Position Summary:
Responsible for new product introduction and production support engineering for a specific product or group of products after transfer from design to in-house or outsourced production. Interfaces with design, process, test, reliability and manufacturing engineering to solve product issues and production problems. Develops and sustains process improvements to reduce production costs and increase yields.
Responsibilities:
- Support for the design and development of the robust high- performance fluorescence microscopy and DNA sequencing systems.
- Support for instrument manufacturing and customer solutions with technical expertise related to electro-mechanical, thermal system, mechanism, optical and fluidics systems.
- Participate in Project Core Teams to drive the release of quality products into manufacturing and incorporate new designs into life sciences instruments.
- Manage project includes creation and maintenance of detailed project plans and schedules for team members, provide status reports and make presentations.
- Interface with design engineering in coordinating the release of new products.
- Participate actively and able to independently in troubleshooting, problem solving, failure analysis, root cause, and corrective action processes as required
- Carry out design experiments, perform analytical measurements and interpret results of system and sub-system level testing to qualify or resolve product and process issues.
- Support the definition, design, development, testing, and validation efforts for product enhancements.
- Apply various analysis techniques, such as FMEA and statistical analysis to optimize product quality and minimize cost, providing all calculations, performance data, and drawings required on new and existing products.
- Manage and coordinate Engineering Change Order implementation activities including scrap analysis, material disposition, update work instructions and test requirement changes.
- Carry out documentation responsibilities include, but not limited to, generating detailed engineering drawings, Bill of Materials, test reports, assembly procedures and design validation plans.
- Manage and work closely with contract manufacturing partners to ensure smooth transition of quality products from development into manufacturing and continuous effort in improving the product quality in sustaining.
- Identify the potential risk and provide recommendations for mitigation in area of responsibility or at project level. Manage, track, and provide trade-offs of COGS or budget base on cost analysis.
- Responsible in implementation and improvement for the product/platform sustaining
- Frequent travel to other Illumina manufacturing sites, contract manufacturing partners and suppliers is anticipated.
- Other such duties that may be determined by Management
Experience/Education:
- Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 3 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD without experience; or equivalent work experience.
