Job Description
Life. Unlimited. At Smith+Nephew we design and manufacture technology that takes the limits off living.
Are you passionate about advanced manufacturing and continuous improvement? Join Smith+Nephew as a Senior Sustainment Engineer and become the technical leader responsible for sustaining and optimizing our metal additive manufacturing production processes. In this highly visible role, you will drive operational excellence, improve process capability, enhance equipment reliability, and support the production of innovative medical technologies that help improve patients' lives around the world.
What will you be doing?
- Serve as the technical owner for metal additive manufacturing production processes, ensuring process stability, repeatability, and compliance.
- Drive initiatives to reduce scrap, improve yield, increase throughput, and enhance overall equipment effectiveness.
- Analyze production data to identify trends, opportunities, and sustainable process improvements.
- Develop and manage preventive maintenance strategies while partnering with Maintenance teams to improve equipment reliability and minimize downtime.
- Lead troubleshooting efforts, root cause investigations, and corrective and preventive actions related to process and equipment performance.
- Manage additive manufacturing build schedules and collaborate with Operations and Production Planning to maximize capacity utilization.
- Support validation activities including IQ, OQ, PQ, process qualifications, and revalidation efforts.
- Maintain manufacturing documentation, support audit readiness, and ensure compliance with quality and regulatory requirements.
- Partner with cross functional teams including Quality, Regulatory, Maintenance, Operations, and Supply Chain to support manufacturing excellence and business growth.
- Mentor engineers and technical staff while promoting knowledge sharing and technical excellence.
You. Unlimited. We believe in creating the greatest good for society. Our strongest investments are in our people and the patients we serve.
- Inclusion and Belonging: Committed to Welcoming, Celebrating and Thriving on Inclusion and Belonging.
- Your Future: 401k Matching Program, 401k Plus Program, Discounted Stock Purchase Plan, Tuition Reimbursement.
- Work/Life Balance: Flexible Personal/Vacation Time Off, Paid Holidays, Flex Holidays, Paid Community Service Day.
- Your Wellbeing: Medical, Dental, Vision, Health Savings Account, Employee Assistance Program, Parental Leave, Fertility and Adoption Assistance Program. Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model (for most professional roles).
- Training: Hands On, Team Customized, Mentorship.
- Extra Perks: Discounts on fitness clubs, travel and more!
Smith+Nephew provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability.
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Numbers & Facts
| Location | Memphis, TN |
| Industry | Medical Devices and Supplies |
| Company Size | 2,000 to 2,499 employees |
About Company
The Group has a history dating back 160 years to the family enterprise of Thomas James Smith who opened a small pharmacy in Hull, England in 1856. On his death in 1896, his nephew Horatio Nelson Smith took over the management of the business.
Thomas James Smith black and white photograph
Image: Thomas James Smith
A few days after the declaration of World War 1 in 1914, Horatio Nelson Smith (the nephew of the company founder T. J Smith) met with an envoy of the French President in London. The company was awarded a contract to supply £350,000 of surgical and field dressings, to be delivered in five months.
By the late 1990s, Smith & Nephew had expanded into being a diverse healthcare conglomerate with operations across the globe, including various medical devices, personal care products and traditional and pioneering woundcare treatments.
In 1998, Smith & Nephew announced a major restructuring to focus management attention and investment on three business units — wound management, endoscopy and orthopaedics — which offered high growth and margin opportunities.
Smith & Nephew was incorporated and listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1937 and in 1999 the Group was also listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
In 2001, Smith & Nephew became a constituent member of the FTSE-100 index in the UK. This means that Smith & Nephew is included in the top 100 companies traded on the London Stock Exchange measured in terms of market capitalisation.
Today, Smith & Nephew is a public limited company incorporated and headquartered in the UK and doing business in many countries around the world.
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