Senior Technologist, Maintenance and Manufacturing Support
Edwards Lifesciences
Imagine how your ideas and expertise can change a patient’s life. Our Global Operations & Quality team plays a central part in ensuring our products are delivered to patients with cardiovascular disease. You’ll partner cross-functionally with manufacturing operations and sales teams, delivering thoughtful solutions to complex challenges all while developing your knowledge of the medical device industry. Whether your work includes strategic inventory planning, labeling, warehouse management, material handling, or any of our other supply chain opportunities, you will be making a meaningful contribution to our team and to patients all over the world.
In this role, you'll leverage your technical expertise to support manufacturing operations that ultimately help improve patient lives. The Senior Technologist role partners with Operations and Engineering teams to implement solutions, enhance processes, and provide mentorship to junior technicians, helping both people and processes succeed.
*The standard hours for this role are 1st shift 4/10 schedule Monday-Thursday starting at 5am. Potential flexibility for 1st shift 5/8 schedule Monday-Friday.
How you'll make an impact:
- SME (Subject Matter Expert) with in-depth knowledge and technical proficiency in asset management, equipment maintenance, and manufacturing support activities.
- Design, set-up and execute complex feasibility studies, experiments, and tests - both creating and following established protocols - to develop findings for the validation and improvement of equipment and manufacturing processes/methods based on engineering principles; analyze results, make recommendations, and develop reports for Engineering review.
- Review documentation and take appropriate actions to ensure that information is appropriately catalogued and follow through to validation and qualification of equipment, including transferring information to appropriate locations, e.g., ECRs, SOPs, drawings, and tooling, for Engineering approval.
- Perform primarily unscheduled preventive maintenance routines on a wider range of complex equipment to validate user operation and avoid program down time, including providing expertise and guidance in resolving complex failures.
- Apply in-depth knowledge of processes in the use of machines to ensure successful outcomes, devise complex process changes, and ensure knowledge transfer to other levels of technicians.
- On time arrival to work, regular attendance without excessive absenteeism, and working a full 8 hour or longer work period.
- Other incidental duties (e.g. occasional photo copying or deliveries).
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