Pilot R&D Team Lead

Pilot R&D Team Lead

Permanent

About Heraeus

Making displays foldable? Helping hearts beat with medical innovations? Or breathing new life into precious metals? As a family-owned global technology group we help our customers to always being one step ahead.

About Heraeus Medevio

Together we improve lives. At Heraeus Medevio, we bring lifesaving and life-changing medical devices to market through partnerships with medical device manufacturing companies. Backed by Heraeus Group, we are committed to the growth of our teams and organization by providing an open space for open minds.

To reach our vision of improving 100 million lives every year, we foster a culture of curiosity that thrives on challenge, continuous learning, growth, and the opportunity to try new things. With sites in the United States, European Union, and Asia, and over 2,200 employees worldwide, together, we will meet tomorrow's challenges today.

This position will support the R&D Operations Manager by leading one or more designated work areas while also performing hands-on manufacturing responsibilities as needed. This includes providing work direction and process training, managing and approving timecards, and ensuring scheduled jobs are completed on time.

The following challenges await you:

• Ensure scheduled jobs are completed on time and give work direction/assignments to assure customer shipment schedules are met.
• Ability to perform a wide variety of manufacturing processes and advanced set-ups throughout the facility as needed
• Supports technical activities and resources to avoid/minimize downtime, assist in setting manufacturing priorities and resolve manufacturing issues.
• Effectively escalate technical issues to supervisor and/or engineering in order to quickly identify and resolve issues
• Provides clear work directions to staff and maintains a visibly organized area.
• Drives and supports lean manufacturing methods throughout manufacturing. 
• Manages team conflict and escalates to supervisor as appropriate.
• Manages and approves assigned employee timecards.
• Assures availability of qualified technical resources on the production floor
• Promotes and supports cross-training efforts throughout the facility.
• Assist in the development of tools and set-up procedures to produce high quality product with minimal setup cycle times.
• Drives continuous improvements throughout the department. 
• Completes all administrative functions relating to completion of orders, including entering data into SAP.
• Follows set training program for position and ensures training requirements are up to date. 
• Demonstrates safe work habits, maintain clean and safe work area.
• Other duties may be assigned as required.

Your profile:

• High School Diploma required
• Technical Degree in relevant field is a plus
• A minimum of 7 years in medical device manufacturing including:
  • Microscope experience
  • Machine operation and assembler experience
  • Strong manual dexterity skills
  • Must have good basic math and English reading skills
  • Knowledge of Good Manufacturing Practices
  • Ability to read and apply technical data from product specifications
  • Ability to read and comprehend written procedures in English
  • Basic Math Calculations (adding/subtracting/multiplying/dividing)
  • Ability to use a calculator
  • Daily usage and interpretation of micrometers, rulers, and other measuring tools
• Demonstrated strong leadership and multitasking skills required 
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Previous working experience with ISO quality system required
• Lean manufacturing experience in a regulated environment a plus

Medevio is committed to providing competitive total compensation and benefits packages. The expected base salary hiring range for this position is between $26.00/hour and $32.00/hour, based upon a full-time schedule. This is a good faith estimate on the applicable range. Base salaries are determined by taking a variety of factors in account, including, but not limited to, candidate qualifications, geographic locations, market conditions and internal equity. This position is bonus eligible, with a target bonus of 2.5% of base salary depending upon company and individual performance. Our total compensation package also includes eligibility for comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, a 401(k) plan with company match, education reimbursement, paid parental leave and paid time off.