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The Mechanical Engineer II – Value Engineering for Beckman Coulter Diagnostics is responsible for being a major contributor to a high functioning worldwide engineering team tasked with improving quality, performance and cost of medical diagnostic instruments.
This position is part of Value Engineering located in Chaska, MN and will be an Onsite position. At Beckman Coulter, our vision is to relentlessly reimagine healthcare, one diagnosis at a time.
You will be a part of the Global Value Engineering Team and report to the Senior Mechanical Engineering Manager who is responsible for projects related to new cost savings opportunities, including creating standard work for design standardization across all BEC products. If you thrive in a multifunctional role and want to work with a world-class Value Engineering organization—read on.
In this role, you will have the opportunity to:
• Design components and subsystems
• Utilize cutting edge manufacturing methods
• Optimize processes
• Apply design change principles within an FDA regulated environment
• Conduct failure analysis of reliability test subassemblies and components.
The essential requirements of the job include:
- Bachelor’s or master's degree in mechanical engineering and relevant experience, and 2+ years of relevant experience
- Proficiency in SolidWorks and Creo.
- Demonstrable knowledge and experience with mechanical designs using metals & plastic, manufacturing processes for injection molding, sheet metal fabrication, metal casting etc.
- Experience with engineering drawings, including tolerancing with G D& T, plus tolerance stack up and processes such as product change control, NPD, Root Cause Analysis
It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:
- Prior work experience in an engineering environment within the medical device industry highly desirable
- Experience with Should Cost Analysis
- Experience with ERP systems, Oracle preferred.
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Beckman Coulter is committed to advancing healthcare for every person by applying the power of science, technology, and the passion and creativity of our teams to enhance the diagnostic laboratory’s role in improving healthcare outcomes. Our diagnostic systems are used in complex biomedical testing, and are found in hospitals, reference laboratories and physician office settings around the globe. Beckman Coulter offers a unique combination of people, processes and solutions designed to elevate the performance of clinical laboratories and healthcare networks. We do this by accelerating care with a menu that matters, bringing the benefit of automation to all, delivering greater insights through clinical informatics and unlocking hidden value through performance partnership. An operating company of Danaher Corporation since 2011, Beckman Coulter is headquartered in Brea, Calif., and has more than 11,000 global associates working diligently to make the world a healthier place.
