Sustaining Engineer Job Description
Sustaining engineer
provides statistical problem solving expertise in collaboration with Quality Assurance to analyze and resolve field performance issues and internal process capability issues.
Sustaining Engineer Duties & Responsibilities
To write an effective sustaining engineer job description, begin by listing detailed duties, responsibilities and expectations. We have included sustaining engineer job description templates that you can modify and use.
Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Analyze designs and drive changes or modifications
Responsible for yield improvement of the production line
Provide high quality L3 support to customers and internal stakeholders
Independently research solutions, troubleshoot and resolve complex problems by analyzing product data
Proficiency in the design, implementation, and maintenance of a development environment, including necessary equipment, configuration, and software
Follows standard engineering/test practices
Cross-functional project teams including R&D, Quality Assurance, Supplier Quality, Planning, Purchasing, Regulatory, and Manufacturing to maintain and improve surgical products for the neuroscience and neurovascular medical device industry
As a recognized manufacturing process technical expert who can provide engineering knowledge and oversight to resolve manufacturing- and quality-related problems with existing products
Support and lead manufacturing process improvements for Codman Neuro’s products in both internal manufacturing facilities and in partnership with external suppliers
Provides project leadership to improve existing products and associated manufacturing processes
Sustaining Engineer Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Sustaining Engineer
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: DFSS, FCC, PMP, ASQ, PMI, LEAN, APICS, MBA, LDAP, NEBS
Education for Sustaining Engineer
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the sustaining engineer job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Technical, Computer Science, Science, Education, Computer Engineering, Manufacturing, Design
Skills for Sustaining Engineer
Desired skills for sustaining engineer include:
Assessing risk and problem solving
Capability
Confidence intervals
Statistical practices as it relates to sample sizes
Process auditing techniques to ensure compliance to defined quality requirements
Which you can utilize in your daily tasks
IPC Electronics standards
Industry and customer specific quality registration schemes and certification processes
Applied statistics
High reliability
Desired experience for sustaining engineer includes:
Understand source control git or subversion
A strong willingness and desire to learn (self-learner) and to stretch competencies
Experience in electronic/mechanical assembly desired
Intelligent Risk taking, Integrated thinking, strong leadership, strong problem solving, and technical communication skills a MUST
Effectively communicate verbally and in writing with diverse audiences including but not limited to
Proficiency assembling per mechanical drawings
Sustaining Engineer Examples
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Sustaining Engineer Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking for a sustaining engineer. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for sustaining engineer
- Support the selection and validation of replacement materials, such as polymers, metals, and adhesives, for Codman Neuro applications
- Write and revise assembly procedures and work instructions for manufacturing, and provide the oversight to implement such procedures
- Identify and provide innovative new manufacturing technologies from industry best practices that can be applied to Codman Neuro products
- Act as sustaining engineers for our external manufacturing partners and work independently to maintain the technical qualification of suppliers and supplier products and processes (either obsolescence driven or as part of a tech transfer/life cycle management) and work with suppliers to resolve complex technical issues that may require the development of new or improved techniques or procedures
- Serve as the technical lead to manage large scale, complex multiple projects
- Influence development of business strategies
- Identify, characterize, and document all key process variables included in Design Transfer
- Partner with the new product development community to provide technology assessment and supplier technical support, supporting new product development and other "product lifecycle" activities, designing and overseeing experiments, applying statistical analyses to evaluate results and preparing technical reports
- Support Operations management and Engineering in leading tactical activities sustaining corporate initiatives and/or departmental objectives
- Act as a liaison between R&D, Technical Support and Operations to ensure design changes for raw materials are developed appropriately for a manufacturing environment
Qualifications for sustaining engineer
- Experience with or exposure to automation equipment, motion control, PLC programming and HMI is a plus (FANUC 6-axis Robots, PLC programming AB RS Logix5000, HMI Factory Talk)
- General knowledge of traditional database technologies such as Postgres, Oracle
- Familiarity of networking, storage, and virtualization
- Participate and/or lead in design reviews, FMEA analysis, power and performance assessments
- 4+ years experience as a Hardware Engineer or Hardware Sustaining Engineer in the server HDD SSD and/or NVMe area
- Experienced in analyzing HDD and SSD/NVMe quality/reliability
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Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of sustaining engineer. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for sustaining engineer
- Support production related issues for manufacturing
- Review and recommend updates to product and user specifications relating to improvements of new and existing designs
- Lead and influence offsite and 3rd party design engineering resources
- Critically evaluate design implementations and challenge and confirm design decisions for optimal design for manufacturability, cost, quality and reliability
- Write protocols and reports for various technical aspects including, but not limited to design verifications and validations
- Writing and presenting technical reports Conduct product development tasks & documentation required to satisfy design controls and risk management in accordance with established SOPs
- Effectively and thoughtfully incorporate required regulatory medical device standards (FDA, ISO, IEC, EN) Drive the development of solutions to technical issues and implement within the established design and design change control processes
- Provide scientific and technical expertise in support of New Product Development, Product Improvements and resolving supplier technical issues
- Participate in and make necessary recommendations in technical and design reviews for manufacturability, supplier selection and overall design reliability
- Collect and maintain applicable technical, clinical, and commercial literature relating to the background and development of specific products or procedures
Qualifications for sustaining engineer
- Use of Hardware lab equipment such as digital scope, logic analyzer, power monitors
- Experienced using Visio, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
- Experience in electronics and/or electromechanical assembly of electronic devices, small and/or large scale production of electronic devices
- This position does not include relocation benefits
- Ability to model/design and qualify
- Must be able to apply a detailed understanding of inspection methods and have strong knowledge in mechanical parts, assemblies
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Our growing company is hiring for a sustaining engineer. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for sustaining engineer
- Manage, direct and support vendors involved in product development and on-going production
- Investigate critical product/process engineering problems on demand
- Follow GMP, FDA, ISO, and Gyrus operational procedures
- Experience working on a software application through commercial release
- Experience designing and developing software user interfaces for web, phone, tablet, or other similar device
- Experience working in a small start up or entrepreneurial environment preferred
- Experience working in a highly regulated industry such as aerospace, defense, or medical
- Manages all activities within department
- Perform validation activities installation qualification (IQ), operational qualification (OQ), and performance qualification (PQ) of new production processes and workflows
- Analyze equipment and process issues which impede production, provide resolutions ensuring optimal operation of production lines and make recommendations for process improvements
Qualifications for sustaining engineer
- Minimum of 7 years of product development experience is required
- Strong ability to plan and prioritize complex activities is necessary
- Strong analytical skills to identify solutions to technical issues, risks and prepare balanced decisions are essential
- Design For Manufacturing skills are preferred
- Ability to troubleshoot and make quick, knowledge and experience guided decisions is desired
- Good technical writing skills are necessary
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Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of sustaining engineer. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for sustaining engineer
- Supply technical support for quality or manufacturing issues
- Support and contribute to continuous improvement activities ("Kaizen")
- Forecast operating costs of department and direct preparation of budget requests
- Manages personnel activity within department such as recruitment, hiring, performance management, salary review, corrective action and terminations
- Support management on various projects
- Travel to off-site facilities and with department members or external employees to participate in NBC programs for support or training activities
- Isolate problems to source device
- Document and follow through with development for all submitted defects
- Work with OEM vendors when applicable for problem resolution
- Exemplifies “can do” attitude, identifies gaps and provides solutions
Qualifications for sustaining engineer
- Knowledge of the methods and tools of project management and ability to manage timelines is essential
- Excellent people skills, ability to communicate and partner well, to lead and to motivate, and to resolve conflict are preferred
- Proficiency in the design of parts utilizing injection and insert molding, extrusion, stamping, wire EDM and CNC machining is a plus
- Experience in the design of durable, complex products with continued exposure to the autoclave and / or Sterrad environment is a plus
- Must be proficient in the design of test fixtures for the qualification, performance and verification / validation tests of new and existing products
- Working knowledge of basic Microsoft Applications including Word, Excel and Project is essential
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Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of sustaining engineer. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for sustaining engineer
- Communicate effectively both within immediate team, service, and across leadership teams
- Some after-hours shift and/or pager duties are required
- Create test cases for customer found defects and automate it
- Develop automated test cases on a day-to-day basis for customer found defects
- Test and qualify hardware components like NIC card, Memory, SFP Validating new features, POC or integrated features to maintenances release
- Escalation of issues that require action outside of the immediate sphere of activity
- Strong customer facing experience is a must with focus on interpersonal skills, problem analysis and solving
- Provides troubleshooting on WebEx or similar online meeting, conferencing application
- Proficiency in the design, implementation, QA and maintenance of a development environment, including necessary equipment, configuration, and software
- Work with Engineering to assist in resolving depot test issues
Qualifications for sustaining engineer
- Experience with software used in the design and documentation process (eg
- Prior experience in the design and testing of copper based twisted pairs and quads for analog and digital transmission systems
- 3+ years relevant work experience in CNC 3-5 axis milling machines
- 5 + years relevant work experience at management level
- Working knowledge of ceramic materials
- 3 + years experience working in an FDA regulated or ISO environment