Technical Lead - Value Engineering (Medtech)

Location: Aibonito, Puerto Rico

Salary: $80,000–$100,000 annually

Company

hirify.global develops and manufactures healthcare products focused on its mission to save and sustain lives.

What you will do

• Identify and evaluate material, component, and process cost-optimization opportunities across manufacturing sites.
• Perform should-cost, clean-sheet, teardown, benchmarking, and value-engineering analyses.
• Lead cross-functional technical projects involving specification changes, material substitutions, sample builds, trials, testing, validation, and implementation.
• Collaborate with Procurement, R&D, Quality, Operations, Strategy, Finance, and suppliers on sourcing, qualification, resilience, and capacity initiatives.
• Track opportunities from assessment and business case development through execution, savings handover, documentation, and governance.
• Escalate quality, service, regulatory, cost, and timeline risks while documenting best practices.

Requirements

• 5–8+ years of experience and a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Materials, Plastics, Chemicals, Packaging, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related field.
• Proven delivery of multi-million-dollar value-engineering savings and end-to-end cross-functional projects.
• Working knowledge of GMP, change control, deviation/CAPA concepts, and validation or qualification principles.
• Strong analytical, communication, and cross-functional influence skills.
• Travel required at 10–20%.
• Must be authorized to work for an employer in the United States; visa sponsorship is not available.

Nice to have

• Experience with alternate sourcing, supplier qualification, APQP/PPAP, regulated manufacturing, insourcing, technical transfers, and procurement leadership.
• Experience in value engineering, design for manufacturability, cost modelling, should-costing, or clean-sheet methodologies.
• Lean or Six Sigma certification.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, cross-functional manufacturing environment focused on quality and continuous improvement.
• Opportunities for professional development and continuous education.
• Eligible employee benefits may include medical and dental coverage, insurance, retirement programs, paid time off, parental leave, educational assistance, and employee support programs.
• Overtime may be required.