Careers that Change Lives

The Surgical Innovations Group strives to enable earlier diagnosis, better treatment, faster complication-free recovery, and enhanced patient outcomes through less invasive surgical solutions.

SURGICAL INNOVATIONS sets the standard for Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) by creating innovative surgical products and services that focus on obesity and diseases and conditions of the gastrointestinal tract, lung, abdominal wall, pelvic region, and the head and neck.

A Day in the Life

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

The Engineer Technician is responsible for providing daily support of multiple product families with specific regard to product quality, product cost, process improvements, safety, and customer feedback. Areas of responsibility include various chemical, polymer extrusion, textile, and bio-medical processes. Duties include managing and/or participating in cross functional teams to accomplish project specific goals. This person will be mentored to become the resident expert on production equipment and processes. Key responsibility will be to insure efficient product processing while maintaining established quality/cost/safety standards.

• Provide daily production support to set up, trouble shoot, repair, and monitor of chemical, polymer extrusion, textile, and bio-medical process equipment.
• Review manufacturing equipment and processes for improvement potential using statistical data and analysis of equipment condition then effectively manage change projects.
• Team with manufacturing and quality personnel on a daily basis to review / disposition production defects and provides potential process and/or equipment corrective actions to assure production schedules and quality expectations are met.
• Review product field returns to determine root cause of potential manufacturing defects then develop and implement effective corrective actions.
• Provide expertise in specification development, procurement, build, documentation, validation, and personnel training for chemical, polymer extrusion, textile, and bio-medical related processes.
• Support new product development, quality improvement, and integration projects.
• Manage Eng changes notices, BOM creation, SPAC system, and general ERP support.
• Maintain excellent communications with Manufacturing, Quality, Maintenance, Safety, Planning, and Metrology departments on an as needed basis.
• Ability to lead cross functional teams a plus, using project management tools such as Microsoft Project Gantt charts, tracking financials of project, holding successful meetings, and distributing timely minutes.
• Follow established guidelines and management direction with regard to engineering decisions and departmental/company policy.

Hours for this position are M-F:

Target work times are:

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• Minimum of 8 years of experience of relevant experience and may require vocational or technical education and advanced certification in addition to prior work experience
• High School Diploma or equivalent

Nice to Have

Pursuing a BS in Chemical, Mechanical, or Biomedical Engineering