Development Engineer II

We are looking for an experienced Development Engineer II, reporting to the Vice President of Engineering. This position is responsible for process development, prototyping, and product manufacturability at Innovize, primarily for the Rotary Converting value stream. These duties include providing design for manufacturability input for new and existing products, evaluating and selecting robust manufacturing processes and materials, acquiring equipment and tooling, developing and debugging processes, creating product drawings and press diagrams, and executing IQ/OQ/PQ validation protocols and reports. While working closely with customers, manufacturing, sales, and quality, this individual will lead development projects that meet development goals as well as customer expectations and manufacturing expectations for quality, standard cost, and reproducibility prior to transfer into production.

Duties/Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Ensure that a Job Hazard Analysis is completed on all new equipment prior to release for production use.
• Provide lead technical role in ensuring that when new jobs are transferred to production, all necessary equipment, tooling, and processes have been properly developed, validated, and documented to ensure consistent production of high-quality product at or below the quoted cost.
• Understand and apply the technical tools of Lean Six Sigma Manufacturing during development to ensure appropriate considerations were made with regard to Single Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED), quality plans, process capability, cellular layout, Poke Yoke (mistake proofing), and single-unit WIP.
• Promote a scientific approach to process development at Innovize that is based on understanding process input variables, limits testing, process controls, and process capability of the output.
• Provide the lead technical interface with customers, material suppliers, test labs, and consultants for new products in development.
• Understand and comply with GMP and ISO13485 requirements.
• Support the sales team with communicating the value of development runs to customers prior to production.
• Complete other duties as assigned.

Accountabilities:

• Accountable for meeting the Job Hazard Analysis / Safety goals for new and existing equipment.
• Accountable for meeting the actual-to-estimate cost goals for development jobs.
• Accountable for meeting company on-time delivery goals.
• Accountable for achieving the closing meeting goals for development projects.
• Accountable for meeting specification and test method goals.
• Accountable for meeting the Product Quality goals.
• Accountable for completing Strategy Management tasks within the commit-date.