Job Title: Jr Engineer
Location: Colorado Springs, CO
Recent college grads are ok. Looking for driven performers eager to make a difference.
Must be excellent technical writer and have excellent verbal communication skills.
Self guided problem solvers.
Ideally candidates have engineering work experience either through previous engineering roles or non-academic internships.
Description:
The Philips Manufacturing Engineering team is a dynamic group of individuals with diverse strengths working together to continuously deliver solutions to meet the needs of our production customers.
Our team has an opportunity to focus in on projects to improve the yield for our fiber Atherectomy catheters.
This position reports to a project manager responsible investigating yield issues and driving the implementation of root cause solutions.
Successful engineers on our team are intensely curious, able to dig deep for root cause, analyze objectively, draw logical conclusions and follow through quickly to deliver solutions.
We seek passionate people with a positive mental attitude who can interact with ease within and outside our team to develop and deliver win-win solutions.
Project work includes troubleshooting and developing solutions for various chemical and mechanical issues, especially with respect to the following: epoxies - mixing/ curing/ drying/ wicking/ polishing; plastic tubing - fusing/ flaring/ forming/ injection molding; fiber optics – drawing, coating, curing, winding, stuffing, polishing; equipment troubleshooting/repair – simple mechanical machines, temperature controllers, PLC’s, HMI’s, motion controllers, etc.; packaging and sealing pouches and trays; cleaning – ultrasonic, ionizers; testing – burst, tensile, leak, optical gauge, FTIR, DSC, SEM; CAD modeling – Solidworks, and more…
Our contractors will be expected to organize investigations, pursue a logical course of inquiry, be able to collect and analyze data and see patterns/trends, design controlled experiments and analyze the results of those experiments to make rational conclusions about courses of action.
Process validation and verification work is likely required – knowledge of Process Validation Plans, IQ, OQ, PQ, Software validation, test method validation, gage R&R, a and a clear understanding of FDA’s QSR and cGMP ,and a good grounding in statistics would be instrumental to success.
Excellent technical writing is imperative.
Our team uses the Agile Scrum methodology to set the course of our weekly work.
The project manager prioritizes the highest value solutions from our storehouse of improvement ideas and then we plan our work in 2 week sprints and work together to achieve what we commit to.
This methodology is ideal for high output, energetic, lively, positive contributors who like to feel part of a winning team delivering just what the customer wants.
We care deeply about our customers, both internal and external, and strive to continuously improve our products and processes.
We are eager to find teammates who are excited by this atmosphere and the opportunity to make a big difference in the lives of patients!