Senior Manufacturing Engineer

Surmodics•Eden Prairie, MN

2h•$90,686 - $135,913

About The Position

Surmodics is pursuing highly differentiated medical devices that are designed to address unmet clinical needs and engineered to the most demanding requirements. This key growth strategy leverages the combination of the Company’s expertise in proprietary surface technologies, along with enhanced device design, development and manufacturing capabilities. The Company mission remains to improve the detection and treatment of disease. Job Summary Manufacturing support for Coating Services including resolution of quality issues, equipment design and process improvements.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering
5+ years’ experience in process engineering. Medical device industry preferred
Ability to apply analytical skills and scientific technical principles in problem solving and development
Demonstrated computer skills preferably spreadsheets, word processing, database and other applicable software programs
Strong interpersonal and organizational skills and the ability to work effectively as a team member

Responsibilities

Have overall responsibility for the successful technical outcome of the project
Designs and executes hands-on work with input from team members
Develops qualification and test protocols and executes experiments.
Uses software tools for data analysis and performs statistical analysis of data. Evaluates and interprets experimental results in written reports.
Evaluates purchase of equipment and qualification strategy. Qualify, integrate, and maintain manufacturing equipment. Perform process and product qualification and validation
Identify process improvement (client or internally-driven) requirements
Prepare process improvement proposals including timeline and resource needs
Execute project and provide leadership to Operations team
Facilitate efforts to complete project tasks amongst shared internal resources and outside vendors
Execute, internal tech transfer, as recipient of processes, of projects to operations
Assist lower level engineers and technicians. May have direct supervisory responsibilities
Maintains complete, organized, and up-to-date records.
Provide prompt and professional updates
Prepares and presents oral and written reports
Interface with clients, independently in some cases, to assure successful execution of projects
Provide updates to management and track project budget and timeline
Maintains manufacturing supplies
Maintains critical equipment spare part inventories
Maintains equipment and documents maintenance activities