Staff Process Engineer

Dexcom • Mesa, AZ

1d

About The Position

The Company Dexcom Corporation (NASDAQ DXCM) is a pioneer and global leader in continuous glucose monitoring (CGM). Dexcom began as a small company with a big dream: To forever change how diabetes is managed. To unlock information and insights that drive better health outcomes. Here we are 25 years later, having pioneered an industry. And we're just getting started. We are broadening our vision beyond diabetes to empower people to take control of health. That means personalized, actionable insights aimed at solving important health challenges. To continue what we've started: Improving human health. We are driven by thousands of ambitious, passionate people worldwide who are willing to fight like warriors to earn the trust of our customers by listening, serving with integrity, thinking big, and being dependable. We've already changed millions of lives and we're ready to change millions more. Our future ambition is to become a leading consumer health technology company while continuing to develop solutions for serious health conditions. We'll get there by constantly reinventing unique biosensing-technology experiences. Though we've come a long way from our small company days, our dreams are bigger than ever. The opportunity to improve health on a global scale stands before us. Meet the team: In this role, you will use sound and proven engineering principles to assist in designing and developing processes and requirements. The projects and activities will focus on Dexcom’s sensor technology. Working as a member of a technology team, you will collaborate with other engineers, management, and operators. This position will lead efforts to prove out manufacturing and automation processes to achieve design requirements specified by R&D, and explore and evaluate new technologies and concepts through analysis, prototyping, fixture design, and experimentation. This position will transfer and scale up new products from R&D. Involvement may begin from feasibility at vendors to full scale manufacturing.

Requirements

• Typically requires a Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline, and a minimum of 8-12 years related experience or Master’s degree and 5-7 years equivalent industry experience or a PhD and 2-4 years of experience.
• Ability to run self-directed projects, maintain timelines, stay organized, and balance multiple activities in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to deal with ambiguity/uncertainty and a willingness to try new/challenging things.
• Proven ability to work hands-on in a fast-paced environment.
• Familiar with experimental design, data analysis, and interpretation of experiments.
• Excellent communication (written and verbal) and personal interaction skills

Responsibilities

• Design, document and optimize new manufacturing process/assembly steps and operating procedures for new stations, equipment, and processes within a regulated quality system.
• Create and execute equipment qualification documents (IQ/OQ/PQ) and process validations.
• Demonstrate hands-on process understanding and provide guidance and training with plant operators on engineering level builds.
• Design and develop fixtures and equipment components required to meet process goals from concept to implementation.
• Implement, characterize, and optimize processes, mechanical tests, and fixtures/jigs for assembly, inspection and test through implementation of measurement systems, part inspections, MSA, and capability analysis.
• Assist in scaling up equipment and processes from prototype to pilot to full scale manufacturing.
• Provide design and assembly requirements working within scope as determined by business and schedule needs.
• Perform statistically robust and industry standard analysis of data, and present findings to technical teams
• Develops, validates and implements improvements to increase throughput and improve manufacturing yields.
• Analyzes existing manufacturing processes and in-process tests.
• Streamlines production lines to reduce overall production costs.
• Investigates field failures.
• Performs failure analysis and determines root cause.
• Designs and validates product enhancements to improve product reliability.
• Independently manages and prioritizes projects, tracks progress toward overall goals, and provides periodic updates to management.
• Assembles and analyzes pareto charts for yield failure modes and creates and drives action plans to address yield loss.
• Applies lean manufacturing techniques and concepts to assembly line processes to improve efficiencies, throughput and quality.
• Reviews and evaluates capacity models and anticipates when new equipment or additional headcount will be required.
• Demonstrates initiative by seeking out new projects that can positively impact the organization by reducing scrap, increasing gross margins and improving productivity.
• Analyzes and plans work force utilization, space requirements, and work flow.
• Designs layouts to place new equipment and workspace for maximum efficiency.
• Develops test plans, DOEs and validation IQ/OQ/PQ protocols.
• Executes protocols and writes reports to ensure equipment/processes meet assembly specifications and regulatory requirements.
• Conducts yield analysis such as Statistical Process Control (SPC) targeting physical cause of failure for yield loss and improving quality
• Reviews assembly process instructions and makes updates to improve repeatability and standard work.

Benefits

• A full and comprehensive benefits program.
• Growth opportunities on a global scale.
• Access to career development through in-house learning programs and/or qualified tuition reimbursement.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior