NPI & Sustaining Engineer

Please no agencies. Direct employees currently authorized to work in the United States – no sponsorship available.

Seeking an exceptional Engineer to join our Consumables NPI & Sustaining team. In this role, you will help drive the seamless transition of new products from development to manufacturing and provide technical stewardship for our on-market consumables portfolio, ensuring product quality and global supply continuity. We collaborate closely with experts across research and development, operations and commercial organizations in support of developing new cutting-edge products and resolving mission critical problems that threaten robust product performance.

• Support testing needs to develop, qualify, or troubleshoot consumable products and/or processes.
• Execution of experiments following well defined workflows and using existing experimental tools.
• Communicate results clearly and contribute quality data for making critical process development decisions.
• Design and validate new experimental tools for the characterization of consumable parts.
• Plan and execute methodical, efficient experiments to ensure the robustness of consumables used in products.
• Assist in the identification of root cause and troubleshooting of critical process and product failures.
• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement in consumable products and processes.
• To be successful in this role, individuals must be driven to innovate, and to both find and fix problems, communicate effectively and have a strong understanding of engineering fundamentals.

• Experience with microscopy and metrology systems [e.g. Keyence, OGP] to characterize high precision plastic or glass components.
• Familiarity with data compilation and analysis tools in [e.g. Excel, JMP]; ability to assist in interpreting Gage R&R studies and process capability [Cpk] trends.
• Fundamental wet lab skills including pipetting, preparing reagents from a detailed worksheet, operation of lab instruments, and the ability to independently follow and execute an experimental procedure.
• Thorough attention to detail.
• Strong organizational skills, specifically the ability to accurately record/compile data and observations from several experiments.
• Curiosity and a drive to constantly learn new things.

• BS/MS in mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, biomedical engineering, or a related field.
• Experience with plastics manufacturing (e.g. injection molding)
• Experience with custom experimental design that involves the interaction between consumables and other instrumentation (e.g., automated fluidic control systems, custom chip-instrument connections, thermocyclers).
• Programming and simulation skills (e.g., Matlab, Python, COMSOL, OpenCV, C++)
• Excellent data analysis and critical thinking skills.

POST-OFFER BACKGROUND CHECK IS REQUIRED. Digital Prospectors is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Digital Prospectors affirms the right of all individuals to equal opportunity and prohibits any form of discrimination or harassment.

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