Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing Engineer — Med Device Scale-Up

Imbed Biosciences Inc.; Madison (WI); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Imbed Biosciences is seeking a hands-on Manufacturing Process Engineer to develop, scale, optimize, and sustain manufacturing processes for advanced medical-device products. You will transition processes from pilot-scale development to robust, full-scale production, including continuous roll-to-roll coating, web handling, converting, and related manufacturing operations.

The role partners with R&D, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, and equipment suppliers to translate product requirements

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related technical discipline.
• 3+ years of manufacturing or process-engineering experience in production, pilot manufacturing, or process development.
• Experience developing, scaling, troubleshooting, or optimizing manufacturing processes.
• Strong understanding of process controls, variation, equipment capability, root-cause analysis, and statistical methods.

Responsibilities

• Lead the transition of manufacturing processes from pilot scale to full-scale commercial production.
• Develop, characterize, optimize, and document manufacturing processes, operating parameters, and standardized methods.
• Establish critical process parameters, operating windows, process limits, and manufacturing controls.
• Design and execute engineering trials, DOE, process-capability studies, and structured experiments.
• Support new-product introduction, technology transfer, production ramp-up, and manufacturing-readiness activities.
• Develop and optimize roll-to-roll coating, drying, web handling, tension control, alignment, winding, unwinding, and converting processes.
• Establish controls for coating-thickness uniformity, coating weight, web speed, web tension, drying conditions, and dimensional consistency.
• Troubleshoot defects including coating non-uniformity, wrinkles, web-tracking issues, edge defects, delamination, and material variation.
• Evaluate relationships among raw materials, equipment settings, environmental conditions, and finished-product performance.
• Use process-control software, sensors, automated inspection, machine vision, and manufacturing data systems where appropriate.
• Lead structured root-cause analysis and corrective actions for manufacturing-process issues.
• Analyze data to identify sources of variation, defects, downtime, scrap, and yield loss.
• Apply 5-Why, Fishbone, FMEA, DOE, SPC, Pareto analysis, and process-capability analysis.
• Improve process capability, first-pass yield, throughput, equipment reliability, material utilization, and manufacturing cost.

Skills

Process development

Scale-up

Root-cause analysis

Statistical methods

Roll-to-roll

Quality systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

PLC systems

Process-control software

Statistical software

Job description

Imbed Biosciences is seeking a hands-on Manufacturing Process Engineer to develop, scale, optimize, and sustain manufacturing processes for advanced medical-device products. You will transition processes from pilot-scale development to robust, full-scale production, including continuous roll-to-roll coating, web handling, converting, and related manufacturing operations.

The role partners with R&D, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, and equipment suppliers to translate product requirements