Senior Manufacturing Project Engineer - NPR
2 days/week at home
A little flex time
Job Description
Life at Elvie - Meaningful work. Exceptional people
We develop extraordinary and smart technologies designed to improve the lives of women. It's a fascinating and challenging area that requires us to solve the problems that no one else has ever tackled before.
Our first product, Elvie Trainer, is an award-winning app-connected trainer that helps women strengthen their pelvic floor muscle via fun, five-minute workouts. It took the wellness industry by storm and is now available via the NHS Supply Chain. Our street cred is backed up by more than 12 awards for innovation and design, including the prestigious Red Dot Award and an IDA Design Award.
Our second innovation: Elvie Pump, the world’s first silent hands-free, wearable breast pump, has received international praise, including being listed as one of the Times 100 best inventions in 2019 and ‘wearable design of the year’ at the Dezeen Awards.
Our 3rd & 4th innovation: Elvie Catch and Elvie Curve launched on 7th October 2020. Elvie Curve uses natural suction to gently express milk during let-down while feeding or pumping from the other breast. It is small, compact, and securely worn in-bra. Elvie Catch, "Stops your leaks, not your day" is a set of two breast milk collection cups with slip-proof silicone skirts designed for total comfort and confidence. Discreet and fuss-free.
Elvie has received more than 30 awards, including being named one of 15 startups “To Watch” by The Sunday Times and ranked as the 6th fastest growing business in the UK by SyndicateRoom in 2019. Tania Boler has recently been rated as the 8th most influential person shaping british technology in 2019 by Business Insider and both products have been featured in the Oscar Nominee Gift Bags. In April 2019, Elvie announced a $42 million Series B, the largest ever fundraise in Femtech.
How do we like to work?
You will be surrounded by people who want to improve everything and everyone around them. People who are passionate about our mission. People who are driven to solve tough problems and constantly consider the best ways to improve the health and wellbeing of women.
We're deeply proud of our values, which are intrinsic to the way we behave every day. We take them seriously because we want our culture to thrive:
We’re fearless - We tackle taboos and break boundaries, requiring sensitivity and courage.
We’re innovators - We are passionate, curious and data-driven. We are constantly learning how to work smarter, faster and better. Always embracing change and innovation.
We’re in it together - Together, we are constantly learning, embracing change and seeking innovation, whilst having fun along the way. We stay authentic and embrace our differences.
About the role
We are looking for a passionate and inquisitive engineer with broad experience across multiple manufacturing environments and the ability to influence people and projects as you will be a key stakeholder in the product development cycle, responsible for the industrialisation of new products into our manufacturing partners facilities globally. You will also take the lead in identifying areas for improvement within the current manufacturing environment to drive improvements in cost, quality and on-time delivery.
The day to day of the role:
Reporting to the Head of Manufacturing, you will work within a team of multi-skilled engineers, leading new product introduction and management of current manufacturing activities. The role will involve (but not be limited to):
- Product Industrialisation / Transfer to Manufacturing
- Lead the introduction of new products into global contract manufacturing plants
- Participate in design reviews and positively influence Design for Manufacture and Assembly at an early stage.
- Ability to lead tooling and/or EE DFM (design for manufacture) and tooling GA (general assembly) activities
- Define and agree tooling specification with CM’s (contract manufacturers) & mold makers to ensure capacity and life requirements are met
- Spec and introduce assembly jigs & fixtures and in-line test equipment in partnership with the Chiaro NPD team and CM
- Lead part and process qualification activities to ensure products are fit for large scale manufacture - including but not limited to the running of studies, creation of documentation, and review and approval of documentation, reports and CM led studies.
- Continually assess the product introduction process and identify opportunities to improve consistency and quality whilst optimising the available resource and reducing cost
- RFQ (Request for Quote) Process
- Control design pack release to CM’s (compile, review and release)
- Lead technical cost and specification review and support negotiation
- Manufacturing techniques & best practice
- Stay abreast of industry developments and technologies
- Define and implement best practice manufacturing techniques - actively seek to introduce best practice principles into new and existing manufacturing sequences
Post Launch Support
- Act as technical point of contact for the CM for all manufacturing queries, tasks and activities (part, process, equipment and tooling)
- Continually seek efficiency and quality improvements within current manufacturing process
- Identify and drive cost-down opportunities through material, design and process improvement
- Leading capacity scale-up activities as demand increases
- Manage tool maintenance and repair activities, ensuring continuity of supply during downtime
- Monitor and manage production volumes and capacity constraints
- Supporting the CI and Quality team with change management and production cut-in activities
Data Analysis
- Define production data requirements & lead implementation of data collection
- Monitor and lead internal reviews of production data
- Identifying areas for improvement
Team
- Provide training and guidance to team members on specialist tool & technique application and interpretation
- Support general leadership within the team
Requirements
What we need from you:
- Natural ability to bring together the right people at the right time
- Good grounding in production, mechanical and/or electronics engineering
- Broad manufacturing experience across a range of materials and processes
- In-depth knowledge of standard part and process qualification techniques with the ability to interrogate findings to resolve issues
- Strong working knowledge of Quality and Manufacturing tools, techniques and theories
- Quality - Gage R&R studies, FAI reports, Capability studies, PFMEA, control plans, P-Flow, auditing techniques
- Manufacturing - Poka Yoke, Kanban, constraint/bottleneck management, time & motion studies, VSM, 7 wastes, TPM, SMED, 6S, visual management, Andon
- Demonstrable evidence of ability to apply Lean techniques and methodologies
- Experience with an electro-mechanical assembly environment
- Basic knowledge of medical device product introduction and manufacturing requirements (IQ, OQ, PQ / GMP etc)
- Experience of working alongside and managing global manufacturing partners across varying time zones and cultures
- Ability to audit manufacturing plant capability and production lines.
- Flexibility to travel internationally to support product introduction and manage manufacturing improvements projects
- Ability to set expectations and stay calm and positive under pressure
- Clear and concise communication
- Ideally, time with a startup that has gone through the scaling process. Love the idea of working in a fast-paced environment where you can share the future of Elvie and have an impact
Note: you must have the right to work in the UK to apply for this role
Benefits
Elvie is at the crest of a wave! Founded by women's health expert Tania Boler and tech entrepreneur Alex Asseily, Elvie is a collection of bright and motivated team members working across the business to shape the emerging femtech industry.
We are passionate about creating disruptive products that address the challenges that matter most to women and dismantling the taboos around women’s bodies. Here, you can be part of a business and brand that has a positive and meaningful impact on the world, while learning a great deal and having fun.
What are some of the perks of working at Elvie?
We are looking after you. As well as the chance to develop products with real work impact and working with dedicated and passionate colleagues, our benefits have flexibility and wellbeing in mind with
- Great work environment - regular company socials, free daily snacks
- Flexible work environment built on trust and autonomy
- Enjoy employee / friends & family discounts on Elvie products
- Annual personal development allowance & unlimited access to our learning & development platform
- A tax-efficient group pension scheme with SmartPension
- A tax-efficient charity donation scheme
- Life Insurance with Yulife
- Medical, Dental & Optical cash-plan with WPA
- Employee Assistance Program for you and your family
- Generous employee referral program
- Cycle Scheme & Tech Scheme
- YuLife Well-being app & access to SmartHealth app with unlimited GP appointments for you and your family, plus various well-being initiatives throughout the year
At Elvie, we believe in having diverse teams in which everyone can be their authentic self is key to our success. We encourage people from underrepresented backgrounds to apply and we don't discriminate based on race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, marital status, disability or age. We are a family-friendly employer with a culture based on trust, autonomy and flexibility, and are working on making our offices wheelchair friendly and breastfeeding friendly. We do our best to accommodate part-time requests and flexible requests as much as possible. We are also a member of UK Tech Talent Charter and proudly working in partnership with myGwork and Women's tech hub.
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