**Role/Purpose**
Manage team to ensure smooth and continuous operations in product and process engineering. Lead a team of professional/technical individuals to provide support in projects for the manufacturing area. This includes automation and integration projects for new and existing products, applied technology for cost reduction, quality/reliability, ergonomics and delivery improvement. In addition, lead / participate in the validation and implementation of changes related to the projects. A strong engineering background is required to effectively communicate and work with a technical team on a day-to-day basis. This role will oversee a concept development lab and play a large role in supporting design for manufacturing strategies to achieve an optimal process design.
**Key Responsibilities:**
+ Manage and/or lead a small team within assigned function.Supervise the activities assigned to the direct reports, ensuring their compliance in support of the applicable projects.
+ Plan and direct assigned portfolio of projects with the accountability for successful completion of assigned project deliverables.Aside from asset management, may manage a portion of the budget.
+ Identify opportunities and lead the execution of changes to drive improvements including the use of engineering methods (Six Sigma, Lean) and DFM for the continuous improvement of processes and products.
+ Approve complex engineering documents including equipment design/URS/specs, and risk management documents with robust knowledge on design control requirements.Ensure FAT/SAT/IQ and other validation activities successful completion.
+ Develop team members to increase business acumen and functional skills
+ Act as SME for complex technology issues where analysis of issues requires in-depth knowledge of field
+ Other incidental duties
**Education and Experience:**
+ Bachelor's Degree in Electronic, Mechanics, Mechatronics, Robotics, Industrial, or related Engineering field is required.
+ Master's Degree or equivalent in related field is required.
+ 6 years experience required, preferably working in a regulated industry
+ Proven experience in a leadership or key role in large scale transformational projects with cross-functional team coordination is preferred.
+ Automation or New Technology Transfer experience is highly desirable.
**Required Skills**
+ Ability to manage technical and/or engineering disciplines and demonstrated informal mentoring and/or peer leadership skills
+ Proven successful project management skills
+ Proven expertise in both Microsoft Office Suite and related systems
+ Excellent problem-solving, organizational, analytical and critical thinking skills including high discretion/judgment in decision making
+ Excellent documentation and communication skills and interpersonal relationship skills including negotiating and relationship management skills with ability to drive achievement of objectives
+ Extensive understanding of engineering procedures while defining team operating standards
+ Extensive understanding of related aspects of engineering processes and/or systems
+ Basic financial acumen as it relates to engineering (e.g., material and capital expenditures and product costing)
+ Demonstrated skill set to manage small team and provide coaching and feedback, including responsibility for all employee actions including hire/fire authority and partnering with HR on all aspects of employee relations
+ Ability to influence cross-functional partners
+ Ability to integrate metrics into the projects and operations
+ Strict attention to detail
+ Ability to interact professionally with all organizational levels and proactively escalate issues to appropriate levels of management in the organization
+ Ability to work and excel within a fast paced, dynamic, and constantly changing work environment
+ Primarily interacts with internal subordinates and other supervisors
+ Typically interacts with external suppliers, vendors and/or customers
+ Share information and provides basic problem solving solutions; gains cooperation of others, conducts presentations of technical information concerning specific projects or schedules
+ Dedicated to quality client service and pro-active and responsive to client needs.
+ Develop peer, cross functional and cross business relationships to maximize best practice sharing and team effectiveness.
+ Adhere to all EHS rules and requirements and take adequate control measures in preventing injuries to themselves and others as well as to the protection of environment and prevention of pollution under their span of influence/control
Edwards Lifesciences is the global leader in patient-focused medical innovations for structural heart disease, as well as critical care and surgical monitoring. Driven by a passion to help patients, the company collaborates with the world's leading clinicians and researchers to address unmet healthcare needs, working to improve patient outcomes and enhance lives. Headquartered in Irvine, California, Edwards Lifesciences has extensive operations in North America, Europe, Japan, Latin America and Asia and currently employs over 13,000 individuals worldwide.
For us, helping patients is not a slogan - it's our life's work. From developing devices that replace or repair a diseased heart valve to creating new technologies that monitor vital signs in the critical care setting, we focus on helping patients regain and improve the quality of their life.
