Equipment Engineer, Shift: 10:00am-6:00pm

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Published on: Sep 26, 2024

Country: United States

Company: Luminex Corporation

Job Category: Operations

Employment type: Regular Full Time

Job Scope: The Equipment Engineer will apply fundamental engineering principles towards the maintenance and optimization of equipment and procedures to achieve better maintainability, reliability, and availability of equipment. He/she will have proven skills in the areas of equipment maintenance, equipment design, implementation of automated control systems, and equipment validations. Able to collaborate with vendors, suppliers, and internal cross functional teams to ensure effective validation, maintenance, and calibration of critical equipment per cGMP. Supports applicable regulations including ISO13485, Local, State, and/or Federal requirements.

Shift: Daytime, 10:00am-6:00pm

Key Responsibilities and Duties:

• Lead initiatives to improve production processes to grow productivity, increase manufacturing yields, reduce production costs and decrease scrap. Collaborate with manufacturing engineering on automation projects to improve quality and manufacturing efficiency.
• Support manufacturing engineering in the development of equipment URS (user requirement specifications), as well as the development, execution and reporting of validation protocols (for installation qualifications, operational qualifications, performance qualifications and process validations).
• Lead the administration of Luminex's asset management system to ensure the maintenance system is compliant with cGMP, Luminex's quality system, and related regulations. Responsible for creating, maintaining and implementing periodic maintenance and calibration schedules.
• Perform preventative maintenance and calibrations on equipment per asset management schedules. Perform updates in the asset management system to record all work performed. Use the asset management software to create reports for management.
• Troubleshoot manufacturing processes / equipment and provide manufacturing engineering support to resolve production or equipment issues. Lead efforts to perform root cause investigations, troubleshoot issues and address root causes. Sustain record integrity of all issues and resolutions in the asset management system.
• Diagnose equipment failures, finds root causes, and communicate actions taken to the rest of the team.
• Become an expert level trainer on all machines in assigned areas, and be responsible for up leveling shift technicians.
• Create, implement, and improve project management documents and schedules.
• Perform major equipment repairs and rebuilds.
• Participate in spare part analysis and inventory development, cost reduction and improvement.
• Investigate and implement countermeasures to prevent repetitive breakdowns.
• Develop business cases for improvement projects and equipment acquisitions.
• Manages machine control code modification, creation and documentation.
• Installation and startup of systems of new equipment.
• Directs outside contractors in performing electrical, mechanical projects and repairs.
• Day to day coverage of production line equipment quickly respond to alarms, breakdowns, and production requests to minimize downtime.
• Support the development of manufacturing processes by recommending equipment purchases, repairs, upgrades, obsolescence, best practices, and maintenance schedule changes to improve efficiency and cost within the manufacturing environment.
• Schedule and supervise visits from service contractors to perform repairs, maintenance, and calibration.
• Proficient in technical writing. Ability to write clear, concise and complete (detailed) manufacturing standard operating procedures (SOPs), technical reports, and other documents as needed.
• Use CAD to design tooling and fixtures in order to upgrade or repair an equipment or process.
• Perform capacity and equipment efficiency analysis to optimize manufacturing processes. Able to develop asset performance metrics (MTBF, MTTR, MTTF, OEE, etc) and create plans to improve metrics and performance.
• Responsible for performing assigned tasks in accordance with applicable Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) regulations and Company EHS policies.
• Perform other related duties as required or assigned.
• May supervise technicians. Responsible for enforcing all EHS policies in their span of control.

Education Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical, Chemical or Mechanical Engineering required.

Experience Qualifications:

• 2+ Years Proficient in PLC coding and troubleshooting required.
• 2+ Years Thorough understanding of quality control, process control, corrective actions, root cause analysis, failure mode effects analysis (FMEA), design of experiments (DOE) and asset performance metrics, and their application as a problem identification and resolution tool required.
• 2+ Years Extensive experience in process automation, equipment design, validation, and hands on maintenance required.
• 1+ Years Experience with basic machine tools and machining desirable required.
• 2+ Years Experience in in-vitro diagnostics manufacturing, medical device manufacturing, pharmaceutical manufacturing or other related industries preferred.
• 2+ Years Experience working in clean room manufacturing environments preferred.
• 2+ Years Computer skills in Microsoft Office applications, asset management software, ERP software, CAD software and MINITAB preferred.
• 2+ Years Experience with reliability centered maintenance preferred.

Training and Skills:

• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret equipment manuals, electrical/ mechanical /P&I schematics, general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures and/or governmental regulations. (High proficiency)
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, manufacturing documents, maintenance schedules and standard operating procedures. (High proficiency)
• Ability to effectively present technical information and respond to questions from a variety of people that include managers, clients, customers, vendors and the general public. (High proficiency)
• Ability to apply advanced mathematical concepts such as exponents, logarithms, quadratic equations, and permutations. Ability to apply mathematical operations such as frequency distribution, determination of test reliability and validity, analysis of variance, correlation techniques, sampling theory and actor analysis. (High proficiency)
• Ability to handle and reason through complex information, define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw objective conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables. (High proficiency)

Standard Working Conditions:

• Possible exposure to biological or chemical hazard, extensive noise, and/or working with lasers - Occasionally
• Work situations include dealing with people; working alone; making judgments and decisions; and directing, controlling or planning the activity of others - Frequently

Travel Requirements:

• 10% Travel may be required.

What we offer:

Receive a competitive salary and benefits package as you grow your career at DiaSorin. Join our team and discover how your work can impact the lives of people all over the world.