Engineering Technician

Company Overview

Headquartered in suburban Atlanta, Georgia, Artivion, Inc. is a medical device company focused on developing simple, elegant solutions that address cardiac and vascular surgeons' most difficult challenges in treating patients with aortic diseases. Our Austin facility comprises a diverse team, including quality engineers, sustaining engineers, production associates, IT professionals, and various other experts dedicated to supporting the production of our On-X Mechanical Heart Valves. Artivion has over 1,400 employees worldwide with sales representation in over 100 countries. The Company has manufacturing facilities located in Atlanta, Georgia, Austin, Texas and Hechingen, Germany. Additionally, it has sales and distribution offices in various countries throughout Europe, Asia, and South America. For additional information about Artivion, visit our website, www.artivion.com.

POSITION OBJECTIVE
Duties include new equipment and process development, implementation, and verification/validation support; existing equipment and process refinement and troubleshooting; tool, fixture, and gage design, fabrication, implementation, and verification/validation support; and R&D prototype fabrication.

PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES

* Support the development, testing and implementation of processes that are highly complex in nature. These can include new or existing, single or multi-process systems.
* Responsible for analyzing Equipment and Process related problems (debug) as assigned and implementing solutions.
* Responsible for overseeing Engineering Projects that are relatively simple in scope.
* Work jointly with Engineering, Production, Quality Control and Quality Assurance to assure assigned processes consistently produce acceptable components or subassemblies according to applicable drawings, specifications and procedures.
* Assist Engineering in selecting vendors for component manufacturing operations.
* Design and develop tools, fixtures and gages to facilitate manufacturing operations.
* Fabricate prototypes for new products in design and development.
* Maintain in-depth knowledge of pertinent Manufacturing Technologies and disseminate this information to various engineering and production groups as requested.

Additional Responsibilities:
* Stay current with various material removal, inspection, and manufacturing systems technologies and philosophies.
* Provide various component cycle time estimates for product costing
* Perform additional duties that may be assigned by Supervisor
* Relate to other people beyond giving and receiving instructions: (a) can get along with co-workers or peers without exhibiting behavioral extremes; (b) perform work activities requiring instructing, persuading or speaking with others; and (c) respond appropriately to criticism from a supervisor
* Manage time effectively; prioritize and make good business judgments and decisions in relationship to efficiency

Other responsibilities as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS
* Two year technical degree and 8 years of Manufacturing and/or Engineering experience or 10 years of Manufacturing and/or Engineering experience.
* Needs to be well versed in Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing; manufacturing processing and inspection techniques; process control (including automation and SPC); and project justification/scheduling.
* Familiar with 5S and Lean Manufacturing techniques
* Ability to fabricate prototypes for new products, fixtures and tools.
* Ability to successfully perform job duties in a fast pace, quick changing entrepreneurial environment.
* Ability to read, analyze, interpret and follow written instructions
* Ability to interpret and follow oral instructions
* Required to read, write and speak English with good command of the language, and use simple math.
* Basic computer skills including at minimum, be adept in use of MS Office, internet, and electronic mail.
* Strong interpersonal and communication skills
* Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
* Able to travel to vendors, customers and trade shows