Highlights
Position: Engineering Technician II - Shift 2 Location: Southington, CT 06489 Duration: 6 Months Job Type: Temporary Assignment Work Type: Onsite Shift: 3:00 PM - 11:30 PM (Mon - Fri) Job Description: Responsibilities: Our engineering technicians' team is an integral part of our R&D organization supporting new product development and post-launch product evolution. Responsibilities include performing research, building prototypes, validating test methods, inspecting products, support building test fixtures, conducting tests, analyzing, reporting, and presenting on data, ensuring sites are safe and clean, and reporting to the Lab supervisor/Manager.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Southington, CT |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $26.41–$35.49 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Website | http://www.tekwissen.com/ |
Description
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is passionate about improving and saving the lives of patients through high quality, innovative medical devices and services. A leading global manufacturer of specialty medical devices that provides innovative and lifesaving solutions for the world's healthcare markets. Specializing in Infusion Therapy, Vascular Access, Vital Care, and Specialty Products & Services.
Position: Engineering Technician II - Shift 2
Location: Southington, CT 06489
Duration: 6 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Shift: 3:00 PM - 11:30 PM (Mon - Fri)
Job Description:
Responsibilities:
- Our engineering technicians' team is an integral part of our R&D organization supporting new product development and post-launch product evolution.
- Responsibilities include performing research, building prototypes, validating test methods, inspecting products, support building test fixtures, conducting tests, analyzing, reporting, and presenting on data, ensuring sites are safe and clean, and reporting to the Lab supervisor/Manager.
- Key skills include an ability to troubleshoot equipment/testing, communicate effectively, and provide effective suggestions for improvement as well as demonstrating a sound understanding of engineering terminology and being able to work well in a team.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
- Lab, inventory, and equipment maintenance
- Performs technical work requiring competency in all conventional aspects of the Mechanical engineering department.
- Participates in 6S and lean initiatives in the laboratories
- Conducts work requiring judgment in the evaluations, selection and the adaptation of standard techniques, procedures, and criteria; devises new approaches to problems as encountered
- Performs technical work requiring some independent evaluation, selection and application of standard techniques, procedures, and criteria within mechanical engineering
- Devise new approaches to problems as encountered including proposed fixture design/features and solutions. Manages sample inventory from start to end of projects, real and accelerated aging, and general inventory
- Analyzes data (including basic statistics) and reports/presents on timely basis
- Plans and conducts projects on a limited scope or portions of a larger projects
- Works with internal departments as well as vendors and equipment suppliers to resolve issues and coordinate work in support of client objectives.
- Engage others, promote, and participate in Environmental, Health, and Safety initiatives, focusing on continuous improvement
- Work on special projects as assigned by Lab Supervisor/Manager
Knowledge & Skills:
- Knowledge of basic mechanical and related to medical devices and practice is required
- Basic Solidworks and technical drawing/drafting skill
- Basic knowledge of Minitab Knowledge and skill in engineering record keeping procedures and methods, with the ability to rapidly master client internal procedures and methods
- Knowledge of QSSOPs, GMP/FDA/ISO 9001, etc., principles and ability to integrate into software engineering discipline.
- Basic knowledge of lean and Six Sigma Methods.
Minimum Qualifications, Education & Experience:
- Must be at least 18 years of age
- High School Diploma required along with either 3-5 years' work experience as an engineering technician in a related position within a manufacturing or testing organization, an associate's degree in a related field with 2 plus years' work experience, or a bachelor's degree in a related technical field.
Work Environment:
- This is largely a sedentary role.
- This job operates in a professional lab and office environment and routinely uses standard office equipment
- Work can be performed in a clean room environment While performing the duties of this job, the employee may be required to sit or stand for long periods of time; depending on the machine they are operating
- Operator is required to use computer or touch screen to enter work order data
- Must be able to occasionally move and lift objects of up to 25 pounds.
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
About Company
WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE
TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.
To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.
Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.
Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.