Provide technical manufacturing support to Operations and Engineering.
**Key Responsibilities**:
- Perform weekly preventive maintenance routines for equipment to avoid program down time.
- Check for failures in equipment and perform corrective actions to affected areas that have down time, including conducting and writing impact assessment reports of incidents.
- Execute experiments and tests (following protocols) to develop findings for the validation and improvement of equipment and manufacturing processes/methods based on engineering principles; analyze results, make recommendations, and develop reports for Engineering review.
- Review documentation and take appropriate actions to ensure that information is appropriately catalogued and follow through to validation and qualification of equipment, including transferring information to appropriate locations, e.g., ECRs, SOPs, drawings, and tooling, for Engineering approval.
- Identify potential improvement opportunities and propose solutions to optimize equipment, e.g., re-design/design of basic equipment, tools, fixtures, for Engineering review.
- Troubleshoot basic manufacturing equipment.
- May lead small projects related to new equipment validation, equipment investigations, testing, objective evidence of product dispositions and rework.
- Utilize manufacturing software (e.g., JDE, QMS,PLM) to update documentation in systems.
- Provide coaching and guidance to technicians.
- Other incidental duties.
**Education**:
Technical Degree in Industrial Maintenance, Electronics, Electronical, Mechanical, Electromechanical, Engineering or diploma in related fields.
**Experience**:
More than 5 years of experience in preventive and corrective maintenance for production equipment, ability to troubleshoot manufacturing equipment and moderate knowledge of automated equipment, air conditioning system and chillers. Required
In addition, experience in manufacturing and medical device industry or related. Required
**Availability to Work Shift C (Night Shift)**
**Additional Skills**:
Ability to coordinate the execution of preventive maintenance routines for equipment.
Good written and verbal communication, interpersonal, and relationship building skills.
Ability to read, comprehend and write English.
Problem solving methodology, root cause analysis, and GDP (Good Documentation Practices)
Moderate knowledge of automated equipment.
Ability to troubleshoot manufacturing equipment.
Knowledge of routine preventive maintenance of production equipment.
Knowledge of electrical, mechanical, electronic, pneumatic, and controls.
Strict attention to detail.
Must be able to work under limited supervision.
About Edwards Lifesciences
Edwards Lifesciences is the global leader in patient-focused medical innovations for structural heart disease, as well as critical care and surgical monitoring. Driven by a passion to help patients, the company collaborates with the world's leading clinicians and researchers to address unmet healthcare needs, working to improve patient outcomes and enhance lives. Headquartered in Irvine, California, Edwards Lifesciences has extensive operations in North America, Europe, Japan, Latin America and Asia and currently employs over 18,500 individuals worldwide.
For us, helping patients is not a slogan - it's our life's work. From developing devices that replace or repair a diseased heart valve to creating new technologies that monitor vital signs in the critical care setting, we focus on helping patients regain and improve the quality of their life.
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