Manufacturing Engineer

About the role

As a Manufacturing Engineer, you are responsible for supporting, improving, and maintaining the production process within the Manufacturing Department Factory Best.

Key activities:

• Support and execute Process Validation.
• Ensure minimum disturbances (max. yield) within production in cooperation with team leads, troubleshooters, and development.
• Replace business-critical equipment and processes to ensure business continuity.
• Participate as an expert in audits.
• Write work instructions; monitor/maintain devices and tooling; instruct employees; implement and maintain production processes.
• Provide structural solutions by initiating amendments like problem reports (PR) and/or 8D forms (problem-solving methodology).
• Prepare and introduce product changes through Life Cycle Management and Modify Launched Design within the manufacturing processes.

Other activities

• CAPA support.
• Lead escalations regarding production issues/complaints, if needed together with development and other stakeholders.
• Support New Product Introductions.
• Perform Defect On Arrival (DEFOA) / Missing On Arrival (MOA) root cause analysis; create and implement structural solutions.
• Provide input for the Product Industrialization Engineer to create a better way of working. After release for volume production, the Manufacturing Engineer is accountable for improvements.
• Analyze performance data with respect to products and processes (Six Sigma, Statistical Process Control).
• Provide input and maintain the New Product Introductions project planning.
• Perform preparation activities on trial/prototype production within New Product Introduction processes.
• Define and lead improvement projects for the assigned unit to improve efficiency, product quality, and test section (Green Belt).

You are a part of

You are part of Factory Best, one of the largest Medical Manufacturing Sites in Health Systems. You are part of Manufacturing Engineering, a team responsible for processes within:

• Imaging Guide Therapy (IGT)
• Magnetic resonance imaging (MR)
• Diagnostic X-Ray (DXR)
• Service, Parts & Repair (SP&R)
• Imaging Components (IC)
• Refurbishment System (RS)
• Field Analysis Lab (FAL)

You will be working closely with operations, quality, and development.

To succeed in this role, you’ll need a customer-first attitude and the following

• Typical bachelor in Industrial Engineering Electronics, Applied Physics, Mechatronics, or comparable.
• Hands-on mentality, proficient in documentation, and a natural inclination for accuracy.
• Be independent, pro-active, and not afraid to take ownership, including relevant stakeholders’ management.
• A result- and quality-driven approach.
• DMAIC Six Sigma Green Belt preferable.
• Preferable experience with SAP (MES) and Windchill.
• > 2 years of experience within Manufacturing or Engineering within high tech industry.
• Basic experience with OT (Operational Technology) and IT (Information Technology).
• Comprehension skills and ability to analyze and summarize.
• Experience with quality management and quality systems; preferably experience in the medical industry (ISO 9001, 13485, FDA requirements, audits, FMEA, 8D, SPC, etc.).
• Personal and communication skills (Dutch and English). Communication with operators up to developers and management.

How we work together

We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week.
Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities.Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.

This is an onsite role.

About Philips

We are a health technology company.