Production Engineering Co-op

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

The student will:

• Support global process improvements, production floor support and production transfer efforts through recurring meeting coordination/attendance. 
• Work in cross-functional teams that span global operations.  
• Use Lean and Six Sigma tools to analyze process trend data or communicate issues based upon data driven approach.  Identify opportunities for process and yield improvement projects. 
• Support commercial production of new products, product changes, and enhancements in coordination with the Operations, Product Development and Quality Assurance organizations.  
• Support and enforce company goals and objectives, policies and procedures, Good Manufacturing Practices, Good Documentation Practices, FDA QSR and ISO regulations.
• Assist in the development and maintaining of process documentation including assembly procedures, test procedures, routers, travelers, BOMs, process flows, and process FMEAs.
• Help execute process validations including generation of plans, protocols and reports. 
• Qualify and optimize processes and tooling via IQ/OQ/PQ, Gage R&R Studies, Process Capability Studies and Designs of Experiments.
• Participate in the investigation of failures and formulation and implementation of action plans for all internal corrective actions, audit findings
• Maintain accurate documentation of concepts, designs, and processes while maintaining current knowledge of medical, technical, and biomedical developments as related to Abiomed products.   
• Work with product development staff to ensure that products under development are designed for manufacture, test, and inspection as appropriate.