Manager, Manufacturing Engineering

Job Description:

Confluent Medical Technologies is a financially healthy and rapidly growing medical device company dedicated to working collaboratively with our customers, taking their projects from rapid prototype into high volume production. Our unparalleled technical expertise, proven experience and partnership with our clients has allowed us to perfect the process necessary to deliver world-class medical devices through innovative material science, engineering, and manufacturing. Our primary capabilities include: Nitinol components and tubing, balloon expandable stents and catheters, complex catheters, biomedical textiles, and high precision polymer tubing. We take pride in our position as the leader in the medical technology space and are driven by a passion to create products that our clients have envisioned for their customers.

  At Confluent, we are committed to our values of teamwork, innovation, accountability, integrity, leadership, and customer focus, and we invest in a team who represents these values. Every member of our team plays a critical role in delivering life-saving medical devices through innovative materials science, engineering, and manufacturing. We are the medical device industry's most trusted partner, and we accomplish this with an organization focused on safety, efficiency, and customer satisfaction.

We are seeking a Manufacturing Engineering Manager to join our team in Costa Rica. This role oversees the development and implementation of manufacturing processes to ensure product functionality and cost efficiency. The position also ensures strong collaboration between the engineering team and other manufacturing areas.

Additionally, this role is responsible for developing and implementing equipment that supports manufacturing operations, as well as reviewing, evaluating, and implementing engineering changes and specification requirements.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Have supervisory responsibilities: Yes

Leadership: Supervise/manage/direct the selection, training, development, appraisal and work assignments of personnel.

Supervises:

• Manufacturing Engineer I, II, III and Staff

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage the Manufacturing Engineering team across multiple manufacturing areas, ensuring strong collaboration with other departments.
• Develop and maintain a high-performing team through hiring, coaching, training, and performance management.
• Ensure compliance with company policies and regulations, including Quality Systems, Health, Safety, and Environmental standards.
• Lead root cause analysis and corrective actions for quality issues, working cross-functionally to implement and communicate solutions.
• Identify and implement process and equipment improvements to enhance manufacturing efficiency and performance.
• Support new product introductions (NPI) by collaborating with R&D and ensuring smooth transfer from prototype to full-scale manufacturing.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives, including Lean, 5S, and Kaizen events to improve safety, quality, service, and efficiency.
• Oversee equipment design, selection, and validation to ensure compliance with safety and environmental standards.
• Support sourcing initiatives through product evaluations, process documentation, and site visits as needed.
• Prepare and review technical documentation and reports to support engineering and operational activities.

Education and/or Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Industrial, Mechanical, Electrical, Electronic Engineering, or a related field.
• Advanced English communication skills, both written and verbal (B2+).
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in supervisory or leadership roles, including at least 5 years in management positions.
• Knowledge of medical device industry standards is required.
• Hands-on experience in maintenance, calibrations, and equipment validations.
• Strong problem-solving skills using continuous improvement and quality tools such as Six Sigma, Root Cause Analysis, 5 Whys, Pareto Analysis, and Ishikawa (Fishbone) diagrams.

Other Skills and Abilities:

• Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary teams.
• Ability to work effectively in self-managed teams and adapt to flexible work schedules.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to apply basic mathematical and statistical concepts (fractions, percentages, ratios, probability) to practical situations.

This job description is an outline of the major recurring responsibilities of the job. It is not intended to be all-inclusive of the work to be performed. Other related job objectives, special assignments and less significant responsibilities will typically be performed by the incumbent(s).