Operations Engineer

Overview
The Product Engineer responsibility is to apply engineering principles and techniques to manage product issues in a manufacturing environment to meet organizational objectives. His/her works also include evaluating the process efficiency, quality, and safety of finished products. He/She needs to perform test correlation, evaluation, and test characterization on new products and implement cost-effective solutions for product cost improvement. The role will require the product engineer to perform value-added, value engineering studies on products and lead design for manufacturing (DFM) efforts to drive continuous productivity improvements on new products and transferred products. The role is also responsible for developing and automating manufacturing processes to improve efficiency and eliminate redundant steps in the manufacturing processes to achieve cycle time reduction. In this aspect, the product engineer will also be responsible for studying product transfers in identifying the most optimal way to manufacture the product, both from an in-house and outsource build review and structured the product bill of material (BOM) according to support these efforts.

Qualifications:

1. University degree or postgraduate in Engineering Degree
2. Experience in working on LC and MS instrument preferred.
3. Strong leadership and analytical skills, 6 Sigma trained
4. Working knowledge in ISO 9001 and/or ISO 13485
5. Proven experience in supply assurance and working with contract manufacturers
6. Ability to work with ambiguity and in complex situation
7. Operates with integrity, transparency and humility
8. Balances clear strategic thinking and accountability in execution to deliver results
9. Actively creates the conditions for Waters’ people and teams to succeed

Responsibilities:

1. Identify opportunities to drive manufacturing and assemblies’ productivity to bring down product cost by reviewing product level opportunities e.g. purchase assemblies at system level like Bottle Tray kits, Waste bottle kits, installation kits.
2. Drive sub-assemblies routing time improvement.
3. Drive manufacturing productivity to optimize assembly time to lower product cost, in FPY, assembly and routing time, targeting year-on-year improvement on product cost of 3% to 5% on 2nd tier suppliers.
4. Participate in value engineering efforts and projects to drive product cost down, working across functions with LC / MS R&D, Engineering team.
5. Support DFM review with Contract manufacturers to improve product quality on a quarterly basis.
6. Review manufacturing process change requests and monitor the implementation of these changes to track the cost-effectiveness and productivity in mass production on a weekly basis.
7. Identify opportunities for automation and process change to meet efficiency, quality, and safety of finished products.

Company Description
Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT), the world's leading specialty measurement company, has pioneered chromatography, mass spectrometry, and thermal analysis innovations serving the life, materials, and food sciences for more than 60 years. With more than 7,000 employees worldwide, Waters operates directly in 35 countries, including 15 manufacturing facilities, with products available in more than 100 countries. Our team focuses on creating business advantages for laboratory-dependent organizations to enable significant advancement in healthcare delivery, environmental management, food safety, and water quality. Working at Waters enables our employees to unlock the potential of their careers. Our global team is driven by purpose. We strive to be better, learn, and improve every day in everything we do. We’re the problem solvers and innovators that aren’t afraid to take risks to transform the world of human health and well-being. We’re all in it together delivering benefit as one to provide the insights needed today in order to solve the challenges of tomorrow. Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our core values at Waters Corporation. It is our responsibility to actively implement programs and practices to drive inclusive behavior and increase diversity across the organization. We are united by diversity and thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products, our customers, and our community. Waters is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or protected Veteran status.