Manufacturing Systems Engineer II

Exceptional People. Hard Problems. Meaningful Careers. Big Impact.

Nowhere else can you touch as many life-changing medical technologies. At Forj Medical, we work side by side with more than 100 medical device companies from startups to global giants to bring life-enhancing technologies to market. Working with us means solving hard problems with extraordinary people in a collaborative work environment. Join us.

Job Summary:  

As a Manufacturing Systems Engineer, you'll work as part of a team or lead a team to design, install, monitor, and develop manufacturing systems, equipment and assembly lines supporting medical device manufacturing at Forj Medical. Manufacturing systems engineers work to integrate the entire manufacturing process. This ranges from production and supply right through to sales. 

Job Duties and Responsibilities:  

• Work closely with the Operations leadership to lead or execute transformation efficiencies and add new capabilities within our manufacturing systems environment
• Provide technical leadership for the selection, design, prototyping, testing, and implementation of improvements to our workflow systems across our manufacturing facilities
• Coordinate with or lead cross-functional teams to collect requirements and plan implementations
• Create technical artifacts for internal and vendor business partner review (i.e. workflows, business requirements, functional specifications, use cases)
• Lead requirement sessions with project teams, vendor business partners, developers, and others
• Drive assessment and validation processes to ensure there are no gaps in requirements and development deliverables
• Attending production meetings and forecasting production requirements
• Overseeing effective use of resources, e.g. raw materials, equipment, and staff
• Discussing and evaluating systems failures with operations managers and non-technical personnel
• Demonstrating new and existing equipment to manufacturing engineers, production support staff and production managers
• Meeting with managers to discuss methods of improving the productivity of existing systems, taking into consideration the use of the latest technology
• Sourcing new suppliers for manufacturing systems and/or equipment to support the manufacturing systems 
• Testing, monitoring, and evaluating new processes either systems and/or equipment
• Establishing and implementing the Forj Medical quality culture within the manufacturing environment
• Identify and benchmark against other production sites
• Mentor and train other engineers, production coordinators, etc in the in the production environment to become efficient and effective at their responsibilities  

Qualifications and Requirements:  

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, technical or scientific discipline
• 3 to 6 years engineering experience in an electronic-based manufacturing environment. Medical device preferred
• Work experience in technology systems implementation in a manufacturing environment\Experience in gathering technical requirements
• Mastery of creating various process artifacts – process maps, business requirement documents, and gap analysis documents.
• Customer service orientation with strong interpersonal skills including influencing and collaboration skills
• Able to work independently and to prioritize multiple competing assignments appropriately to meet deadlines while adjusting to a rapidly changing environment
• Ability to use critical judgement to operate effectively under conditions of moderate ambiguity
• Inherent ability to organize tasks and issues by order of importance
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Willingness and capability to learn quickly, especially in regard to new technologies required for accomplishing transformation initiative goals
• Working knowledge of the Microsoft Office product suite (Teams, Visio, Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint
• Working knowledge of Epicor, preferred