Here's a real cut and paste from a job posting in my area. I think I'll contact him and forward my resume.
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Description My client makes diagnostic instruments. The product consists of an electronic / electro-mechanical instrument, that reads the results of the diagnostic test, and a disposable cartridge which carries the sample to the instrument. (think of a blood sugar monitor and a test strip).
This job is on the cartridge side. How many cartridges do they make? Bazzilions!
The cartridges are where my client makes it's money. The processes include chemical mixing, filling and coating.
Your job, and a very important job it is, will be to develop, refine, reconfigure, and improve, processes used to make new products, just coming out of pilot plant operations, and ramp up the production to the bazzilions level. You will reduce the process cost, leanify, and Six Sigmate, the processes used in manufacturing the cartridges. You will fine tune and tweak the equipment. . You will employ your usual tool bag, including SPC, DOE, 5S and others. The key to your performance will be that you are already an automated process wizard. The key to this job is process improvement on the chemical process side. Therefore, a BS Chemical Engineering would be the best prep.
Why should you be interested in this job? I'll tell you. This is a growing company, with a widely accepted product line, and a company that makes medical devices. If you want to work in Southern New England, and in manufacturing, then you want to be in medical devices. Trust me, with over three hundred medical device companies in the area, this is the place to be.
This position is a good, mid-range ($90K+) job in a solid, performing, medical device company, with good growth prospects, both for you and my client. While I have had a little fun writing up this ad, the points I made are, I believe, nonetheless true. If you have the kind of experience my client is looking for, I would love to talk with you, and give you more details on the job.
Requirements You must have a BS in Chemical Engineering, Chemistry or Materials Engineering. You also must have worked as a Manufacturing/Process/Automation Engineer, where you have been charged with process improvement and new process development. Having a couple of the processes mentioned above ( mixing, filling, and/or coating) in your background is important. You should have worked in high volume manufacturing, and done process improvements using lean and six sigma tools, from the standpoint of both manufacturing efficiency, and quality improvement.
Perhaps the ideal industry in your background is pharmaceuticals. If you have history is in pharmaceutical process development and validation my client will be very interested in talking with you. Remember this is a device company. There are many more medical device companies in MA than there are pharmaceutical companies. It may be time to consider the switch.
Six Sigma certification, or it's equivalent to the Green Belt level or above, is very important, as is some history of employment in an FDA-regulated and/or cGMP company.
Look, I know we are in a "hunker down" environment. If you have a job, it may not seem to you to be a good time to look. But, if you feel the least bit shaky, you owe it to yourself to at least contact me to get the full skinny. I promise that anything you send me, or tell me, will be held in the strictest confidence until after we agree that you would like me to make your application to my client.
I have worked with this client for a long time, I like them, and the people we have placed with them have enjoyed strong and steady growth. So call or email me so that we can start the exploration.
