training of subordinate engineers.
• Conforms to, supports and enforces all Company policies and procedures
• Participates in any and all reasonable work activities as may be deemed suitable and assigned by management.
• Project management training and experience.