Philips Senior Process Engineer 

Kenya, Nairobi County 

711257508

Senior Process Engineer

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

• As a Senior Process Engineer within Philips Ultrasound Shanghai, this position will partner with other R&D engineers on process design and development of Philips Ultrasound Shanghai transducers. This engineering role will focus on developing new and/or state-of-art technics and step by step process needed for realization of transducers design to ensure the transducers can be produced with high quality manufacturability and practical and first class craftsmanship. This engineer will also work closely with manufacturing to ensure the designed/developed transducers can be smoothly produced in quantity and with high quality.
• This engineer will participate in all phases of Philips Ultrasound Shanghai transducers development process from specify, design, implementation, and testing (verification and validation). Work closely with other engineering team members to plan, design, review, implementation, testing, and deliver results on time to meet the customer requirements. Specifically, the job responsibilities include:
• Works as a key technical contributor in design and development of Philips Ultrasound Shanghai transducers working with R&D and other functional team members, translating commercial, functional and technical design specifications into technical concepts on appliance level that can be practically realized.
• Develops new or state-of-art technics/technologies to build Philips Ultrasound Shanghai transducers in manufacturing line;
• Works with senior engineering staff for sound judgment and making decisions.
• Pro-actively seeks out, learns, applies and shares with others new technical skills on an ongoing basis.
• Good understanding of and can lead the team to follow product/transducer creation processes, development phases, deliverables, and phase reviews processes
• Responsible for the assigned tasks’ quality of work, reliability, schedule, cost and completion of tasks on one or more modules.
• Deliver quality results in assignments that includes the following:
• Develop step by step processes/procedures using new and state-of-art technologies whenever needed for realizing Philips Ultrasound Shanghai designed transducers that can be practically and quantity built in manufacturing line with high volume, high yield, and high quality.
• Plays a key role in transition from R&D design and development to Manufacturing by working closely with Production Engineering team and manufacturing team to resolve any issues during the transition and in post release support.
• Ensure the materials used in developing and manufacturing Philips SHA transducers are adequate and well selected to meet project metrics
• Participate in manufacturing staff training in getting manufacturing staff to be ready for mass production of NPI projects.
• Support sustaining and post release team on analyzing root cause of field issues and provide input to possible solutions.
• Support releasing needed documentations for Philips’ transducers release (Feasibility, NPI and productivity) to manufacturing line
• Communicate with Philips Ultrasound engineering/project team members in Andover, Bothell, and Reedsville to resolve technical and test equipment support
• Participate in NPI or sustaining release process that in compliance with Philips Ultrasound Shanghai QMS from Process Engineering perspective.

主要挑战

• Ability to work effectively on transducer process development in complex projects with R&D and other cross functions, operate independently, acquires good technical skill for issues resolving and troubleshooting, and deliver solid results on time and as job requirements specified

岗位要求

• Demonstrated history of solid occupational ethics
• Requires an equivalent of Master degree or higher in Materials Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or in equivalent field, or with demonstrated strong experience in the relevant industry in the field of transducers development
• Minimum 3 years of work experience in the field of transducers process development, and have a thorough understanding of modern engineering tools, methods, processes, and practices; Solid experience with test equipment, have strong manufacturing process knowledge and experience of realizing transducers design.
• Familiar with state-of-the-art development techniques, have good knowledge of realizing a design of transducers and/or similar products with logical and easy to follow practical steps, good experience with Tolerance analysis and quality sense.
• Ability to work effectively in complex projects following product release processes; Strong ability to operate independently; Good technical skill for issues resolving and troubleshooting
• Acts as a mentor to EIs, EIIs in the engineering team, and steer skills to focus on technical and project problem solving skills;
• Able to effectively work within a project team and utilizes resources to produce optimal results
• Good verbal and written communication skills. Able to effectively communicate and/or present complex technical issues to engineers and managers
• Good knowledge and understanding of technical requirements associated with area of work and how it relates to the final product (e.g., acoustics/materials engineering, transducers development).
• Proficient in both Chinese & English

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