Staff Instrument Manufacturing Engineer
By joining Bio-Techne, you’ll join a company with a powerful and positive purpose of enabling cutting-edge research in Life Sciences and Clinical Diagnostics. Bio-Techne, and all of its brands, provides tools for researchers to further treat and prevent disease worldwide.
Salary Range: $112K-168K depending on experience
Position Summary:
The Staff Manufacturing Instrument Engineer is responsible for all sustaining quality and technical aspects of product manufacturing and process control within the production facility reporting into Operations Management. The position requires prior experience in well-established production environments working with multidiscipline (Mechanical, Electrical., Hardware, Software, Optics, Etc.) products and a strong understanding of standard processes and controls and knows what good sustaining manufacturing systems looks like.
This position requires strong knowledge and experience in Electronic/Mechanical Engineering in an Electromechanical environment to includes troubleshooting to component level.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead production organization in Root Cause Analysis and Corrective Action Implementation with focus in electronic circuitry.
- Assure product and process quality, including post-customer delivery, by designing testing methods; testing finished- product and process capabilities; establishing standards; confirming manufacturing processes.
- Improve manufacturing efficiency by analyzing and planning workflow, space requirements, and equipment layout.
- Analyze assembly/test procedures and methods for process quality improvement
- Initiate and develop complex processes, procedures, and manufacturing fixtures and jigs
- Ensure efficient and accurate NPI transfers into production
- Provide leadership to production personnel in process improvement and good manufacturing practices
- Complete design and development projects through training and guiding technicians
- Provide manufacturing decision-making information by calculating production, labor, and material costs; reviewing production schedules; estimating future requirements
- Prepare summaries of product build cycles, yields, defects and issues
- Develop and or evaluate manufacturing processes for design and improvement by applying knowledge of product design, fabrication, assembly, tooling, and materials; conferring with equipment vendors; soliciting observations from operators.
- Lead, direct, and the Process Engineering technicians.
Education and Experience:
- Education and Experience:
- Ability to analyze and evaluate designs and components for introduction into manufacturing process
- Proficiency in testing and troubleshooting of complex electromechanical systems
- Experience troubleshooting complex electronic circuits to component level
- Experience in driving manufacturability in the design of manufacturing processes and products
- Ability to improve manufacturing team’s assembly and troubleshooting skills through training and coaching
- Experience with optics and optical components is preferred
- Experience with SolidWorks desired
- Ability to generate, evaluate, and implement Engineering Change Orders
- Experience / ability to read and interpret Engineering specifications and tolerances
- ISO 9001 experience or certification
- Strong person who can be a leader, coordinate activities across functional groups, proactive, self-starter
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering required
Why Join Bio-Techne:
- We offer competitive salaries along with extensive medical, vision, and dental plans for you and your family starting on day one!
- We invest in our employees’ financial futures through 401k matching and an employee stock purchase plan.
- We help our employees develop their careers through mentorship, promotional opportunities, training and development, internship programs, and more.
- We offer employee resource groups, volunteer paid time off, employee events, and charity drives to build a culture of caring and belonging.
- We foster a culture of empowerment and innovation, where employees feel valued and encouraged to bring their new ideas to the table.
Where permitted by applicable law, candidate must have received or be willing to receive an FDA authorized COVID-19 vaccine by date of hire to be considered for this position.
Bio-Techne is an E-Verify Employer in the United States.