Engineer III, Manufacturing Engineering

About the position

As a Manufacturing Engineer III at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you will provide technical support for special processes and assembly operations within the Laboratory Equipment Division. This role involves optimizing manufacturing processes, resolving production issues, and collaborating with various teams to ensure product quality and efficiency. You will also be responsible for implementing continuous improvement projects and supporting new product development initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Establish and optimize manufacturing processes, methods, and procedures to assure product conformance, quality, and cost effectiveness.
• Resolve production issues and keep production running to support customer requirements until corrective actions can be implemented.
• Use fact-based analysis to identify gaps and develop corrective and preventive actions to address them.
• Identify and implement Continuous Improvement projects and/or general improvement projects, applying Lean methodologies and PPI tools.
• Coordinate and direct investigations in new processes, materials, and technologies, providing training for the operation as needed.
• Coordinate and complete the validation process for new processes and equipment.
• Provide technical assistance and expertise to manufacturing in problematic situations, implementing corrective action, and providing training as needed.
• Establish and maintain manufacturing specifications, including BOM, routings, set up sheets, and other related technical recommendations and documentation.
• Represent manufacturing engineering on New Product Development teams, ensuring new products are capable of being manufactured to accepted specifications.
• Prepare capital appropriation requests and administer the approved project capital.
• Coordinate and present manufacturing plans at design review meetings with R&D and Business leadership.

Requirements

• A Bachelor's degree in engineering, preferably in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, or equivalent experience in the field.
• 2+ years of proven experience in manufacturing engineering or a related field.

Nice-to-haves

• 3+ years of hands-on engineering experience or related field (Mechanical or Industrial preferred).
• Experience in an ISO environment.