Engineer, Manufacturing

Vantive is a vital organ therapy company on a mission to extend lives and expand possibilities for patients and care teams everywhere. For 70 years, our team has driven meaningful innovations in kidney care. As we build on our legacy, we are deepening our commitment to elevating the dialysis experience through digital solutions and advanced services, while looking beyond kidney care and investing in transforming vital organ therapies. Greater flexibility and efficiency in therapy administration for care teams, and longer, fuller lives for patients— that is what Vantive aspires to deliver.

We believe Vantive will not only build our leadership in the kidney care space, it will also offer meaningful work to those who join us. At Vantive, you will become part of a community of people who are focused, courageous and don’t settle for the mediocre. Each of us is driven to help improve patients’ lives worldwide. Join us in advancing our mission to extend lives and expand possibilities.

Essential Duties

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Responsibilities:

Ensure daily equipment and processes are running per plan and maximise equipment uptime

Improve manufacturing processes capability with higher predictability and lower production cost.

Identify productivity improvement opportunities, recommend changes to machine parts designs, liaise with process engineering on the feasilbility studies and implementation.

Effective use of Lean tools to improve overall machine performance (eg, OEE, cause map).

Meet all product requirements and ensure safe working environment.

Ensure machine make parts are of acceptable quality, safe to operate and friendly to the environment. Conduct validation studies and process investigations.

Routine manufacturing and maintenance engineering.

Develop and improve equipment maintenance manual/SOP

Develop and execute equipment maintenance plan

Study parts life and establish PM schedule for TPM activities.

Spare parts purchase, inventory management and contract maintenance

Equipment calibration and licence renewal

Analyze machine and/ or process issue related to customer complaint and implement effective corrective and preventive action.

Raise Capex whenever required.  Work on business case and negotiate with suppliers where necessary.

May include leading a group of technicians to support manufacturing activities. Training of technicians.

Responsible for compliance to EHS procedure and requirement.

Lead and implement Energy/Water conservation projects.

For steam operation only:

Ensure daily cycles are reviewed to meet release requirement and approved for release

Lead a team of steam technicians for daily operation and maintenance of steam sterilization vessels

For Gamma operation only:

To be appointed as site Radiation Safety Officer (RSO) upon successful completion of the required training including enforcing radiation safety in the plant.

Supervise a group of Radiation Workers (Technician / GSP) to perform the Gamma Sterilization of products and sub-assemblies.

Liaise with customers (BD) on gamma irradiation services requirement.

• Degree in Mechanical/Mechantronic Engineering or equivalent

Skill Set and/or Experience:

• Fresh Degree holders are welcomed to apply
• Degree with Min 3 years
• 2-3 years experience in engineering projects management and coordination
• Good engineering background in industrial automation, electrical and controls engineering
• Experience in new manufacturing machinery commissioning, debugging and validation
• Familiar with basic GMP and other relevant requirements for medical/ pharmaceutical products manufacturing

Data Analysis & Analytics (Not Applicable (0)), First Principles Thinking (Learning / Doing (1)), Lean & six sigma process knowledge (Not Applicable (0)), Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence (Not Applicable (0)), Manufacturing & Process Knowledge (Learning / Doing (1)), Modeling & Simulation (Not Applicable (0)), Process Automation (Learning / Doing (1)), Product / Project Management (Learning / Doing (1)), Smart Operations / Industry 4.0 (Learning / Doing (1)), Software Integration (API, Data Pipelines) (Not Applicable (0))

Reasonable Accommodation

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