Key Responsibilities
Lead value engineering and localization projects for core components/subsystems of active medical devices, covering opportunity identification, technical breakdown, solution evaluation, sample verification, and mass production introduction.
Develop project roadmaps, milestones, and value delivery targets around cost optimization, functional equivalence, quality compliance, supply continuity, and mass production feasibility.
Collaborate with procurement, supply chain, manufacturing, quality, regulatory/compliance, and global R&D teams to drive cross-functional decision-making, problem solving, and project closure.
Evaluate and develop local suppliers, translating R&D design requirements into engineering and process solutions that suppliers can execute, verify, and scale to production.
Establish and lead structured design transfer from R&D to suppliers, ensuring design intent, critical requirements, specifications, drawings, test expectations, and quality controls are clearly translated, documented, and implemented at the supplier site.
Partner with suppliers and internal quality/manufacturing teams to ensure engineering product quality during development, verification, design transfer, and production introduction, including risk mitigation, issue resolution, process capability assessment, and readiness for compliant production.
Deeply engage in sample development and engineering verification by providing drawing interpretation, process optimization, DFM/DFA recommendations, and technical risk assessment to improve first-sample success rate and introduction efficiency.
Establish standard processes, evaluation templates, supplier assessment models, and project KPIs for value engineering and localization projects, building repeatable local engineering capabilities.
Act as an individual contributor in the short term while leading cross-functional virtual teams; as the project scope expands, participate in building and developing the local value engineering team.
