Design Quality Engineer II

Description

DePuy Synthes is recruiting two Design Quality Engineer II team members for its Warsaw, Indiana location.

The role applies basic quality engineering and scientific method techniques to daily work, along with relevant regulations, standards and industry practices. You will take part in projects with technical responsibility or strategic input, and receive periodic detailed instructions from technical quality leaders and other stakeholders.

The company is in the process of separating its orthopaedics business from Johnson & Johnson to form a standalone company operating as DePuy Synthes. The separation is expected to take 18 to 24 months and is subject to legal requirements, including consultation with works councils and other employee representative bodies where required, regulatory approvals and other customary conditions. If you accept, you would expect to become a DePuy Synthes employee after the transaction closes, governed by its employment processes, programs, policies and benefit plans. Any planned changes would be communicated to you at an appropriate time and subject to any necessary consultation.

Johnson & Johnson is a healthcare company covering innovative medicine and medtech. Its credo commits it to treating employees as individuals and respecting their diversity, dignity and merit.

Responsibilities

• Apply quality engineering tools such as Six Sigma and Lean to introduce new products or processes and improve existing ones.
• Use risk management methods such as mistake proofing, critical control points and failure mode and effects analysis.
• Help assess the reliability of product designs.
• Support root cause investigations using problem solving techniques, and evaluate whether corrective actions work.
• Help develop and run test methods for equipment, process and product qualification and validation.
• Make sure process quality control plans match product risk levels and are followed consistently.
• Build and maintain production and process controls using methods such as process capability measures, statistical process control and process performance metrics.
• Join technical reviews as needed.
• Raise business issues or opportunities with the next level of management.
• Follow company health, safety and environmental guidelines, and ensure your reports do the same and have the resources to do so, where applicable.
• Ensure you and the company comply with federal, state, local and company regulations, policies and procedures.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• A bachelor's degree or equivalent in engineering or a related technical or scientific field, plus 2 or more years of related experience.
• Basic knowledge of quality engineering and scientific methods.
• Basic technical understanding of manufacturing equipment and processes.
• Experience managing tasks or small projects and leading them.
• Basic ability to apply measuring techniques such as mechanical, optical, gauge and automation methods.
• Knowledge of production and processing systems, qualification and validation, product design support, quality statistics and data analysis, product control and disposition, product development support, technical transfer and scale-up, and predictive analytics and reliability.
• Ability to work in a stressful, fast-moving environment.
• Ability to work with colleagues as a team toward company goals.
• Management skills.
• Analytical and problem solving skills.
• Ability to communicate clearly verbally and in writing.
• Standing for about 15% of the time, sitting for about 70% and walking for about 15%.
• Bloodborne pathogen safety testing.
• Preferred skills: agility jumps, business behavior, compliance management, continuous improvement, database backup, data gathering and analysis, data savvy, disruptive innovations, execution focus, issue escalation, process orientation, product improvements, quality control (QC), quality control testing, quality management systems (QMS), quality standards, regulatory environment, report writing.

Conditions

Based in Warsaw, Indiana, United States of America.

Equal opportunity applies to all candidates.