Position Summary

Provides Sustaining Engineering support to all areas of operations, which may include mechanical, electromechanical, pneumatic, or electronic technical duties and problem solving.  Primary responsibility includes technical support of released products and processes.  This may be design or process changes to improve manufacturability, increase first pass yields, reduce costs, reduce inventories etc. Projects may be in response to customer quality issues, vendor suggestions or internal improvement efforts

Responsibilities

1. Provide support of released products for design changes, quality improvements, customer issues (root cause and corrective actions) and cost reductions.  Implement performance, cost, quality and consistency improvements in existing products and processes.
2. Identify potential product weakness in function, quality, or performance, and drive change through continuous improvement.
3. Analyze, develop and recommend design approaches required to meet production requirements and make product improvements.
4. Provide producibility input and manufacturing plans for product design or modification.
5. Develop and implement optimal, cost-effective manufacturing processes and methods in accordance with product specifications and quality standards.
6. Participate in vendor selection, evaluation, audit and approval.
7. Assist in resolving design and supplier issues.
8. Recommends actions by analyzing and interpreting data and making comparative analyses. Analyzes, substantiates, and proposes changes in methods and materials with cost and quality impact.
9. May provide leadership to others in department. Trains and mentors less experienced employees. Shares specialized knowledge with others.

Qualifications

1. Must be able to drive design engineering projects to completion with minimal supervision within a specified time schedule.
2. Ability to use standard business applications software and/or specialized data analysis tools.
3. Excellent documentation and technical writing skills required.
4. Strong interpersonal and team building skills required.
5. Ability to drive problem solving strategies for complex problems involving cross functional teams required.  
6. Six Sigma or other relevant statistical experience a plus.
7. Background in high volume, small precision parts manufacturing a plus.
8. Personal experience with Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) programs a plus.
9. Background and understanding of ISO 9001/13485 a plus.
10. Background in valve manufacturing a plus.