Job Title
Senior Architect Manufacturing Processes
Job Description
Job Description
Join us as a Senior Architect Manufacturing Processes at Philips Innovation Engineering, playing a vital role in our growth. You will be a key contributor to multidisciplinary project teams, collaborating with technical experts from Philips Innovation Engineering and our customers. You will lead and influence, ensuring high-quality manufacturing processes and actively contributing to innovation in our products and manufacturing processes.
Your role:
- Translation of product and business requirements into manufacturing system models containing manufacturing process requirements, high level manufacturing process & equipment design, risk management, integration aspects and manufacturing process verification via pre-defined test strategies.
- Definition and management of technical budgets, resulting in a system decomposition and allocation of derived requirements down to manufacturing processes.
- Development of manufacturing processes and continuous improvement or renewal of those manufacturing processes. You are able to make technological choices on processes, systems and applications during the different stages of a project. You understand and communicate the consequences of the technology on the architecture. You integrate existing and/or purchased modules / components in a system.
- Trading-off between conflicting product design and manufacturing process specifications, determining feasibility of potential solutions, and leading technical & design reviews.
- Overall technical leadership and responsibility for realization of full manufacturing process release and ramp-up to ensure quality and compliance.
- Ensuring good manufacturing processes, safety, and reliability, following regulatory compliance. Ensuring that there is proper documentation for the developed hard- & software.
- You develop application know-how in the specific field of expertise. You are a reference on competence and in the technical area which typically bridges Innovation and Industrialization
You're the right fit if you have:
- MSc or PhD degree or equivalent in Engineering.
- Minimum of 10 years of experience as a manufacturing process technologist/developer.
- Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to address fundamental issues based on unique knowledge in the professional field.
- Capable of generating, leading, and executing technological improvement initiatives in collaboration with specialists.
- Proven track record of substantial contributions to the innovation of manufacturing processes, effectively communicating new insights within the business.
- Experienced in working according to the V-model, defining requirements, supervising tests, and reporting results.
- Experience as a team player, capable of leading a multidisciplinary team of engineers and able to steer and supervise high level and detailed design of manufacturing-/test equipment and related processes (create schedules, and assign parts projects to members of staff)
- Expertise in at least one of the domains - medical equipment or manufacturing systems.
- Experience with regulations for developing medical devices and equipment.
- Willingness to travel up to 25% and/or work at the customer location (internationally and in Europe)
Advantages:
GreenBelt or BlackBelt certification (or equivalent) is preferred.
**The position is not open for relocation
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