Sustaining Engineer

  • San Rafael
  • Atl Technology Costa Rica

Sustaining Engineering is responsible for the identification, review, assessment, and resolution of deficiencies throughout a system's life cycle. They are responsible for returning a system to its baselined configuration and capability as well as identifying opportunities for performance, capability, and profit improvement.

What you will be doing : Operations

  • Interact with customers, marketing, and sales as required to capture customer needs and look for opportunities to improve product fabrication and quality.
  • Responsible for organizing, planning, monitoring, controlling and scheduling the necessary activities of varying size and complexity sustaining projects to achieve goals.
  • Coordinate resources between competencies (quality, engineering, research & development, manufacturing, global supply) - take the re-design of a product into production.
  • Coordinate with and consult other Engineers to design, or detail components and systems and to resolve design or manufacturing issues.
  • Manage and implement change orders and implementation.
  • Produces and reviews product documentation including proposals, test protocols, and technical reports.
  • Oversee and/or undertake prototype sample creation.
  • Review existing product design, identify weaknesses, propose, implement and monitor effectiveness of improvements.
  • Capture, review, and maintain ROI/cost improvement projects.
  • Support supplier qualification activities.
  • Provide hands on support on production lines and the equipment therein for the prevention and renewal of downed production lines.
  • As project lead, responsible for the coordination of Installation, Operational and Performance Qualification (IQ, OQ & PQ) activities for various equipment and manufacturing processes as part of a product re-design or revalidation.

New Product Introduction

  • Support the introduction of new product lines during the transition state of pre-production to mass production by supporting the new product through trainings and other activities that may be triggered by the new process, design evaluations, drawings, and fabrication to company, industry, and customer standards.
  • Work with Manufacturing and other Product Development engineers to ensure that products are optimally designed for manufacturing.
  • Prepare for and conduct various design reviews as requiered.
  • Verify that designs meet functional requirements.

Customer change request

  • Supports customer Engineering teams on reviewing, designing, prototyping, and testing
  • Work with customers to support electrical and mechanical elements for product.
  • Responsible for reviewing scope and content of the projects quoted.
  • Manage Support Engineering projects implementation that are customer driven.
  • Translate user needs and other customer inputs into clear, concise design requirements and design concepts.

Issues / RCA / Complains

  • Lead and performs RCA (Root Cause Analysis) and resolves design or manufacturing issues
  • Conduct performance qualification test planning, execution, creation of test reports.
  • Responsible to create Root cause analysis.
  • Supports Corrective and Preventative Actions (CAPA), Nonconforming Materials. Reports (NCMR), and Supplier Corrective Action Report (SCAR) activities.

Cost reduction UT, DG and CR requested

  • Capture and maintain cost improvement projects ROI.
  • Support supplier qualification activities.
  • Manage Sustaining Engineering projects of varying size and complexity.
  • May lead cross-functional project teams.

Engineering in General:

  • Develop detailed engineering drawings and specifications for product, equipment, dies, tools, and controls, using computer-assisted drafting CAD software.
  • Maintains and creates documentation including test plans, test reports, PFMEA, VMP, validation documents, technical proposals and more.
  • Lay out and draw schematic, orthographic, or angle views to depict functional relationships of components, assemblies, systems, and machines.
  • Compute mathematical formulas to develop and design detailed specifications for components or machinery.
  • Responsible for product and equipment re validation activities in coordination with process engineers.
  • Lead/support cross-functional project teams.
  • Perform all duties in compliance with the quality management system and actively contribute to the continuous improvement of the QMS.
  • Travel both domestically and internationally as needed.
  • Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Additional

  • Occasionally Process development and Mapping.
  • Provide training to team members to increase individual procedural knowledge and proficiency in executing a task, individual procedural knowledge and proficiency in functioning as part of a team, and overall team performance.

What we expect from you.

  • Bachelor of Science in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering or a combination of a degree and experience deemed sufficient by ATL Technology
  • Minimum 3 to 4 years of e