Technologist, Transfer Projects

Edwards Lifesciences Gruppe; Draper (UT); On-site; USD 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Edwards Lifesciences is seeking a Manufacturing Equipment Specialist to support transfer and validation activities for new products. You will troubleshoot, maintain, and validate equipment, supporting cross-functional teams with documentation and process improvements.

The role emphasizes strong communication, problem solving, and adherence to GDP in a medical device manufacturing environment. On-site in Utah, USA, with opportunities to contribute to critical patient-focused launches.

Qualifications

• HS Diploma or equivalent with 6 years related experience or
• Associate’s Degree or equivalent with 4 years related experience.
• Experience in manufacturing and/or medical device environment preferred.
• Strong communication and training skills; able to guide others.

Responsibilities

• Troubleshoot and maintain equipment to limit downtime and ensure validation compliance.
• Design and execute feasibility studies, tests, and protocols for equipment and processes.
• Perform preventive maintenance on complex equipment to validate operation.
• Investigate failures and write impact assessment reports for incidents.
• Collaborate with Quality on corrective actions, EWOs, ENCRs, and OOTs.
• Ensure documentation is properly archived and transferred to ECRs, SOPs, drawings, and tooling.

Skills

Communication

Problem solving

GDP / Good Documentation Practices

Analytical thinking

Project management basics

Troubleshooting equipment

Training & guidance

MS Office proficiency

Manufacturing equipment knowledge

Education

HS Diploma or equivalent

Associate’s Degree or equivalent

Tools

MS Office

JDE

QMS

PLM

Maximo

CAD

Job description

Imagine how your ideas and expertise can change a patient’s life. Our Global Operations & Quality team plays a central part in ensuring our products are delivered to patients with cardiovascular disease. You’ll partner cross-functionally with manufacturing operations, delivering thoughtful solutions to complex challenges all while developing your knowledge of the medical device industry. Whether your work includes strategic inventory planning, labeling, warehouse management, material handling, or any of our other supply chain opportunities, you will be making a meaningful contribution to our team and to patients all over the world. In this role, you will help bring life-changing products to patients by supporting the successful transfer of new products into manufacturing. Working closely with Transfer Engineering, Operations, and cross-functional partners, you'll provide technical expertise to ensure manufacturing readiness and contribute to smooth, successful commercial launches.

How you’ll make an impact:

• Troubleshoot and recommend maintenance to limit downtime, to keep production on schedule, and to ensure ongoing validation compliance.
• Design, set-up and execute feasibility studies, experiments, and tests - both creating and following established 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.
• Perform both scheduled and unscheduled preventive maintenance routines on a wider range of complex equipment to validate user operation and avoid program down time.
• Check for failures in more complex equipment and processes, and perform corrective actions to affected areas that have down time, including conducting and writing impact assessment reports of incidents.
• Collaborate with Quality in devising and implementing corrective actions, exception work orders (EWOs), Equipment Non-conformance Reports (ENCRs), and Out of Tolerance (OOTs).
• 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.

What you’ll need (Required):

• H.S. Diploma or equivalent with 6 years related experience or
• Associate’s Degree or equivalent with 4 years related experience

What else we look for (Preferred):

• Previous experience in manufacturing and/or medical device experience.
• Strong written and verbal communication, interpersonal, and relationship building skills including formulating work instructions and providing guidance and training to lower-level employees with little to no direction.
• Problem solving methodology, root cause analysis, and GDP (Good Documentation Practices).
• Strong computer skills, including usage of MS Office Suite, manufacturing software (JDE, QMS, PLM, Maximo); and CAD if applicable.
• Full knowledge of validation and improvement of automated equipment.
• Ability to troubleshoot manufacturing equipment.
• Ability to understand the fundamentals of project management; Lead projects related to new equipment validation, equipment investigations, testing, objective evidence of product dispositions and rework.
• Full knowledge of routine preventive maintenance of production equipment and electrical, mechanical, electronic, pneumatic, and controls.
• Knowledge of Good Manufacturing and Good Documentation Practices supporting a medical device environment.
• Adhere to all company rules and requirements (e.g., pandemic protocols, Environmental Health & Safety rules) and take adequate control measures in preventing injuries to themselves and others as well as to the protection of environment and prevention of pollution under their span of influence/control.

Edwards is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer including protected Veterans and individuals with disabilities. Edwards Lifesciences is the leading global structural heart innovation company, driven by a passion to improve patient lives. Through breakthrough technologies, world‑class evidence and partnerships with clinicians and healthcare stakeholders, our employees are inspired by our patient‑focused culture to deliver life‑changing innovations to those who need them most.