Sr, Manufacturing Engineer

Expected Travel
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Up to 10%

Requisition : 551

Teleflex is a global provider of clinically effective medical technologies designed to improve the health and quality of people’s lives. We apply purpose driven innovation — a relentless pursuit of identifying unmet clinical needs — to benefit patients and healthcare providers. Our portfolio is diverse, with solutions in the fields of vascular and interventional access, interventional cardiology, surgical, anesthesia, cardiac care, interventional urology, urology, emergency medicine and respiratory care.

Teleflex employees worldwide are united in the understanding that what we do every day makes a difference. For more information, please visit

Global Operations is a complex and diverse organization within the company which is responsible for product fulfilment to all our customers from end to end. We pride ourselves on being totally Customer Centric in our unrelenting focus on Improving Quality, Service and Value as perceived by our customers. Our employees are dedicated to the Global Operations Enterprise Excellence journey. Join a dynamic, growing team that offers healthcare providers an array of medical technology solutions that make a difference in patients’ lives.

The Sr. Manufacturing Engineer will be responsible for activities supporting various areas of manufacturing by achieving specified metrics such as yield, efficiency, etc. As a Sr. Manufacturing Engineer, this individual will be responsible for identifying and completing projects that improve quality, increase capacity, and reduce cost of goods sold. As part of identifying and completing projects, this individual will be expected to effectively partner with other functions such as Quality Engineering, R&D, Process Development, Operations, Marketing, etc.

In addition, this individual may be part of development teams to assist with the design and development of new production lines and projects moving through the Product Development Process. Experience with IQ/OQ/PQ and P/DFMECA is required, experience with Lean Principles is preferred.

• Participate in timely disposition of non-conformances, root cause investigations, and CAPA actions related to materials, methods, operators, equipment, and manufacturing environment
• Serve as technical expert for specified existing process/product technologies as well as new technologies as they transfer from Process Development into manufacturing
• Assist with production management in planning of and implementing the necessary technical changes required to sustain adequate production line capacity
• Ensure specific product line equipment is sustained in a functionally acceptable state and available to production when needed
• Create as required and sustain manufacturing procedures, RTs, and product structure BOMs that are accurate, complete, identify safety critical processes, and represent current approved best practices
• Ensure production specific metrics, such as yield, efficiency, etc. are met and sustained
• Perform detailed time studies and spending significant time observing the line, equipment, and product flow.
• Execute and complete improvement projects following applicable VSI business processes that either improve quality, increase capacity, reduce scrap, or reduce cost
• Mentor and provide work direction for manufacturing technicians
• Mentor and provide work direction for Manufacturing Engineers
• Lead small/short term projects
• Lead large scale high risk process improvement efforts
• Complete line performance and improvement project work independently with little oversight needed
• Supervise Technicians including reinforcing the open door policy and ensuring duties, responsibilities, authority and expectations for direct reports are defined and understood.
• Ensure company policies and procedures are followed taking timely corrective action with the help of HR when necessary
• Proactively correcting and/or creating policies and procedures, including business and quality processes.
• Interview, select, train and evaluate performance of new hires

• BA/BS in…