Senior Process Engineer

Philips Ultrasound Shanghai, a member of Philips Healthcare Ultrasound, is a leader in design, development, and manufacture of medical ultrasound transducers for a variety of applications for more than 15 years. The company offers a rich family of high quality and high performing transducers to medical ultrasound customers.

This position is in the company’s R&D Dept, reporting to its functional manager, as a senior process engineer. This position will contribute to the design and development of advanced fabrication processes of the company’s core products working closely with other team members.

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-the-art techniques and step-by-step processes needed for realization of transducer designs to ensure the transducers can be produced with high quality manufacturability 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 specification, 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 customer requirements. Specifically, the job responsibilities include :
• Work as a key technical contributor in design and development of Philips Ultrasound Shanghai transducers, translating commercial, functional, and technical design specifications into technical concepts that can be practically realized.
• Develop new or state-of-the-art techniques / technologies to build Philips Ultrasound Shanghai transducers in the manufacturing line.
• Work with senior engineering staff for sound judgment and decision-making.
• Proactively seek out, learn, apply, and share 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 review 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 include the following :
• Develop step-by-step processes / procedures using new and state-of-the-art technologies whenever needed for realizing Philips Ultrasound Shanghai designed transducers that can be practically and quantitatively built in the manufacturing line with high volume, high yield, and high quality.
• Play 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 to prepare staff for mass production of NPI projects.
• Support sustaining and post-release teams in analyzing root causes of field issues and provide input to possible solutions.
• Support releasing needed documentation 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 processes that comply with Philips Ultrasound Shanghai QMS from Process Engineering perspective.
• Ability to work effectively on transducer process development in complex projects with R&D and other cross-functions, operate independently, acquire good technical skills for issue resolution and troubleshooting, and deliver solid results on time as specified.
• Demonstrated history of solid occupational ethics.
• Requires an equivalent of a Master’s degree or higher in Materials Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or in an 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, with thorough understanding of modern engineering tools, methods, processes, and practices; solid experience with test equipment, strong manufacturing process knowledge, and experience in realizing transducer designs.
• Familiarity with state-of-the-art development techniques, good knowledge of realizing a design of transducers and / or similar products with logical and easy-to-follow practical steps, and 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 issue resolution and troubleshooting.
• Act 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 utilize 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 the area of work and how it relates to the final product (e.g., acoustics / materials engineering, transducers development).

How we work together

We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week. Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities. Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.

About Philips

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