Principal Engr, Product Sustainability Engr

At Cardinal Health, we're developing the innovative products and services that make healthcare safer and more productive. Join a growing, global company genuinely committed to making a difference for our customers and communities.

This role will support Delicia’s Negative Wound Pressure Therapy business and future oversight of Juarez’s Presource Kitting business.  Travel to both locations is required.

What a Sustaining Product Engineer contributes to Cardinal Health
Sustaining Engineering involves the identification, review, assessment, and resolution of deficiencies throughout a product’s life cycle. It includes the measurement, identification and verification of system technical and supportability deficiencies, associated root cause analyses, evaluation of the potential for deficiency correction and the development of a range of corrective action options.

Accountabilities

• Improve Reliability through replacement high failure-rate parts and/or improve electrical / mechanical design to correct original design flaws.
• Implement selected corrective actions to include configuration or maintenance processes and the monitoring of key sustainment metrics.
• Analyses circuit boards, connectors, or other circuits for improve reliability performance
• Source and implement technologies resulting in reduce cost of older systems. 
• Electrically or Mechanically – re-architect systems using the latest technologies to enable significant cost savings that were not realized in the original design.
• Propose designs, and processes utilized to take advantage of changes in technology that drive higher performance and/or reduced power and material overconsumption.
• Identifies opportunities to improve product quality through proactive sourcing of components and related costs.
• Responsible for ensuring quality line production fluidity and sustainability.
• Document product engineering changes and interact with other functional areas to capture design/product inputs.
• Complete projects according to outlined scope, budget, and timeline

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electromechanical or Electronic Engineering or equivalent experience is highly desired.
• 4+ years related work experience
• Ability to train and coach others from technical expertise
• Advance proficiency in English and Spanish
• Excellent problem-solving skills, root cause analysis
• Solid knowledge of statistical data analysis
• Lean Six Sigma / Continuous improvement Kaizen, Black Belt, or similar qualifications

What is expected of you and others at this level

• Applies comprehensive knowledge and a thorough understanding of concepts, principles, and technical capabilities to perform varied tasks and projects
• May contribute to the development of policies and procedures
• Works on complex projects of large scope
• Develops technical solutions to a wide range of difficult problems. Solutions are innovative and consistent with organization objectives
• Completes work independently receives general guidance on new projects
• Work reviewed for purpose of meeting objectives
• May act as a mentor to less experienced colleagues

Cardinal Health is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, veteran status, marital status, creed, status with regard to public assistance, genetic status or any other status protected by federal, state or local law.