Staff Equipment and Automation Engineer - 1st shift

About the role

Join our team to find a purpose-driven career, an inclusive culture, and robust benefits to support your life while you’re working to help others. Our Mission at Exact Sciences is to eradicate cancer and the suffering it causes – through tests that help prevent it, detection that finds it earlier, and guidance for its successful treatment.

Responsibilities

• Develop processes and procedures for new equipment.
• Represent Engineering in cross-functional initiatives, as assigned, and act on behalf of the department as appropriate.
• Manage new product introductions, design transfers, and product changes to ensure optimal implementation into production.
• Identify opportunities, analyze data, and work with cross-functional teams to implement solutions that improve production quality, capability, reliability, or reduce costs.
• Determine design specifications, build prototypes, test equipment, and critically evaluate design concepts for functionality, reliability, and manufacturability.
• Lead or support cross-functional teams on new equipment by providing technical expertise in implementing engineering controls, performing risk assessments and design reviews, supporting installations, and executing commissioning protocols.
• Collaborate with R&D, Operations, and/or Lab teams to ensure design for manufacturability elements are incorporated into product requirements.
• Facilitate development activities to facilitate smooth transfer of products and processes into new or existing automation systems.
• Create documentation records per regulatory and quality requirements.
• Support existing equipment by providing equipment setup and adjustment, hands-on troubleshooting, repair, planned maintenance, and performance monitoring in a Good Manufacturing Practice environment.
• Identify, document, gain approval for, execute, manage, and communicate on projects of higher scope and complexity.
• Provide clear and concise documentation and communication of project needs, scope, budget, and status to peers and leadership.
• Estimate and create schedules, determine test plans, and track progress to plan.
• Set the vision and technical direction of project teams with minimal guidance from leadership.
• Provide guidance to junior members of the team.
• Lead or participate in investigations of manufacturing processes associated with internal review, Corrective and Preventative Actions, audits, or complaints.
• Act as technical leader for one or more projects that are complex in scope at one time, while navigating and adapting to ambiguous and changing plans and circumstances.
• Proactively prioritize workload and delegate effectively to meet project deliverables.
• Work on problems which are extremely complex in scope in which analysis of data requires an evaluation of intangible variables.
• Demonstrate advanced investigative, analytical, deductive, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, with strong attention to detail and record-keeping skills required in a GMP environment.
• Work independently and as part of a team within a matrix organization.
• Uphold company mission and values through accountability, innovation, integrity, quality, and teamwork.
• Support and comply with the company’s Quality Management System policies and procedures.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering with 8+ years of experience, or, in lieu of Bachelor’s degree, Associate degree in Engineering, Technology, Electronics, or similar field with 10+ years of experience.
• Demonstrated ability to identify opportunities for improvement, reduce ambiguity by clearly defining project scope, and successfully complete projects with increasing complexity and size.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively plan projects, balance multiple competing priority projects, and lead medium to large scale projects to successful completion through disciplined project management methodology and tools.
• Experience in specifying, selecting, designing, and integrating components and manufacturing systems to solve business problems.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor less experienced engineers.
• Authorization to work in the United States without sponsorship.

Skills

• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Strong attention to detail and record-keeping skills required in a GMP environment.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team within a matrix organization.
• Ability to work in front of a computer screen and/or perform typing for approximately 80% of a typical working day.
• Ability to comply with any applicable personal protective equipment requirements.
• Ability to work on designated schedule.
• Ability to lift up to 50 pounds for

Benefits

The annual base salary shown is for this position located in US - WI - Madison on a full-time basis. In addition, this position is bonus eligible. Exact Sciences is proud to offer an employee experience that includes paid time off (including days for vacation, holidays, volunteering, and personal time), paid leave for parents and caregivers, a retirement savings plan, wellness support, and health benefits including medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage. Learn more about our benefits.

Pay

$112,000.00 - $190,000.00

Schedule

Full-time