MANUFACTURING ENGINEER

The Company

As world leader in the design and production of industry solutions, the three divisions of LISI group (LISI AEROSPACE, LISI AUTOMOTIVE and LISI MEDICAL) employ more than 10,000 people in 13 countries. With its headquarters in France, LISI MEDICAL is an innovative subcontractor specializing in the manufacture of implants and instruments for minimally invasive, orthopedic, spinal and traumatological surgery.

More than a part.

LISI MEDICAL, is recognized for delivering quality products and innovative services to our customers. Committed to its reputation, LISI MEDICAL ensures agile management of development projects, remarkable industrial capacities, and expertise.

Through mastery of manufacturing technologies (machining, forging, surface treatments, heat treatment, automation), products designed by our customers are built through optimized production processes to ensure precision.  
 

The Minnesota (USA) entity, with two production sites located in Coon Rapids and Big Lake, MN, offers expertise and innovation in the manufacture of instruments for robotic surgery and osteosynthesis implants.  We offer a clean production environment, an excellent benefit and compensation package along with a strong company culture where we are committed to our clients to improve the quality of life of patients.

Competitive Benefits Include: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, paid time off and 401K. Tuition reimbursement to support your development; floating holidays that you take for days that are important to you.  

Come Join Our Team!

Position Summary

This position is responsible for developing and maintaining cost effective processes and procedures for parts manufactured at LISI Medical. In addition, this role is responsible for providing technical support to cross functional departments, coordinating the activities of assigned projects, maintaining manufacturing plans in the ERP system, identifying continuous improvement opportunities, and maintaining appropriate documentation.  
Key Responsibilities: 

•    Develop and maintain cost effective processes and procedures
•    Advocate and implement the highest quality standards and LEAN principles
•    Assess and communicate technical specifications to all departments 
•    Provided design for manufacturability feedback to appropriate audiences
•    Identify and complete continuous improvement projects
•    Create and coordinate engineering  studies
•    Assist in the development of tool design and CNC programming 
•    Fixture design and implementation
•    Create and modify through change control, BOM/BOO routings within the ERP system
•    Assist with all costing and quoting functions 
•    Resolve daily manufacturing issues per LEAP structure
•    Maintain appropriate documentation for engineering changes and manufacturing processes
•    Coordinate measurement methods with quality programmers and engineers
•    Maintain machining and secondary operational processes
•    All other duties as assigned

Required Qualifications:

•    Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, or an associate degree with 4 years of experience in similar field
•    Experience with CAD software
•    Proficient PC skills in a Windows environment, especially word and excel
•    Effective written and verbal communication skills
•    Strong interpersonal and teamwork skills
•    Ability to travel between LISI sites as needed

Preferred Qualifications:    

•    Experience in the design and selection of fixturing and tooling for complex parts
•    Experience in a precision machine shop environment
•    LEAN / Six Sigma training and demonstrated application
•    Experience with CAM software; swiss or milling
•    Experience working within an ISO 13485 environment

Health, Safety & Environment responsibilities and skills: 

•    Participate in the development and promotion of the HSE culture
•    Be exemplary in terms of health, safety and the environment, in particular by :
o    Respecting and ensuring respect for the instructions and rules established in the field of health, safety and the environment (in particular the LISI golden rules)
o    Immediately correcting, whenever possible, or reporting to his or her superiors and/or the HSE department, any malfunction or risky situation in the fields of health, safety and environmental protection
o    Implementing preventive actions to reduce the environmental footprint and control health and safety risks
•    Participate, upon request, in analyses (of risks, incidents) and HSE working groups related to his/her professional scope
•    Be familiar with the main health and safety risks and the main environmental impacts relating to the scope of his/her work
•    Be familiar with the site's HSE policy and objectives
•    To be able to make proposals for improving working conditions and limiting environmental impact

Physical Demands/Working Conditions:
•    Typically sits, grasps items, and performs keyboarding for frequent operation of a computer
•    Stand, walk, bend, reach, or otherwise move about occasionally
•    Lift, move or otherwise transfer items up to 30 pounds occasionally
•    Exposed to typical machine shop physical hazards occasionally
•    Travel by air or car occasionally

Starting Pay Range for this position is $75,000-$95,000 annually.

Minimum pay rates offered will comply with applicable county or city regulations if they exceed the listed range. Actual pay rates are determined based on various factors, including but not limited to, local labor market conditions, years of relevant experience, education, professional certifications, foreign language proficiency, and other job-specific qualifications.

Employees and their families are eligible to participate in a comprehensive benefits package, including company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, flexible spending accounts (FSA), health savings accounts (HSA), voluntary benefits, supplemental life/AD&D insurance, and the company’s 401(k) plan. Additional benefits include access to an employee assistance program (EAP) for employees and household members, long-term disability coverage, and short-term disability for full-time employees.

Full-time and Part-time employees receive Paid Time Off (PTO) based on years of service, as well as paid holidays, personal holidays and MN Safe and Sick Time.

LISI MEDICAL Remmele is an equal opportunity at will employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of age, race, religion, color, disability, sex, sexual orientation or national origin. 

We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.

No recruiters, please.