Illumina, Inc.
Engineer 2 (Finance)
We are looking for driven, talented Process Engineers to join New Product Introduction team in Process Development and Transfer (PDT) group. The PDT group works as an integral part of our Consumables Development and Manufacturing process and is tasked with developing and deploying consumables manufacturing processes of New Products within our high volume production environments. The individual will provide technical leadership to new product introduction, and production process development. Additionally, s/he will partner cross-functionally with R & D, Quality, Production, Supply Chain, and other engineering groups to develop and sustain processes for new products.
Responsibilities: Requirements: Education and Experience:
• Participate in consumables development, process development, definition and improvement, and other activities in the making of consumable products or support of processes/equipment used to sequence genomes.
• Troubleshoot new product process issues related to yield, quality and throughput.
• Construct and execute controlled experiments (including DOE's) to optimize processes, address yield and quality issues and drive implementation of solutions into a production environment to meet project goals.
• Analyze process test results, issue reports and make technical recommendations.
• Work cross functionally with R&D, Manufacturing and Quality to design and develop a robust high volume processes for new products based on CPM (Critical Parameter Management).
• Represent Operations needs on development teams.
• Work cross functionally with Supply Chain, and Manufacturing to enable operations of volume manufacturing.
• Design and develop or source production equipment, and work cross functionally with EHS and Facilities to establish safe production processes.
• Define technical requirements and write procedures to process product.
• Work on teams to develop and transfer new processes/products to production and enhance their robustness.
• Work experience in the biotech, pharmaceutical or semiconductor industries is desirable.
• High level problem solving and reasoning skills required.
• Experience with chemical processes (preferably organic) preferred.
• Experience with statistics, Statistical Process Control and DOE techniques is a plus.
• Experience with high volume production in a high tech, high volume consumables industry is a plus.
• High level computer skills are required. Intermediate level programming knowledge is a plus.
• Experience with product development processes and project management is a plus.
• Good interdepartmental communication skills and documentation skills are required.
• Demonstrated ability to accomplish goals while working across departments is required.
• B.S./M.S. in Chemical Engineering, Biochemical Engineering, Bioengineering, Biomedical Engineering, Biotechnical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or Material Science with 5+ years of relevant experience in production support/sustaining and/or process definition and development, design, scale-up, improvement and validation.
• PhD in Chemical Engineering, Biochemical Engineering, Bioengineering, Biomedical Engineering, Biotechnical Engineering, Bioinformatics, Manufacturing Engineering, Materials Science or Physical Chemistry with 2-4 years of relevant experience in production support/sustaining and/or process definition and development, design, scale-up, improvement and validation.
Listed responsibilities are an essential, but not exhaustive list, of the usual duties associated with the position. Changes to individual responsibilities may occur due to business needs.
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