Senior Manufacturing Engineering

As a leader in image guidance solutions, IMRIS Imaging, Inc. provides optimized, fully integrated image-guided therapy environments that address the important needs of patients, clinicians, and hospitals by delivering timely MRI and imaging data to clinicians for use during surgical or interventional procedures. The IMRIS Surgical Theatre enables intraoperative imaging directly within operating rooms. The Company also designs and manufactures proprietary head fixation devices, imaging coils and OR tables for use in this unique and multifunctional intraoperative environment. IMRIS will continue to integrate new intraoperative imaging technologies and shape the future of neurosurgery in operating rooms worldwide.

Manufacturing Engineer to join our team. This role will be performed on-site and is based in the Greater Twin Cities area at our Chaska, MN headquarters. There is no relocation offered for this role. Manufacturing Engineer will act as a liaison with internal and external customers in releasing new processes. Manufacturing Engineer works with the Production Manager in the selection, development, and evaluation of production personnel to ensure efficient manufacturing operations. Manufacturing Engineer will provide high level technical expertise to integrated product team members for technical calculations, design and analysis functions, technical report writing, presentations and other engineering functions as required.

Manufacturing Enginee r you will mentor less experienced members of staff and provide manufacturability oversight during the design phase thru new product introduction serving as the “eyes of the customer” before we introduce new technologies and designs to our customers.

Develop, implement, maintain, and improve current manufacturing processes, including equipment, documentation, training, gages and tooling/fixtures, to optimize quality, productivity and cost performance
Participates in production teams, supply chain teams, Electrical/Mechanical/Systems design teams, and secures the agreed manufacturing requirements
Provide production department with effective technical support to meet quality and quantity objectives
Interface regularly with the Production Manager and Manufacturing Engineers to assure clear and concise communication in a leadership role
Develop assembly and work instructions as well as documentation of processes including production travelers
Responsible for maintaining medical device industry workmanship standard
Performs risk assessment of processes and procedures
Leads projects, working closely with Production, Maintenance, and Quality departments to implement the required changes to stabilize and improve processes
Leads the design for manufacturability process, prepares process FMEAs, root cause analyses, plans facility, equipment, and resource changes and initial product builds, and ensure that Manufacturing deliverables to Development Project Plans are completed and on time
Conduct training on failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) and facilitate meetings for engineering, production, and quality departments
Engage with the appropriate personnel in the identification and resolution of corrective/preventative actions to address Safety, Quality, Technical, and Manufacturing issues
Identify and implement corrective actions to resolve manufacturing product and process problems through testing, evaluation, and analysis
Develop and implement continuous improvement methods such as lean manufacturing to enhance manufacturing quality, reliability, or cost-effectiveness
Recommend and lead value added value engineering activities for manufacturability and cost reduction
Implement a KANBAN system for manufacturing which reduce wasteful production activities and achieve labor reductions
Recommend new standards and policies
Evaluates prototype and manufacturing practices to develop optimized process flows to ensure repeatability and quality
Write and validate assembly and test processes and procedures to be used in manufacturing
Prepare and present reports summarizing information or trends related to manufacturing performance to cross-functional teams
Serves as a mentor to less experienced team members on root cause analysis and problem solving methodologies and statistical analysis/process control
Mentoring, motivating subordinates to reach peak performance; Assists in the identification, evaluation and implementation of new suppliers into the IMRIS system

SUPERVISION RECEIVED AND EXERCISED

~Reports to the Director of Operations

Bachelor or Master’s Degree in Engineering, or equivalent, or a combination of education and or experience

• 6+ years in a Manufacturing Engineering role preferably in medical device industry
• In depth understanding of strength of materials, electro/mechanical designs, plastic/metallic part assembly, product handling, part transfer and fixturing, process tooling, pneumatics, and machine control systems
• Knowledge in Lean Principles and or Six Sigma or other problem solving methodology required
• Experience drafting CAD/3D modeling with emphasis in Solidworks, AutoCAD, VISIO
• Advanced in Microsoft Office Suite with emphasis in Work, Excel, and statistical data collection
• A demonstrated ability to lead a focused production/technical problem solving team
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as test procedures, manuals, engineering drawings and specifications is required
• Systems engineering and interaction experience – hardware and software interface
• Ability to analyze and translate data to effectively report problems through written and/or graphical formats
• Ability to multi-task and set priorities without jeopardizing project schedule
• Able to define Bill of Material structure in support of defined build sequence and have the ability to create ECOs (Engineering Change Orders)
• Knowledge of Medical Device or similar quality and manufacturing systems would be very desirable
• The employee may be required to travel based on business needs
• May spend extended periods of time at a computer workstation
• A flexible workplace arrangement may be available to employees working in roles conducive to remote work (up to two days a week)

Health insurance

• Dental insurance
• Flexible Spending Account
• Life Insurance
• Disability Insurance
• Incentive Bonus
• Additionally, our organization values pay equity and considers the internal equity of our team when making any offer.

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