Production Engineer

GETINGE GROUP

Ever since Maquet's founding in Germany in 1838, it has helped hospitals with innovative products such as the first motorized operating table. A Maquet table was used for the first heart transplant surgery in 1967, in South Africa. Firsthand understanding of clinical challenges and continuous optimization of its products established Maquet as a leading provider of medical systems. 

Today Maquet is a product brand within Getinge. The Maquet brand provides a broad range of products and innovative treatment solutions and infrastructure functions for extremely demanding hospital departments, including operating rooms, hybrid operating rooms, catheter laboratories and intensive care units as well as intra- and inter-hospital patient transportation.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering - preferably: Industrial / Mechanical Engineering
• Min. 2 years experience in an industrial environment (multinational environment / medical industry is an asset) 
• Excellent command of both written & spoken English;
• Good knowledge of MS Office applications and an applicable knowledge of CAD (AutoCAD is preferred)
• Background & experience in project & production engineering, as well as R&D issues

• Good knowledge of problem solving tools (knowledge of 6 Sigma tools is a plus)
• Having ambition to develop his/her carreer in the medical industry
• Strongly creative with an analytical mind, able to use initiatives
• Able to work with multinational teams
• Good team working skills with the willingness to accomplish tasks in harmony with the other team members
• Interested and eager to learn & update his/her knowledge
• Disciplined way of working with a high ability to concentrate on both processes & results
• A critical mind with the desire & ability to put designed solutions into practice
• Demonstrative experience in documenting work procedures
•  Ability to take part in the planning & implementation (taking on the leading role if required) of significant projects as part of a multi-disciplinary team
•  No restrictions to travel abroad
• No military obligation for male candidates

Job Description:

• Design & management of new transfer projects including workflows, equipment, material, etc.
• Ensuring that the production output meets the KPI's in terms of quality, quantity, scrap level & safety, etc.
• Participating in process development researches and implementing results with concern for his/her perimeter
• Proactive in finding permanent solutions for engineering problems
• Taking an active role in the selection & purchasing of equipments & machinery
• Drive the integration of new technologies in terms of equipment designs/upgrades
• Developing & implementing plans to improve quality, efficiency & the reducing of costs
• Determination of the bottleneck production, performing researches for debottlenecking, process improvement & development to increase productivity & minimize the costs
• Preparing the main database (Equipment data, instructions etc.) as well as monitoring revisions, applying the analyses to the Document Management System
• Management of internal improvement activities & CAPAs