MANUFACTURING TECHNICIAN IV

Job Overview

At TE, you will unleash your potential working with people from diverse backgrounds and industries to create a safer, sustainable, and more connected world.

Job Overview

TE’s Medical business unit, part of the Industrial Solutions segment, offers medical device manufacturers a complete product offering and capability for minimally invasive, imaging, surgical, diagnostic, and therapeutic devices. With hundreds of design engineers and a global presence in all key medical device hubs, we are a premier partner to the world’s leading medical technology companies for their next-generation medical devices. You will have the opportunity to join the extrusion department in Wilsonville’s growing heat shrink tubing value stream.

Job Requirements

Key Responsibilities

• Be the technical lead in the extrusion department
• Set-up and run extrusion equipment for polymer tubing
• Troubleshoot and diagnose problems
• Train and certify new operators
• Audit performance of the department
• Provide feedback to operators on their performance
• Review and redline procedures for improvements
• Define process parameters in collaboration with engineering for development parts
• Collaborate effectively with others across the organization to collectively achieve business objectives
• Communicate effectively through written, verbal, non-verbal, and visual methods to achieve results
• Adhere to quality and compliance standards to ensure safe and effective use of TEs products

Other Duties

• Perform basic preventive maintenance on machines   
• Clean and maintain tooling
• Data collection and basic analysis at the direction of engineering, such as SPC
• Execute equipment qualifications
• Participate in improvement projects such as kaizen events
• Other tasks assigned by manager or requested from engineering

What your background should look like

• Two-year technical degree or equivalent experience and training, advanced math and technical course work preferred
• Minimum five-year experience operating extrusion equipment
• Demonstrated ability to develop process settings for development parts
• Demonstrated problem solving skills in support of manufacturing operations
• Demonstrated ability to train and certify operators
• Demonstrated ability to achieve results as a leader of small teams
• Experience using software programs such as Word, Excel, Teams, PLM, and SAP is preferred
• Medical device manufacturing experience is a plus

Competencies