September 21, 2024

ATL Technology Costa Rica

OTHER

Sustaining Engineer II

Sustaining Engineering is responsible for the identification, review, assessment, and resolution of deficiencies throughout a system's life cycle. They are responsible for returning a system to its baselined configuration and capability as well as identifying opportunities for performance, capability, and profit improvement.

What you will be doing:
Operations

Interact with customers, marketing, and sales as required to capture customer needs and look for opportunities to improve product fabrication and quality.
Responsible for organizing, planning, monitoring, controlling and scheduling the necessary activities of varying size and complexity sustaining projects to achieve goals.
Coordinate resources between competencies (quality, engineering, research & development, manufacturing, global supply) - take the re-design of a product into production.
Coordinate with and consult other Engineers to design, or detail components and systems and to resolve design or manufacturing issues.
Manage and implement change orders and implementation.
Produces and reviews product documentation including proposals, test protocols, and technical reports.
Oversee and/or undertake prototype sample creation.
Review existing product design, identify weaknesses, propose, implement and monitor effectiveness of improvements.
Capture, review, and maintain ROI/cost improvement projects.
Support supplier qualification activities.
Provide hands on support on production lines and the equipment therein for the prevention and renewal of downed production lines.
As project lead, responsible for the coordination of Installation, Operational and Performance Qualification (IQ, OQ & PQ) activities for various equipment and manufacturing processes as part of a product re-design or revalidation.
Verify that designs meet functional requirements

New Product Introduction

Support the introduction of new product lines during the transition state of pre-production to mass production by supporting the new product through trainings and other activities that may be triggered by the new process, design evaluations, drawings, and fabrication to company, industry, and customer standards.
Work with Manufacturing and other Product Development engineers to ensure that products are optimally designed for manufacturing.
Prepare for and conduct various design reviews as requiered, specially during process validation

Customer change request

Supports customer Engineering teams on reviewing, designing, prototyping, and testing
Work with customers to support electrical, mechanical and design elements for product.
Responsible for reviewing scope and content of the projects quoted.
Manage Support Engineering projects implementation that are customer driven with the ability to manage multiple priorities from different customers
Translate user needs and other customer inputs into clear, concise design requirements and design concepts.

Issues /RCA/Complains

Lead and performs RCA (Root Cause Analysis) and resolves design or manufacturing issues
Conduct performance qualification test planning, execution, creation of test reports.
Support and Lead Corrective and Preventative Actions (CAPA), Nonconforming Materials. Reports (NCMR), and Supplier Corrective Action Report (SCAR) activities.
Responsible to create Root cause analysis. Familiarity with process control techniques, such as Statistical Process Control (SPC), Dsign of Experiments (DOE), and Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA).

Engineering in General:

Understand detailed engineering drawings and specifications for product, equipment, dies, tools, and controls, as well knowledge using computer-assisted drafting CAD software.
Compute mathematical formulas to develop and design detailed specifications for components or machinery.
Responsible for product and equipment re validation activities in coordination with process engineers.
Lead/support cross-functional projects with China and UK
Perform all duties in compliance with the quality management system and actively contribute to the continuous improvement of the QMS.
Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
Manage Sustaining Engineering projects of varying size and complexity.( ej line transfer)
Maintains and creates documentation including test plans, test reports, PFMEA, VMP, validation documents, technical proposals and more.
Lay out and draw schematic, orthographic, or angle views to depict functional relationships of components, assemblies, systems, and machines.
Travel both domestically and internationally as needed.

Additional

Occasionally Process development and Mapping.
Provide training to team members to increase individual procedural knowledge and proficiency in executing a task, individual procedural knowledge and proficiency in functioning as part of a team, and overall team performance.

What we expect from you.

Bachelor of Science in Mechanical, Electronic Engineering or a combination of a degree and experience deemed sufficient by ATL Technology
Minimum 3 to 5 years of experience or combination of education and experience equal to 4 years.
Experience in design of components for plastics injection molding, metal forming/stamping, and electro-mechanical devices preferred.
Solid Works certification preferred.
Technical writing skills preferred.
Advanced English is a must.

What you should know about us:
We believe there is a better way to bring medical devices to market. We use an engineer-to-engineer approach to develop custom interconnect solutions for medical devices that improve the quality of one's life'. Join us in our mission to be the leading provider of custom engineered solutions for top medical device manufacturers. ATL has operations in China, Costa Rica, Taiwan, UT-USA, plus remote staff in strategic global locations ... and we're growing!