Most Important Skills for a Manufacturing Engineer at Medical Device Company
Emma, a Manufacturing Engineer, emphasizes that problem-solving is paramount, stating it's "an all hands on deck situation" when production halts. Equally crucial is communication, as the role necessitates interaction with numerous teams—"working with your quality engineering, buyers, planners, and supplier quality"—to ensure smooth operations and high-quality products.
Problem-Solving, Communication, Manufacturing Processes, Quality Assurance, Teamwork
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Emma Stramberg
Manufacturing Engineer
Medical Device Company
Cal Poly SLO
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Engineering - Biomedical
Biotechnology & Pharmaceutical, Manufacturing, Operations & Supply Chain
Operations and Project Management
Greek Life Member, LGBTQ
Video Highlights
1. Problem-solving skills are crucial for quickly addressing production issues and ensuring timely product delivery.
2. Excellent communication skills are essential for collaborating with various teams (quality engineering, buyers, planners, supplier quality) and coordinating information effectively.
3. Manufacturing engineers act as central coordinators, gaining a comprehensive understanding of different business aspects and facilitating communication between teams.
Transcript
What skills are most important for a job like yours?
The main skill that comes to mind is problem-solving. It's about being able to think very quickly on your feet.
If something goes wrong, it pauses production on the line. You're not able to build anything until it gets fixed. So it's kind of an all hands on deck situation to figure out what happened, make sure it doesn't happen again, and ensure you're getting the best quality product out to your patient.
Number one, I would definitely say is problem-solving. This is followed very closely by communication.
With manufacturing engineering, you're definitely in the center of it all on the floor, watching how things get put together. You're working with your quality engineering to ensure it's a good product. You're working with your buyers, making sure you have all the components you need.
You're working with your planners, figuring out how many assemblies you need to build before the end of the month to meet your numbers. You're working with supplier quality to see if there have been any changes at the supplier impacting the parts you get in.
You're really the main point of contact for a lot of different people, and you get to see firsthand all these different aspects of the business. With that, communication is definitely key. You are in a lucky place where you get to see everything.
The challenge is communicating all that information to all those other groups.
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