Manager, Sustaining Engineering

Do you want to make a meaningful difference in the quality of healthcare? Omnicell is empowering health systems and pharmacies to radically transform the way they manage medications, so they can achieve the vision of the Autonomous Pharmacy. Thousands of hospitals, pharmacies, skilled nursing facilities and care homes trust Omnicell to provide continuous innovation. They need us to deliver solutions to meet the ever-evolving challenges of the healthcare landscape. We encourage creative problem solving and outside-the-box thinking that only a diverse, well-rounded workforce can bring.

Join us as we build on our powerful combination of advanced automation, predictive intelligence, and expert services to create a safer future for patients—one where medication errors are a thing of the past. You’ll be joining an organization whose culture encourages individual development, rewards intellectual curiosity, and embraces an inclusive environment. Join our growing company and help shape the future at Omnicell!

Manager, Sustaining Engineering

The Manager, Sustaining Engineering will lead a skilled group of cross-functional team members on existing products, services, or processes. She/He will focus on problem-solving, driving continuous improvement, and developing innovative technologies. Their overall objective will be to ensure optimal yield, cost, capacity, and efficiency while enabling new technology development and transfer. Direct reports = 5 – 15.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for managing a team of highly motivated product development engineers tasked with the development of components, mechanisms, subsystems that meet or exceed the expectations of internal and external stakeholders.
• Provide direction to the team to guide the product and technology decisions for our electromechanical and robotics-based products to assure our solutions deliver quality and value for our customers.
• Develop and execute test plans to validate mechanical/electrical system performance.
• Participate in design reviews and failure modes and effect analysis (FMEA) events to identify high-risk areas to improve.
• Participate in root cause analysis (RCA) efforts and define creative and effective corrective and preventive actions to improve designs, processes, and people.
• Establish and maintain design and development processes to assure they comply with the documented procedures defined within our Quality Management System as well as ISO and FDA requirements.
• Build and maintain a strong team environment within the Engineering team as well as creating an environment of deep collaboration between the development team and the product management, marketing, and other functional departments/teams.
• Responsible for proactively managing the resource needs as well as the capacity and competency gaps to assure that there is a highly capable engineering product development team in place.
• Define process and people improvement opportunities and implement specific corrective actions/assignments to continuously improve the team.
• Willing to travel to domestic and international off-site locations as necessary to directly support customers, and evaluate field issues.

Required Knowledge and Skills

• Functional management experience including managing a group of direct reports and being able to build a high-performing team.
• Cross-functional experience; works well with other departments, especially with Marketing, software engineering, manufacturing, and operations teams.
• Experience in the design/development of safe and effective systems including single and multiple fault-tolerant system designs that meet UL, CE, and FDA regulatory standards.
• Experience in applying systems engineering frameworks and product development best practices including Design for Manufacturing (DFM), GD&T, Finite Element Analysis (FEA) methodologies during the design, verification, and validation.
• Experience with Bill of Materials, MRP systems, Change Management (ECR, ECO), Root Cause Analysis (RCA), and CAPA tools/processes.
• Familiar with utilizing Design of Experiments (DOE) methodologies to effectively solve product and process-related issues.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills to understand system interfaces and to quickly analyze, troubleshoot, and determine the root cause of issues
• Self-starter, capable of working independently as well as building strong cross-functional collaborative relationships and a sense of ownership & urgency with projects and work assignments.
• The candidate must be highly motivated to work in a fast-paced, team-based environment.
• Presentation skills with strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Proficient with the Microsoft Office Suite of Products.

Basic Qualifications

• BS degree in Mechanical Engineering or Electronic Engineering
• Minimum 10 years Mechanical Engineering experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering, or Electronic Engineering, or Engineering Management
• A hands-on technical leader and device subject matter expert.
• Experience in the development of technologies implementing automation solutions for the pharmacy, nursing, and hospital sectors of the healthcare industry.
• Experience with manufacturing processes and tools including MRPs, GMPs, Process Flow Analysis, DfM, COGs reduction, and design transfer requirements/methodologies.
• Experience with DOE tools/methods to assist in debugging, identifying high-risk areas as well as streamlining product development.
• Experience with test processes/methodologies including verification, validation, qualification, acceptance, reliability, HALT and HASS testing,
• Familiarity with Agile PLM, AutoCad, Solid Works, and Labview
• Working experience with FDA regulated, ISO13485, or other highly regulated environments

Work Conditions

• Office environment

Nothing in this job description restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or on the basis of disability.

Omnicell will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information.