Manufacturing Technician (Medical Device / R&D)

Maxonic maintains a close and long-term relationship with our direct client. In support of their needs, we are looking for an Engineering Technician 3.

Job Description:

Job Title: Engineering Technician 3

Job Location: Orange, CT

Work Schedule: On-site

Pay Rate: $34, Based on experience

Description:

The New Product Verification Department is devoted to assuring safe, reliable, and effective products that exceed patient, surgeon, and hospital expectations. The department plays a vital role in new product development and production, and in the quality of da Vinci robotic product lines, including endoscopic instrumentation, and supporting accessories. The engineering tech will work with a team of dedicated individuals within a product development team to assure the quality of new designs, to identify issues related to new designs and processes, and to work with other engineers to develop test methods.

Roles & Responsibilities:

This position has responsibility and authority for:

Protocol Execution & Reporting

• Generate test plans and test protocols/reports with guidance from appropriate engineering teams.
• Collaborate and execute testing for teams including design, clinical and test engineering groups.
• Complete assembly of prototype devices in collaborations with manufacturing engineering group.
• Executes test protocols for clinically-based surgical simulation and automated testing utilizing da Vinci Surgical Systems and other test equipment
• Executes Design verification testing with guidance from the test owner
• Identifies and reports problems that arise during testing, and escalates new or persistent failure modes to appropriate engineering teams
• Follows GDP (Good Documentation Process) when filling out test data sheets
• Performs instrument, endoscope and accessory cleaning and reprocessing
• Generates work instructions for test methods or procedures.

Main Skills:

• Mechanical mindset

• Mix of – testing, troubleshooting, collecting data, following protocols

• Development environment – lab type space, we have engineering benches where we work on things (build things) and test them in different rooms

• Good record keeping

• Experience with Excel, PowerPoint

• Experience with measurement equipment – vision systems

• Mechanical and troubleshooting mindset

• Associate’s degree – nice to have

• Medical device background – preferred

• More inclined to testing (80%) than building (20%)

• Feedback on testing protocols (won’t be writing the protocols)

• Won’t be working on live tissues

EQUIPMENT:

• Washer Disinfector – big ultrasonic cleaning tank and a steam sterilization chamber that we use to clean medical equipment

• Interview: 1st phone screen and 2 to 3 hrs of onsite interview

Process Improvements:

• Proactively identify and implement test method and procedure improvements.
• Organize and maintain lab workspaces. Implement improvements to increase development efficiencies.

Other Responsibilities:

• Ensures successful, on-time completion of department projects; communicates constraints to direct management when successful project completion is at risk
• Performs a broad variety of tasks in support of product verification and test process design as assigned by department management
• Complies with company Department and Standard Operating Procedures

Skills, Experience, Education, & Training:

• Education and/or Experience: High school diploma or GED, along with 6 experience working in a hardware production or test environment. AS or BS degree in a scientific discipline is a plus.
• Language Skills: Ability to read, write and understand English. Ability to read and comprehend instructions, short correspondence, and memos. Ability to write simple correspondence. Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to other employees, supervisors, or engineers.
• Mathematical Skills: Ability to perform basic mathematical calculations. Ability to determine the minimum, maximum and nominal value when provided with a specification and a tolerance.
• Reasoning Ability: Ability to apply commonsense understanding to carry out instructions. Ability to report quality issues. Ability to suggest simple process improvements. Must be a quick learner with the ability understand complex products and processes.
• Computer skills: Ability to use MS office tools- Word, Excel as part of daily work. Ability to use on-line documentation. Ability to follow instructions to run software scripts.
• Other skills and abilities: Ability to work in a team environment. Ability to use basic tools and measuring equipment. Ability to work independently and with minimal supervision. Ability to multitask, and handle tasks with competing priorities effectively. Ability to work with biological samples, including blood, tissue and organs. Willingness to learn and contribute. Proactive and Self motivated.
• Integrity: Accepting and adhering to high ethical, moral, and personal values in decisions, communications, actions, and when dealing with others

About Maxonic:

Since 2002 Maxonic has been at the forefront of connecting candidate strengths to client challenges. Our award winning, dedicated team of recruiting professionals are specialized by technology, are great listeners, and will seek to find a position that meets the long-term career needs of our candidates. We take pride in the over 10,000 candidates that we have placed, and the repeat business that we earn from our satisfied clients.

Interested in Applying?

Please apply with your most current resume. Feel free to contact Manish Rajput (manish@maxonic.com/(408) 684-6911) for more details.