12 month contract opportunity for Cork based Automation Engineer with a Medical Device Manufacturer. You will contribute to a New Product Development (NPD) initiative, focusing on process development within a medical device environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop robust (high capability) high yielding processes.
- Optimize process equipment and technology performance to enable transfer of efficient and repeatable processes to manufacturing.
- Develop automated inspection systems through vendors for use in process and qualify processes.
- Work closely with R&D engineering to develop new medical device designs and transfer validated designs to manufacturing.
- Vendor engagement for equipment design and builds. Supporting these from concept to implementation onsite.
- Equipment design and improvements to existing to update processes to facilitate NPI's and improve inspection methods.
- Implement documentation, preliminary and manufacturing.
- Write and carry out validations / qualifications.
- Implement continued quality improvement.
- Liaise with other relevant functions with regard to ongoing development of current processes and future development needs.
- Will be responsible for commissioning varying new manufacturing technology, ramping up production, undertaking validations, continuous process improvement and identifying potential development opportunities for medical device technology.
- Evaluates in conjunction with EHS new equipment/processes/chemicals for environmental impact/effect to eliminate or lessen such impacts/effects.
Qualifications & Experience
- Level 8 degree in relevant Engineering or Science discipline (Manufacturing, Mechanical, Electronic, Production etc).
- 5+ years relevant experience on automated equipment in a regulated industry
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with good leadership abilities.
- Excellent mentoring skills
- Experience in any of the following is desired.
- Automation
- Automated inspections
- New technology identification and development