The Company
Dexcom Corporation (NASDAQ DXCM; Market Cap $44.3B) is a pioneer and global leader in continuous glucose monitoring (CGM). Dexcom began as a small company with a big dream: To forever change how diabetes is managed. To unlock information and insights that drive better health outcomes. Here we are 25 years later, having pioneered an industry. And we're just getting started. We are broadening our vision beyond diabetes to empower people to take control of health. That means personalized, actionable insights aimed at solving important health challenges. To continue what we've started: Improving human health.
We are driven by nearly 10,000 ambitious, passionate people worldwide who are willing to fight like warriors to earn the trust of our customers by listening, serving with integrity, thinking big, and being dependable. We've already changed millions of lives and we're ready to change millions more. Our future ambition is to become a leading consumer health technology company while continuing to develop solutions for serious health conditions. We'll get there by constantly reinventing uniquebiosensing-technologyexperiences. Though we've come a long way from our small company days, our dreams are bigger than ever. The opportunity to improve health on a global scale stands before us.
Summary:
Responsible for strategic oversight and leadership direction of Sustaining Engineering and establishing a best in class team as a part of Manufacturing Operations with theprimary goalofmeeting manufacturing goalswithin the Quality System. Provide technical leadership in fields such as chemical, electrical, mechanical engineering as well as bestmanufacturing processesandproduct manufacturability improvements. Manages all engineering activities, leads and develops the engineering team.Solvescomplexperformance and operational issuestoimprove manufacturing processes.Oversee design development, production and testingof product and processes. Lead and/or participate in efforts toreduce the operating costs, improve qualityof the products,implement best in classandefficient manufacturing processesusing tools such as Lean and Six Sigma.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Manage and supervise resources inprocess development, product transfer,andprocess improvementtoenhance product quality, decrease cost, and improve manufacturing efficiencies.
The Engineering Manager will work together with the Manufacturing Managers to ensure the manufacturing processes meet production targets against lowest cost, according to planning and quality requirements.
Resolves escalated issues arising from operations and requiring coordination with other departments.
Check technical accuracy of work, ensure Design of Experiments (DOE) are appropriate, and review statistical methods used to estimate future manufacturing requirements, production and field performance data.
Provides input to strategic decisions that affect the functional area of responsibility.
Give input into developing the budget.
Being involved in the cross-functional team discussions and meetings
Build, guide, and enhance the engineering team to meet future needs. Working regularly to engage employees to gain work efficiencies and perform performance reviews.
Champions and leads change initiatives; identifies the best approach for implementing process, implementing root cause analyses and problem solving systems such asDMAIC, A3, Lean Six Sigmaacross the sustaining engineering team, Product Focus Team (PFT) and beyond.
Oversee and review design specifications, drawings, and other project documents such as URS, FNS, SDS, etc.
Develop and execute test plans, and controls related validation protocols. Review the report write up to ensure equipment/processes meet part/assembly specifications and regulatory requirements.
Hiring, training, and mentoring of the engineering team. Write performance reviews.
This position assumes and performs other duties as assigned.
Required Qualifications:
Basic knowledge related toproduct, process, and equipmentused in a high volume manufacturing environment
Ability to work in Team environment across multiple functional groups
Ability to handle multiple concurrent projects and conflicting priorities
Typically requires minimum of 5 years of related industry experience.
Typically requires 5-8 years of leadership experience.
Lean Manufacturing and Lean Six Sigma experience is required.
Excellent team-oriented communication and organizational skills
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