Engineering - Senior Process Engineer

Viant Medical Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

401k match

Paid time off and holidays

Tuition reimbursement

Life insurance

Financial planning assistance

Gym membership discount

Employee discounts

Pet insurance

Home ownership program

Job summary

Viant Medical Inc. is seeking a Senior Process Engineer to develop manufacturing processes for plastic injection molded components. You will establish injection molded cycles, define pre/post molded processes, and use statistical techniques to control variability.

You will support production by troubleshooting molding processes and tooling, and by defining mold maintenance requirements. You will lead process development to optimize efficiency, yields, and productivity while ensuring quality

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field.
• Excellent project management skills with multiple projects.
• 6 years’ experience in high-volume injection molding environment and mold-related activities.
• Strong injection molding troubleshooting and process optimization experience.
• Knowledge of part and mold design, mold fabrication, and resins.
• Familiarity with SPC, TQM, JIT and DFM principles.
• Proficiency with MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook).
• Excellent communication and record-keeping.

Responsibilities

• Develop programs/methods to optimize productivity and reduce cycle time, losses, and costs.
• Develop and execute project plans; document and implement with plant personnel.
• Establish process development technical guidelines.
• Ensure manufacturing requirements are properly developed with cross-functional teams.
• Ensure processes adhere to ISO 14385 standards.
• Continuously improve processes using DOE and other methods.
• Support product development and assist with new product launches.

Skills

Process engineering

Injection molding

DOE

Statistical methods

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Looking for work that matters? Join Viant and contribute to the design and manufacturing of medical technologies that improve patient outcomes. Guided by our promise—We’re In It For Life—you’ll build your career with a trusted industry innovator that invests in your growth, well-being, and ability to make a meaningful impact every day.

Benefits effective day one of hire!

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits
• 401k Plan with Company Match
• Generous Paid time off and paid Holidays
• Low-cost nutrition & mental health visits
• Tuition Reimbursement and career development programs
• Company-paid life insurance
• Access to individualized financial planning
• Voluntary Universal Life and Long-Term Care
• Voluntary Legal Plan
• Up to $150-off your gym membership annually
• Employee discount programs
• Pet Insurance
• Home Ownership Program

About the company:

Viant is a global medical device partner providing design, development, manufacturing, and assembly services through capabilities in materials, plastics, metals, extrusion, and automation. With nearly 6,000 employees across 24 locations worldwide, it delivers high-quality, life-enhancing products with the scale and expertise to bring devices to market efficiently. Learn more at Viant Medical’s website or in LinkedIn.

About the position:

Responsible for developing manufacturing processes for plastic injection molded components. The Senior Process Engineer will develop processes by establishing injection molded cycles of new and existing molds. The Senior Process Engineer will also define pre and post molded processes to optimize efficiencies, yields and productivity. The Senior Process Engineer will use process capability studies and other statistical techniques for defining process capability, identifying and eliminating sources of process variability. This individual will provide engineering support to production by troubleshooting injection molding processes and tooling, and by defining mold maintenance requirements. This individual will be responsible for providing customer support for new product development and resolving any quality problems with components.

Job Responsibilities:

• Develop programs and/or methods to optimize productivity and reduce cycle time, manufacturing losses, and overall costs.
• Develop and execute project plans. Develop documentation for each project and work with associated plant personnel to implement it.
• Establish process development technical guidelines.
• Ensure that manufacturing requirements are properly developed and documented in conjunction with appropriate manufacturing, production, and engineering personnel.
• Assure that the process of product adheres to ISO 14385 standards
• Continuously improve existing processes using design of experiments and other methods to increase efficiencies.
• Support the product development process by assisting the program teams as necessary to ensure successful product launches.
• Provide information and technical assistance to manufacturing, engineering, and production personnel as required.
• Implement Process Control and Process Discipline systems into manufacturing operations.
• Mold validation process set-up, troubleshooting and process monitoring.
• Quotes, procures, modifies and validates both new and existing production mold tooling.
• Resolves technical tooling and process problems associated with both new and old tooling.
• Assists in selection of tooling vendors.
• Directs vendor interface, coordinates in-process changes and approves tooling upon completion.
• Works with our vendors to perform new or modified component validations as applicable; determines the requirements and directs any tooling upgrades to existing tooling.
• Monitors all molding operations, tracking efficiency and potential issues.
• Scientific approach to problem solving machine issues. Tracks statistical data and utilizes SPC to continuous monitor and improve the efficiency of the molding operations.
• Participates in variation scrap and cost reduction opportunities.
• Works as a cross-functional team member with involvement in processes, various designs, troubleshooting, project management and cost analysis.
• Assists in the collection of information, selection and implementation of new molding projects.
• Creates procedures, routings and BOM’s. Assists with corrective actions to resolve non-conformances as root causes are identified.
• Optimize manufacturing practices.
• Improve work force by training Process Technicians and Mold Technicians on efficient machine.
• processing techniques as well as other data-based methods of decision making.
• Other projects and tasks, as assigned.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field experience
• Excellent project management skills, including managing multiple projects simultaneously.
• Position requires 6 years experience in high volume injection molding environment, design, qualification, validation, building of molds, etc.
• Strong injection molding experience in troubleshooting, optimizing processes and mold sampling.
• Knowledge of part and mold design, mold fabrication and plastic resins.
• Working knowledge of SPC, TQM, JIT and DFM principles.
• Proficiency with MS Office software suites (Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.).
• Excellent communication and record-keeping skills.