The posting
Description
The Senior NPI Engineer owns the transfer of Onera's products from development into reliable, repeatable manufacturing at external partners. Sitting within the Manufacturing & Operations team, this role is the technical bridge between Onera's R&D engineers and the contract manufacturers who build the product.
Assembly of Onera’s product is generally outsourced, with a primary manufacturing partner in Asia and additional third-party suppliers. That makes this a build role rather than a maintain role: you will be setting up manufacturing capability on the supply side, defining and qualifying processes, and raising the technical capability of partners who are new to Onera's product.
This is a hands-on, data-driven engineering role for someone who reads process data, finds root cause, and anticipates the problem before it reaches the line.
About Onera Health
Onera Health is a leader in transforming sleep medicine and remote monitoring. Our breakthrough diagnostic solutions are designed to help the millions of people living with sleep-related conditions, and to support the monitoring of chronic disease — improving patient outcomes around the world.
Onera’s FDA-cleared and CE-marked home polysomnography (hPSG) platform brings clinical-grade sleep diagnostics out of the sleep lab and into the patient’s home, using wireless, patient-applied patches.
What you will do
New product introduction
- Lead the transfer of new and revised products from development into volume manufacturing at external partners
- Define, validate and document manufacturing and assembly processes, including process capability, test coverage and yield targets
- Support design for manufacturability, working with R&D so that products are designed to be built at scale
Manufacturing partners and supply-side capability
- Set up manufacturing capability at the supply side: process definition, tooling, line layout, work instructions and operator training
- Work day to day with Onera's primary manufacturing partner in Asia, and with additional third-party manufacturers and EMS providers
- Mentor and guide partner engineering teams on process technology — SMT and electronics assembly, gluing and bonding processes, screen printing, injection moulding, and final assembly
- Act as the technical point of contact for manufacturing issues, escalations and change requests
Process control and problem solving
- Read and interpret production data to draw conclusions, identify trends and drive root cause analysis
- Anticipate emerging manufacturing risks and resolve them before they affect quality, yield or delivery
- Drive corrective and preventive actions through to closure with suppliers
- Deliver continuous improvement in yield, cycle time, cost and first-pass quality
Quality and regulatory
- Ensure manufacturing processes meet medical device regulatory requirements and Onera's quality management systemEnsure manufacturing processes meet medical device regulatory requirements and Onera's quality management system
- Produce and maintain process validation documentation (IQ/OQ/PQ), risk assessments and change control records
- Support supplier audits and qualification activities
What you bring
Must have
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related technical field
- 8+ years' experience in an NPI, manufacturing, process or industrialisation engineering role
- Experience in medical devices or another regulated environment, with working knowledge of medical device manufacturing regulatory requirements
- Proven experience working with third-party manufacturers, contract manufacturers or EMS providers
- Experience setting up manufacturing capability for electromechanical devices or products
- Working knowledge of SMT and electronics assembly processes, final assembly and part manufacturing processes
- Strong analytical capability: able to read production data, draw conclusions and lead structured root cause analysis
- Able to work independently across time zones and cultures, and to influence supplier teams you do not manage
- Willing and available to travel frequently, including to Asia
Nice to have
- Hands-on experience with gluing and bonding processes, injection moulding, or other polymer and part manufacturing processes
- Experience transferring a product from prototype to volume manufacturing in Asia
- Experience with battery operated, wearable, miniaturised or sensor-based devices
- Familiarity with ISO 13485 and FDA 21 CFR Part 820
- Six Sigma, Lean or equivalent structured problem-solving training
- Experience in a scale-up or high-growth environment, where processes are built rather than inherited



