Process Engineer
Phoenix, NM - USA
Job Summary
Job Description Summary
The Process Engineer is responsible for driving equipment optimization process improvements and costsaving initiatives to enhance operational efficiency and product quality. This role provides highlevel engineering support for equipment health operational practices and longterm reliability strategies. The engineer will also lead efforts to identify and implement cost reduction opportunities including evaluating calibration insourcing options. This position plays a key role in strengthening manufacturing performance reducing waste and ensuring sustainable operational readiness.Job Description
Job Description
1. Equipment & Process Optimization
- Improve equipment performance stability and uptime across assigned production areas.
- Identify bottlenecks and opportunities to increase throughput and efficiency.
- Lead and execute projects that reduce scrap rework cycle time and process variability.
- Partner with crossfunctional teams to ensure optimization efforts translate into measurable capacity increases and product quality improvements.
2. CostSaving Initiatives (CCP)
- Identify and drive cost reduction opportunities aligned with company financial goals.
- Lead waste elimination activities and support continuous improvement projects using structured methodologies.
- Provide datadriven justification for proposed improvements and ensure validated savings are realized and sustained.
3. Engineering Support for Equipment Operational Practices
- Provide highlevel engineering insights into equipment operations.
- Support reviews of longterm equipment health metrics and performance indicators.
- Offer engineering recommendations to enhance service practices reliability and risk mitigation.
- Contribute to criticalspare strategy discussions to reduce operational downtime and exposure.
- Strengthen equipment readiness through strategic guidance and crossfunctional collaboration.
4. Calibration Cost Optimization
- Analyze external calibration expenses and identify opportunities for targeted insourcing.
- Conduct costbenefit evaluations to determine feasibility savings potential and operational impact.
- Support teams in defining processes or technical requirements needed to enable costoptimized calibration execution.
Additional Responsibilities
- Support continuous improvement culture and operational excellence initiatives.
- Collaborate with Manufacturing Engineering Maintenance Production and Quality teams as needed.
- Use data analysis and structured problemsolving to drive decisions and recommendations.
- Ensure compliance with EHS regulations quality standards and internal policies.
Qualification Requirements
Required
- Bachelors degree in Engineering (Mechanical Manufacturing Industrial Electrical or related field)
or equivalent combination of education and relevant technical experience. - Demonstrated experience in manufacturing engineering or equipment optimization (typically 3 years).
- Strong analytical and problemsolving skills with experience reducing scrap downtime or process variation.
- Ability to interpret equipment performance data and recommend improvements.
- Knowledge of Lean Six Sigma or continuous improvement methodologies.
- Experience leading crossfunctional engineering or costsaving projects.
- Proficiency in technical documentation data analysis tools and computerized maintenance or manufacturing systems.
- Strong communication skills for crossfunctional collaboration.
Preferred (Nice to Have)
- Experience in semiconductor electronics manufacturing precision machining or similar hightech production environments.
- Prior involvement in calibration management equipment health monitoring or sparestrategy planning.
- Formal Lean/Six Sigma certification (Green Belt or higher).
- Familiarity with root cause analysis tools (5Whys Fishbone FMEA etc.).
Additional Information
GE HealthCare offers a great work environment professional development challenging careers and competitive compensation. GE HealthCare is anEqual Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race color religion national or ethnic origin sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression age disability protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
GE HealthCare will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).
While GE HealthCare does not currently require U.S. employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 some GE HealthCare customers have vaccination mandates that may apply to certain GE HealthCare employees.
Relocation Assistance Provided: No
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About Company
GE HealthCare provides digital infrastructure, data analytics & decision support tools helps in diagnosis, treatment and monitoring of patients