Product Development Engineer II

Work Schedule

Environmental Conditions

Job Description

• Location: St. Paul MN no relocation assistance provided

• Generally requires four days per week onsite with schedule flexibility to accommodate evening meetings with colleagues in Japan.

• Up to 10% domestic and international travel potentially including travel to Japan.

• Must be eligible to work in the US without requiring sponsorship

Make an Impact at Thermo Fisher Scientific

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team youll do meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Every day our colleagues bring our Mission to life by enabling our customers to make the world healthier cleaner and safer.

We provide our global teams with the resources and opportunities needed to achieve their career goals while advancing science and developing solutions to some of the worlds toughest challengesfrom protecting the environment and helping ensure food safety to supporting the search for cures for cancer.

The Role

Join our Research & Development team in Maplewood MN as a Product Development Engineer II supporting commercially released products with a primary focus on our industrial product portfolio.

In this role you will provide engineering support for product and manufacturing changes involving materials suppliers processes equipment and product improvements. You will evaluate technical impacts support testing and qualification activities investigate technical issues and develop engineering documentation to ensure products continue to meet performance quality and manufacturing requirements.

You will collaborate closely with Manufacturing Quality R&D Supplier Quality Operations and other cross-functional partners. A key component of this position is working with colleagues in Japan including communicating technical information and coordinating engineering activities across U.S. and Japanese teams.

What Youll Do

• Support changes to commercially released products including changes involving materials suppliers manufacturing processes equipment and product improvements.

• Evaluate the technical impact of proposed product and manufacturing changes.

• Plan and support testing qualification verification and validation activities as appropriate.

• Investigate product process and manufacturing issues and support development of effective technical solutions.

• Prepare clear and accurate engineering documentation to support product changes investigations testing and qualification activities.

• Analyze engineering data and use results to support technical decisions and recommendations.

• Partner with Manufacturing Quality R&D Supplier Quality Operations and other cross-functional teams.

• Work directly with manufacturing and production teams to understand processes troubleshoot issues and implement improvements.

• Communicate technical information and coordinate engineering activities with colleagues in Japan.

• Support change control risk assessment and other quality-system activities associated with sustaining commercially released products.

How Youll Get Here

Required Education and Experience

• Bachelors degree in Engineering or a related scientific discipline.

• Fluency in written and spoken Japanese and English.

• 1 years of relevant product or engineering support experience; additional related experience will also be considered.

• Experience supporting product material process equipment or supplier changes.

• Ability to analyze technical problems and support testing qualification verification and validation activities.

• Strong technical documentation and cross-functional collaboration skills.

• Work may include manufacturing or laboratory environments requiring appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE).

Preferred Experience

• Experience supporting commercially released or sustaining products.

• Experience working directly with manufacturing or production teams.

• Familiarity with ISO 9001 ISO 13485 GMP or similar quality systems.

• Familiarity with change control risk assessment FMEA and qualification activities.

• Experience with statistical analysis and interpretation of engineering data.

• Experience with industrial filtration separation technologies membranes porous materials fluid handling or related industrial products.

• Experience collaborating with engineering or manufacturing teams in Japan.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities

• Strong analytical problem-solving organizational and technical writing skills.

• Ability to understand and evaluate relationships among product design materials manufacturing processes and product performance.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills in both Japanese and English.

• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively across global cross-functional and cross-cultural teams.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and relevant engineering or quality systems.

• Ability and willingness to work directly in a manufacturing environment.

Compensation and Benefits

This position may also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company team and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our U.S. colleagues and their families can count on which includes:

• A choice of national medical and dental plans and a national vision plan including health incentive programs

• Employee assistance and family support programs including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement

• At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO) 10 paid holidays annually paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave) accident and life insurance and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy

• Retirement and savings programs such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan

• Employees Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount

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