Engineering Project Leader - Ultrasound Probe Refurbishment jobs at Ge Healthcare

• Development of repair and inspection technologies, process qualification, industrialization. Related program deliverables to repair facilities for new and updated processes.

• Developing in-depth knowledge of a technical discipline. Uses prior experience and acquired technical expertise to execute strategy.

• In-depth understanding of key business drivers; uses this understanding to accomplish own work. In-depth understanding of how work of own team integrates with other teams and contributes to the area.

• Uses some level of judgment and has ability to propose different solutions outside of set parameters but with guidance. Uses prior experience and on-the-job training to solve straightforward tasks. Has access to technical skills and analytic thinking required to solve problems. May use multiple internal sources outside of own team to arrive at decisions.

• A job at this level is likely to be an individual contributor with proven interpersonal skills or an early people leader who can hire and develop talent. Provides informal guidance to new team members.

• Bachelor's degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math) field from an accredited university or college.

• Minimum 6 years of work experience in product design and/or manufacturing.

• Minimum 3 years of process development experience including verification and validation.

• Ability and willingness to travel up to 20% of the time.

• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.

• Strong oral and written communication skills.

• Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve technical problems.

• Ability to document, plan, market, and execute programs.

• Experience medical ultrasound probe design, manufacturing, or repair/refurbishment including familiarity with associated product quality requirements.

• Demonstrated facilitation, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills in driving closure on decisions and issues.

• Familiarity with ISO, FDA, and other regulatory standards.

• Experience with entire product lifecycle of GE HealthCare products, including experience with GE HealthCare systems such as: MyWorkshop, Oracle, Quality Management System, etc.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Safety: Owns all safety metrics for the department including continuous improvement to drive risk reduction & injury prevention.
• Quality: Leverage Lean Six Sigma mindset to deliver product quality improves resulting in scrap reductions and better field quality.
• Delivery: Responsible for on-time delivery and inventory of department.
• Cost: Deliver financial results aligned with productivity targets and budget. Own productivity roadmap to delivery sustained YoY improvements.
• People: Foster a culture focused on people development.
• Work cross-functionally with QA, AME, and Engineering teams to deliver department/site goals.
• Lead compliance efforts in support of plant goals.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree with 5 years production/supply chain leadership.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and develop teams.
• Demonstrated ability to identify/implement best practices and deal with high levels of ambiguity

Desired Characteristics

• Experience working in regulated industry
• Design or manufacturing engineering experience
• Functional manager experience

• Interfaces with other departments in the execution of duties to ensure the orderly flow of material and information

• Execute training plans

• Perform basic trouble shooting encompassing multiple variables and unknowns to achieve root cause analysis and problem resolution

• Utilize basic technical communications throughout the test process for production/Refurb assemblies/systems

• Provide evaluation/constructive feedback in the development of internal and external engineering, manufacturing, or service documentation

• Provide strong individual contributions to team goals

• Participate in LEAN process improvement activities to improve quality, process flow, and cycle or TAKT times

• Comply with EHS regulations and policies and escalate concerns/suggestions to leadership

• Maintain daily production output

• Identify and report defects in assigned area

• Engage in daily 5s activities

• High School diploma/GED or Local Equivalent and 2 years technical experience

• Ability to work independently

• Demonstrated basic computer skills and ability to navigate online instructions

• Ability to draw accurate conclusions from test data, malfunctions, or deviations, and assist with corrections to the existing design or process

• Associates degree in an Electronics or Engineering field

• Electrical experience

• Experience in medical manufacturing or other highly regulated industry preferred.

Our total rewards are designed to unlock your ambition by giving you the boost and flexibility you need to turn your ideas into world-changing realities. Our salary and benefits are everything you’d expect from an organization with global strength and scale, and you’ll be surrounded by career opportunities in a culture that fosters care, collaboration and support.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Ensure customer focus by communicating and building rapport with customers as required and ensuring the “voice of the customer” is reflected in all ecosystem solutions designed, built, and delivered
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate customer needs, market and competitive analysis, regulatory requirements, and other factors into product strategy and detailed design inputs
• Drive Ultrasound Digital collaboration offerings to meet the needs of customers, establishing clear value propositions and market in a differentiated way
• Be responsible for strategy and execution of the product roadmaps and new product introductions
• Define and own business cases in collaboration with Ultrasound segment product managers
• Develop and adapt business models as the digital healthcare market continues to evolve
• Maximize customer satisfaction and engagement with our solutions
• Lead a cross-functional team to deliver world class solutions to customers while ensuring compliance with quality systems, regulatory requirements, and commercial process
• Partner with internal and external domain experts to highlight emerging practice trends and product/content needs of the customer
• Support team execution by resolving roadblocks, and organizational interdependencies
• Manage stakeholder communication and progress reporting at various levels of the organization including leadership and executives
• Track metrics, budgets, programs, and projects using Lean principals
• Perform other duties asassigned.

Quality Specific Goals:

• Aware of and comply with the GEHC Quality Manual, Quality Management System, Quality Management Policy, Quality Goals, and applicable laws and regulations as they apply to this job type/position
• Complete all planned Quality & Compliance training within the defined deadlines
• Identify and report any quality or compliance concerns and take immediate corrective action as required
• Identify continuous improvement activities by initiating the implementation of process and product quality improvement initiatives

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or in “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)
• A minimum of 6 years of professional experience in product management, product marketing, product development and/or related field, leading cross functional product life-cycle management, and/or large global projects.
  

Product Management Expertise:

• Demonstrated competency in providing leadership and direction to cross-functional teams and resources
• Proven experience in product life-cycle management
• Experience managing financials including business cases, budgets, spend, and liquidations
• Demonstrated customer focus – evaluates decisions through the eyes of the customer
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, effectively evaluates information/data to make decisions, anticipates obstacles and develops plans to resolve, creates actionable strategies and operational plans
• Change oriented – actively generates process improvements, champions and drives change initiatives, confronts difficult circumstances in creative ways, balances multiple and competing priorities and executes accordingly
  

Business Acumen:

• Demonstrate ability to engage and communicate with customers
• Expert in navigating through business ambiguity and bringing clarity to business leaders and the team
• Demonstrate detailed knowledge of business operations and strategic direction, including merger & acquisition opportunities
• Understands Medical Device Design Principals, requirements for meeting various country regulatory clearances, and demonstrates awareness of industry dynamics
• Understands industry trends and competitive landscape and the implications for GEHC business; partner with business leaders to align projects with business goals and needs
  

Leadership:

• Strong leadership skills with ability to influence outcomes and organize teams to attain shared goals
• Recommends allocation of budget to meet product or business success
• Facilitates dialogues that leads to actionable recommendations to mitigate risks or remove “roadblocks”
• Influences through others; uses experts or other third parties to influence; builds direct and "behind the scenes" (indirect) support for ideas
• Experience leading and working with global teams
• Applies knowledge to coach and mentor others
  

Personal Attributes:

• Excellent influencing, interpersonal and communications skills (both written and verbal) with all levels of an organization
• Demonstrates strong presentation skills; able to effectively present to senior leaders in a concise manner, appropriately communicating the status and risks of a program
• Self-starter - requires minimal direction to accomplish goals, energizing, and results oriented
• Strong team player – collaborates well with others to solve problems and actively incorporates input from various sources
• Takes a holistic perspective, objectively compares multiple tradeoffs, and empathizes with multiple points of view

Eligibility Requirements:

• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required.
• Must be willing to travel
• Must be willing to work out of an office located in Wisconsin

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or equivalent
• 7+ years of experience working in software engineering, including the design and development of highly scalable web services
• 2+ years of experience as a people manager in a software development organization, responsible for hiring and developing a team
• 5+ years of experience planning, designing, developing, and delivering commercial and/or consumer software
• Experience in partnering and effectively communicating with product and program management teams
• Knowledge of technology and modern development practices including Object Oriented principles (C++, Java or similar language), Service Oriented Architecture

Desired Qualifications:

• Master’s in computer science or a related field
• 5+ years of software development management experience
• Deep hands-on technical expertise
• Project Management experience with agile development methodology
• Ability to take raw product requirements and create software architectures and designs to bring them to life
• Excellent interpersonal skills: ability to work successfully with teams across the organization, including Engineering, Program Management, Quality Assurance, and Senior Leadership
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills; ability to use data and metrics to back up assumptions and opinions
  

• Manage an operation, business, unit, or part of a production facility in order to reach defined targets in quality, cost, delivery and safety. Ensure continuous business improvement according to benchmarks and standards. Team management of salaried employees. This does not include production supervisors who oversee hourly employees.

• Requires specialized knowledge within the function. Influence the development of strategy for the area of responsibility, including control of resources and influences policy formulation.

• Interprets simple internal and external business challenges and recommends best practices to improve products, processes or services. Stays informed of industry trends that may inform work.

• Uses high level of judgment to make decisions and handle complex tasks or problems in areas of operational, product management, manufacturing, technology or engineering. Has ability to assess quality of information given and ask pertinent questions to stakeholders. Able to offer new solutions to problems outside of set parameters and is able to construct and provide recommendations. Uses multiple internal and some external sources outside of own function to help arrive at a decision.

• May lead functional teams or projects with minimal resource requirements, risk, and/or complexity. Communicates difficult concepts and may influence others' options on particular topics. May guide others to consider a different point of view.

• Bachelor’s Degree with 5 years production, supply chain experience or leadership or High School diploma/GED and 10 years production or supply chain experience.

• Led teams of 10–20 personnel, fostering collaboration and achieving production and delivery targets.

• Managed end-to-end supply chain or manufacturing projects, with the ability to identify & implement best practices along with delivering on time and within budget.

• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering field

• 5+ years of experience in verbal and written communication across cross-functional teams, suppliers, and stakeholders.

• MBA or Master’s degree

• Experience withApplied project management methodologies (e.g., Lean, Six Sigma) to improve operational efficiency.

• Knowledge and understanding of production processes, work instructions, documentation configuration control, non-conforming & rework documentation requirements and operating within them to ensure that a component conforms to its specification.

• In-depth knowledge and compliance with the GE Healthcare (GEHC)Quality Manual, Quality Management System, Quality Management Policy, Quality Goals, applicable laws, and regulations as they apply to this job type / position.

• Provide technical assistance to production associates.

• Develop and execute technical training as required.

• Interface with other departments in the execution of duties to ensure the orderly flow of material and information.

• Utilize basic technical communications throughout the new product cycle to improve internal models and/or externally sourced components in terms of system performance, reliability, functionality, and serviceability.

• Provide evaluation, constructive feedback, and leadership in the development of internal and external engineering, manufacturing, or service documentation.

• Provide strong individual contributions in the context of achieving team goals.

• Comply with Environmental, health, and safety (EHS)regulations and policies and complete all planned Quality & Compliance training within the defined deadlines.

• Identify and report any quality or compliance concerns and take immediate corrective action as required.

• Perform trouble shooting encompassing multiple variables and unknowns to achieve root cause analysis and problem resolution, including analysis and disposition of non-conforming material.

• This role requires onsite attendance.

• Associate degree, or a High School diploma and minimum 5 years technical experience.

• Proficiency to logically troubleshoot at subsystem and system level, using identifiable problem-solving techniques.

• Demonstrated experience supporting production processes.

• Proficiency to understand and interpret basic written technical information.

• Demonstrated ability to work well with limited direction and information.

• Bachelor’s degree in Manufacturing, Engineering or Technology related fields.

• Greater than 5 years experience in a manufacturing machining environment.

• Strong technical knowledge in CNC machining, tooling, and measurement systems.

• Demonstrated ability to write concise technical specifications and train production associates in process changes.

• Demonstrates initiative and desire to improve production processes.

• Demonstrates adaptability and flexibility, being open to change and responding to new information, changing priorities, unexpected circumstances, and changes in volume/ processes.

• Experience working in a regulated industry Experience working with GE Healthcare's QMS requirements.