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The Engineering Supervisor plays a critical leadership role in overseeing engineering teams and ensuring the successful planning, execution, and completion of projects. This role focuses on supervising personnel, driving team performance, optimizing workflow efficiency, and maintaining quality, safety, and regulatory compliance. The supervisor is responsible for coordinating cross-functional efforts, resolving operational challenges, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and accountability.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Team Leadership & Development

• Provide guidance and mentorship to engineers, fostering a collaborative and efficient work environment.

• Establish clear performance expectations and offer coaching to support professional growth.

• Conduct regular reviews to assess progress and create opportunities for skill development.

• Ensure the team has access to the necessary tools, training, and resources for success.

• Support task allocation and workflow organization to optimize efficiency and maintain high-quality outcomes.

Project Oversight & Execution

• Supervise engineering projects from concept to completion, ensuring alignment with business objectives.

• Monitor progress, proactively resolve challenges, and maintain project timelines.

• Enforce adherence to quality standards, cost targets, and engineering best practices.

• Oversee development of assembly procedures, technical documentation, and data analysis.

• Guide tooling and fixture design, ensuring manufacturability and precision.

• Support CNC machining processes, assembly operations, and validation activities.

• Provide oversight on engineering processes involving hard materials such as ceramics, ruby, sapphire, and glass, ensuring production efficiency.

• Support proper training and best practices for grinding and lapping equipment operation.

• Support the implementation of high-volume automation systems, overseeing maintenance and optimization to improve manufacturing efficiency.

Technical Leadership & Decision Making

• Offer technical expertise on engineering methodologies, including DOE, FMEA, and DMAIC.

• Contribute to continuous improvement efforts, patents, and proprietary processes.

• Facilitate cross-functional collaboration to resolve engineering challenges.

• Provide guidance on fluid control and electro-mechanical devices such as pumps, sensors, solenoid/rotary valves, and related test equipment.

• Oversee the specification, procurement, and implementation of automated equipment, ensuring validation processes like IQOQPQ are followed.

Strategic Communication & Stakeholder Engagement

• Act as the liaison between engineering teams, leadership, and external partners.

• Lead structured meetings to align priorities and project objectives.

• Present technical findings to varied audiences, ensuring clarity and engagement.

• Generate reports summarizing resolutions, technical developments, and project updates.

Customer & Cross-Functional Interaction

• Represent the engineering team in discussions with customers, suppliers, and internal stakeholders.

• Address client inquiries professionally, ensuring alignment with project milestones and objectives.

• Lead discussions on technical feasibility, engineering challenges, and solutions.

Continuous Improvement & Operational Excellence

• Identify and implement process improvements to enhance efficiency and quality.

• Utilize Lean, Six Sigma, and other methodologies to drive operational enhancements.

• Oversee corrective action initiatives and ensure swift resolution of production inefficiencies.

• Support qualification of new materials and validation of manufacturing processes.

• Promote a culture of innovation, technical excellence, and accountability.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering (Mechanical, Manufacturing, Industrial, or related discipline).

• Engineering experience in a manufacturing or product development environment.

• Leadership or supervisory experience in an engineering or technical role.

• Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, and Continuous Improvement methodologies.

• Proficiency in 3D CAD design, tooling development, and technical documentation.

• Experience working with JD Edwards or similar enterprise resource planning software to manage engineering and production workflows.

• Understanding of ergonomic practices in workplace design and process optimization.

• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams, suppliers, and customers.

• Strong communication, leadership, and problem-solving skills.

• Familiarity with fluid control and electro-mechanical devices, including pumps, sensors, solenoid/rotary valves, and related test equipment.

• Experience with hard materials manufacturing (Ceramics, Ruby, Sapphire, Glass) and related production processes is a plus.

• Exposure to grinding and lapping equipment, with an understanding of best practices, is beneficial but not required.

IDEX HEALTH & SCIENCE, LLC

IDEX Health & Science is the global leader in life science fluidics, microfluidics, and optics, offering a three-fold advantage to customers by bringing optofluidic paths to life with strategic partnerships, solutions, and expertise. As one of the few companies in the world with component, sub-system, and application-level experts, IDEX Health & Science helps instrument developers solve the most demanding fluidic and optical challenges in a wide array of applications. With over 1,200 employees around the world, we believe partnership will change the way the world innovates, leading to new technologies that improve our health, protect our planet, and enrich our lives. For more information visit: www.idex-hs.com

FLUIDICS TEAMS

Our fluidics team is located across Oak Harbor, WA, Rohnert Park, CA, Bristol, CT, and Middleboro, MA. At IDEX Health & Science, we don’t just build components; we also create innovative solutions that maximize performance and enable complete optimization of the fluidic pathway. Product lines include: Column Hardware, Degassers, Fluidic Connections, Manifolds, Pumps, Pump Components, Sensors, RI Detectors, and Valves.

ABOUT IDEX CORPORATION

IDEX Corporation, based in Lake Forest, Illinois (suburb of Chicago), is a $2.2 billion engineered solutions company. The company operates globally across a variety of markets, including: Agriculture, Analytical Instrumentation, Food and Beverage, Chemical Processing, Clinical Diagnostics, Custom Precision Dispensing, Fire & Rescue, Fuels & Energy, Medical, Sanitary, Semiconductor and Water.

These businesses comprise a strong platform for growth at IDEX. IDEX is committed to strategic (organic and acquisitive) growth across the business. With a strong balance sheet, IDEX is in a very good position to make strategic acquisitions going forward. At the same time, IDEX is committed to finding value and has no interest in overpriced acquisitions for the sake of top line growth alone. As the company continues to evolve and grow, it will be an exciting and rewarding environment for the strategic, results-oriented, and emotionally intelligent business leader.

DISCLAIMER:

The information on this job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this role at the Middleboro facility of IDEX Health & Science. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. Requirements are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate qualified individuals with disabilities. This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an “at will” employment relationship.

IDEX Health & Science LLC., a Unit of IDEX Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to workforce diversity.

Are you ready to join a different kind of company where our people, our culture, and our commitments are centered around providing trusted solutions that improve lives around the world?

IDEX is an Equal Opportunity Employer . IDEX gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other consideration or protected category made unlawful by federal, state or local laws.

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Job Family: Engineering

Business Unit: Fluidics