Job Description
Oxford Nanopore Technologies is headquartered at the Oxford Science Park outside Oxford, UK, with satellite offices and a commercial presence in many global locations across the US, APAC and Europe.
Oxford Nanopore employs from multiple subject areas including nanopore science, molecular biology and applications, informatics, engineering, electronics, manufacturing and commercialisation. The management team, led by CEO Dr Gordon Sanghera, has a track record of delivering disruptive technologies to the market.
Oxford Nanopore’s sequencing platform is the only technology that offers real-time analysis, in fully scalable formats from pocket to population scale, that can analyse native DNA or RNA and sequence any length of fragment to achieve short to ultra-long read lengths. Our goal is to enable the analysis of any living thing, by anyone, anywhere!
We are looking for a highly motivated individual to join our engineering team as a Production Engineer to work on the world's first and only nanopore DNA sequencer. This is an exciting opportunity for someone passionate about new technology.
The Details...
Reporting to the Associate Director of Production Engineering and with the guidance of senior engineers, you'll work with our R&D and Production teams to define, develop, implement and support the assembly and overall Production process. You'll facilitate the development of internal and external production processes to establish and maintain production processes for new products as well as improvements to existing ones. You'll manage control of product quality from raw material goods in through to finished products. You'll always be looking for ways to develop and implement measures that improve product quality and drive cost savings.
Other Duties Include
- Provide manufacturing engineering support to Engineering Design and R&D project team and coordinate transfer of new products into manufacturing considering manufacturability and efficiency of processes
- Collate and interpret data to ensure the manufacturing processes are effectively maintained to achieve consistently high yields
- Identify production problems/deficiencies and be able to use a methodical system to solve these
- Be the escalation point for production quality issues at all stages of manufacture
- Create and maintain controlled documentation such as; process flows, process and tool drawings, component specifications, quality documentation, process routers, bills of materials, work and inspection instructions
- Optimise the manufacturing processes - improving efficiencies, reducing wastage, enhancing yield and reducing cost
What We're Looking For...
We'll expect you to have a degree in mechanical engineering or a similar subject with significant relevant industrial experience. You'll have a background of production engineering within a highly regulated industry such as medical or aerospace and have worked in manual cell manufacturing where lean initiatives have been practised. Also desirable would be experience with automating and semi-automating processes for medical products. You'll have experience in establishing and validating pilot production lines as well as in performing FMEAs, verifications and validations for medical devices products and processes. You'll also have experience in quality management tools such as NCR's, CAPAs, MRB. Alongside your strong technical background, you'll be a strong communicator with excellent writing skills enabling you to create specifications, processes and manufacturing documentation. You'll also be proficient in Microsoft Applications including Project Excel and Visio. Competency in Solidworks would also be advantageous.
This role will suit someone who enjoys working collaboratively with others from multi-disciplinary teams, likes to take a hands-on approach and is a proactive problem solver. In addition, you'll be encouraged to be self-sufficient and involved from day one with a very supportive and capable team behind you. This is an excellent opportunity to work in a fast-paced working environment on exciting projects with the prospect to develop your skills and experience further.
We offer outstanding benefits to include an attractive bonus, generous pension contributions, private healthcare and an excellent starting salary.
If you are looking to utilise your skills to really make a difference to humankind, then consider joining our team and apply today!
Please note that no terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of a person's gender, marital status, race, religion, colour, age, disability or sexual orientation. Every candidate will be assessed only in accordance with their merits, qualifications and abilities to perform the duties of the job.
About Us
Oxford Nanopore Technologies: Our goal is to bring the widest benefits to society through enabling the analysis of anything, by anyone, anywhere. The company has developed a new generation of nanopore-based sensing technology for faster, information rich, accessible and affordable molecular analysis. The first application is DNA/RNA sequencing, and the technology is in development for the analysis of other types of molecules including proteins. The technology is used to understand and characterise the biology of humans and diseases such as cancer, plants, animals, bacteria, viruses, and whole environments. With a thriving culture of ambition and strong innovation goals, Oxford Nanopore is a UK headquartered company with global operations and customers in more than 125 countries.
