Job Description SummaryThe Product Champion is a business-critical leadership role on the Coils Engineering Installed Base Team. The role ensures customer and business needs are met for the Coils portfolio product family while also acting as the escalation point to ensure business leaders have early warning for emerging issues and opportunities within the product line. This role will be responsible for leading product related quality improvement projects for the Coils product family and will support the launch of new Coil products or iterations in the IB portfolio.
Job DescriptionEssential Responsibilities- Establish & execute the overall Product Quality strategy for a set of MR Coils products or components with IB Engineering and other key stakeholders
- Escalate emerging issues to Leadership as the product focal point and identify related actions
- Act as SME on product specifications and documentation
- Track and trend field data for critical coils and parts
- Utilize hardware autopsy and remote data to identify issues, root cause problems and communicate improvement opportunities
- Lead projects to ensure compliance, reduce cost, improve quality, and increase reliability, Drive Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ) actions across product, from field & factory; including scrap, rework, warranty, First Pass Yield, Early Life Failures
- Collaborate with Sourcing and Supplier Quality Engineering organization to help drive solutions for supply chain risks and quality improvements
- Collaborate with Advanced Manufacturing Engineering and Manufacturing organizations to help resolve scrap, yield, and fulfillment issues
- Collaborate with Service organization to help improve wash rate and reduce cost to serve
- Apply Lean methodologies to solve problems, improve daily work, and simplify processes.
- Lead cross functional resources & manage timely implementation of projects
Qualifications/Requirements- Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or Related Science Field (Physics, etc)
- 5+ years of relevant work experience
Desired Characteristics- Strong leadership, project execution, and influential communication skills.
- Exceptional critical thinking and problem-solving ability, including data-driven root-cause analysis and process improvement.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively and resolve conflicts.
- Strong mix of technical and business acumen with experience in product engineering, quality, manufacturing, and/or supply chain.
- Knowledge of Medical Device Quality Management Systems (FDA 21 CFR 820, ISO 13485).
- Experience with reliability analysis.
- Lean and/or Six Sigma certification.
- Active PMP certification (or equivalent).
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