Job Description

What if the work you did every day could impact the lives of people you know? Or all of humanity?

At Illumina, we are expanding access to genomic technology to realize health equity for billions of people around the world. Our efforts enable life-changing discoveries that are transforming human health through the early detection and diagnosis of diseases and new treatment options for patients.

Working at Illumina means being part of something bigger than yourself. Every person, in every role, has the opportunity to make a difference. Surrounded by extraordinary people, inspiring leaders, and world changing projects, you will do more and become more than you ever thought possible.

Position Summary:

Product Lifecycle Engineer serves an important role in ensuring that the product is manufactured in a high volume, multi-product environment and delivered at the utmost quality to the customer.

The individual will interact extensively with other departments such as manufacturing, equipment, quality assurance, R&D, supply chain and facilities, to sustain and improve processes for existing products.

Position Responsibilities:

Analyzes production and field quality data, to ensure Safety, Availability, Quality, Cost and Compliance targets for process and products are met.

Perform troubleshooting, failure analysis, root cause identification and provide optimized preventive or corrective actions for line issues related to yield, process and quality of product.

Constructs and executes controlled experiments to address production and quality issues and drives implementation of solutions to meet operation goals.

Proactively drives process improvement activities through engineering problem solving methodology (8D, DOE, FMEA, Ishikawa, Six Sigma etc) to ascertain and recommend improvement to processes or test methods.

Lead or support improvement projects and drives change management associated to implementation of identified deliverables.

Ensure process system and equipment are in compliance with company quality system and regulatory requirements.

Listed responsibilities are an essential, but not exhaustive list, of the usual duties associated with the position. Changes to individual responsibilities may occur due to business needs.

Competencies:

Core Technical Leadership

Demonstrates leadership in the development of technical innovations and in ensuring optimum collaboration and knowledge sharing of technical insights.

Project Leadership & Troubleshooting

Actively works to resolve project challenges and facilitate knowledge transfer between team members focused on shared objectives.

Technical Breadth/Depth

Demonstrates motivation to build deeper technical depth in area-of-expertise and inform that knowledge base through understanding of associated areas.

Customer-Centric Focus

Ensures that a positive customer experience informs both the approach to work, the quality demonstrated, and the endpoint for measuring success.

Thought Leadership

Understands how businesses operate and uses this context to drive innovation and ethical decision-making.

Change Management

Develops methods for supporting innovation and change across the organization.

Problem Solving

Approaches problems in a rational manner using sound strategies that ensure comprehensive understanding and effective resolution.

Preferred Experience/Education/Skills:

Bachelor\'s Degree in Engineering/Science in Chemical, Biochemistry, Biomedical or Material.

Work experience in biotech or medical device industries is strongly preferred but not a requirement.

Position Requirements:

Possess understanding of manufacturing process, methodologies and environment.

Experience in FDA-regulated environment is a plus.

Exhibit Analytical, Problem Solving and Project Management skills.

Good understanding of Quality Assurance and Process Control Knowledge.

Excellent team player, interpersonal and communication skill.

Able to work well under stress, both internally and across functions and perform multitasking.

Proactive, innovative, and self-motivating.

Illumina believes that everyone has the ability to make an impact, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to providing employment opportunity regardless of sex, race, creed, color, gender, religion, marital status, domestic partner status, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, pregnancy, military or veteran status, citizenship status, and genetic information.

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