About Eakin Healthcare
We put our patients at the heart of everything we do. Our story began fifty years ago with one man's mission: pharmacist, Tom George Eakin.
He saw his patients struggling with leaking urostomy pouches and decided enough was enough. He got to work and formulated what would become the game-changing, eakin Cohesive seal.
Fast forward to today, and we're still keeping it in the family. We've grown a lot since then, both organically and through acquisitions.
We now have a team of over 700 colleagues across three manufacturing sites and 12 sales and distribution centres. We make a difference in three therapeutic areas: Ostomy, Respiratory, and Surgical.
We're proud to export our innovative products to over 60 countries through a network of 40 distributors plus our own offices in Japan, The Netherlands, France, Germany, Belgium, and Luxemburg.
What We Offer
* Bonus
* 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (rising to 28)
* Option to buy holiday days
* Wellbeing Programme
* Health Cash Plan
* Pension
* Life Assurance
* Enhanced Maternity/Paternity
* Cycle to Work Scheme
* Referral Scheme
* Long Service Awards
* Free Parking
About the Role
This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing team and work across various functions. You'll be reporting directly to the Head of Engineering and working in close partnership with Operations, Quality & Research and Development teams.
The role is partially hands-on and will suit an individual who can quickly build professional working relationships, work within a team, and enjoy working to a high degree of autonomy.
Key Activities
* Operational - Be the internal Subject Matter Expert for the manufacturing Processes you have been assigned.
* Central to this role is monitoring existing Processes ensuring they are operating to their designed efficiency and output, leading actions when there are any identified issues.
* Maintaining process maps & PFMEA's for the Processes you have been assigned, regularly assessing process controls throughout the manufacturing environment.
* In accordance with internal change management, implement process improvements and keeping under review the effectiveness of changes.
* Liaise with the Quality team to ensure technical specifications and process validations are in place in a timely manner in accordance with the Site Master Validation Plan.
* Advise and coordinate with the Engineering Manager on any new equipment, tooling etc required for new products or process improvements ensuring the lead times are considered against project plans for product launches.
* Work alongside the production team to identify skills required from production operators and develop these to achieve team goals.
* Lean Manufacturing - Contribute to lean manufacturing systems, visual management & 5 S.
* Occasionally work on multi-site projects with the wider group operations and engineering teams.
* Collaborate on benchmarking & best practice sharing.
Additional Information
* Provide input to the annual budgetary process and contribute to key budgetary decisions.
* Occasional Travel Requirements.
Key Skills
* A degree / HND or be working towards an equivalent qualification in an engineering discipline.
* Applicants with an HNC (or be working towards an equivalent qualification) will be considered if they have exceptional relevant experience.
* Previous manufacturing experience in a similar role.
* Awareness of continuous improvement methods to improve overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), quality, reduce cost, inefficiencies, and waste.
* Hold a valid driving licence and able to travel internationally if required.
* Good working knowledge of MS Excel.
* Able to use 2D CAD systems e.g. Auto CAD.
* Able to demonstrate a Working knowledge of electro-mechanical systems.
* Desirable Knowledge of ISO 13485 quality systems or an equivalent highly regulated environment.
* Have a proven track record as a process subject matter expert with the technical depth to adapt this knowledge to new technologies.
* Previous experience of improvement projects in Lean manufacturing tools, to demonstrate use of some of the following tools: lean six sigma, Kaizan, 5 S, Standard work, Kanban, and value stream mapping.
* Experience with Automation and robotic control systems.
* Experience of manual assembly production processes.