Technical Service Engineer

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Job description

Come join our team at Advanced Sterilization Products (ASP) and be part of a global leader in infection prevention solutions for the healthcare industry. With advanced products, technologies, and workflows for medical sterilization and disinfection, ASP is dedicated to defending the lives of patients, families, healthcare workers, providers, and communities. Add your talent to our extraordinary team and help us in our mission to make healthcare safer for everyone. ASP is based in Irvine, California with core sites in Everett, Washington and Schaffhausen, Switzerland plus many more offices around the world.

Fortive Corporation Overview:

Fortive is a global family of more than 20 industry-leading industrial growth and technology companies, united by a shared purpose: to make the world stronger, safer, and more effective by providing essential technology for the people who accelerate progress. Here, you get the excitement of a "startup" with the stability and predictability of an organization strongly grounded in its roots and with a proven track record of growth. There's no limit to what you can learn, or the impact you can make: for you, for us, for growth.

Description:

Tasks/Duties/Responsibilities

• The Staff Product Engineer uses good engineering practices to improve capital equipment for service and


• marketability.


• The Staff Product Engineer will apply broad engineering knowledge independently and within a cross-functional


• team to both lead and participate in complex engineering projects and CIP projects. These projects include


• obsolescence, re-engineering, feature enhancement and updates, CAPA and other company initiatives around


• quality, regulations, and service.


• The Staff Product Engineer with all phases of product enhancement, execution of sustaining engineering


• projects, and technical design documentation.


• The Staff Product Engineer will perform root-cause analysis, risk assessment, design and execution of


• investigative studies, statistical analysis of data sets, and formulate business-effective solutions based on the


• change analysis of cross-functional impact, and implementation plans for achieving the desired long-term


• outcome.


• The Staff Product Engineer will provide guidance and work direction to lower level engineers and related project


• team members.


• The Staff Product Engineer will on occasion provide field-based troubleshooting and hands-on product training to field based customers

Qualifications:

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

The Staff Product Engineer will have a strong background in standard engineering principles/processes. Product

focus is electro-mechanical capital equipment and components, thus familiarity with systems engineering and

system reliability/maintainability is required. The Staff Product Engineer will have capabilities within the

company defined practices and policies in selecting methods and techniques for product troubleshooting.

Working knowledge of statistics is required. The Staff Product Engineer will have a track record in the analysis

of malfunctioning components and subsystems. The Staff Product Engineer is comfortable in working with and

leading cross-functional team members and has highly effective verbal and written communication skills. The

incumbent is intrinsically motivated and proactive. The Staff Product Engineer will interact as the intermediary

between ASP Irvine and field-based personnel. As such (s)he will take both field-based and cross-functional

input into consideration throughout the product engineering process and as such strong communication skills,

tenacity, and willingness to listen actively are required. During the course of the product engineering processes,

updates of status and results to team members, management, and field-based personnel are paramount. Work

experience in a regulated industry is required.

Travel on the Job:Yes

Percentage Traveled: 0-10%

Preferred Qualifications

Preferred Education: Master's degree or Equivalent

Preferred Area of Study: Mechanical or Electrical Engineering

Preferred Related Industry Experience: Medical device industry experience is preferred

Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Experience in manufacturing processes of capital product including product reliability and qualification is desired.

Hands-on experience in working with vacuum chamber systems or fluidic systems is desired. Training and

working knowledge of six sigma methodology is desired. Electro-mechanical equipment experience is preferred,

strong root-cause analysis, and communication skills are required. International language skills e.g. Spanish,

Mandarin etc. are desired but not necessary. Basic project management skills or the ability to learn are

desirable.

Physical Requirements:

These physical demands are representative of the physical requirements necessary for an employee to

successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation can be made to enable

people with disabilities to perform the described essential functions of this job.

While performing the responsibilities of this job, the employee is required to talk and hear. The employee is often

required to sit and use their hands and fingers, to handle or feel. The employee is occasionally required to stand,

walk, reach with arms and hands, climb or balance, and to stoop and kneel. Vision abilities required by this job

include close vision.

Work Environment

General office environment. Work is generally sedentary in nature, but may require standing and walking for

up to 10% of the time. The working environment is generally favorable. Lighting and temperature are adequate,

and there are no hazardous or unpleasant conditions caused by noise, dust, etc. Work is generally performed

within an office environment, with standard office equipment available.

Manufacturing work environment. Work involves frequent lifting of materials and products. Machinery

operation requires the use of safety equipment. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Laboratory work environment. Requires the use of safety equipment.

Field-based environment. Visit customer sites. Work requires significant local travel and may require occasional overnight travel and weekend and evening work.

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