Technical Lead - Value Engineering

Location: Aibonito, Puerto Rico; applicants must be authorized to work for an employer in the U.S. Travel required at 10–20%.

Salary: $80,000–$100,000 annually.

Company

hirify.global develops healthcare products and solutions with a mission to save and sustain lives.

What you will do

• Identify and evaluate total cost optimization opportunities across materials, components, and manufacturing processes.
• Perform should-cost, clean-sheet, teardown, cost-driver, and benchmarking analyses.
• Lead cross-functional technical teams through project planning, execution, testing, validation, and implementation.
• Coordinate specification changes, material substitutions, sample builds, trials, change control, and cut-in planning.
• Partner with Procurement, R&D, Quality, Operations, Strategy, Finance, and suppliers on sourcing, qualification, risk mitigation, and capacity assessments.
• Track initiatives from opportunity assessment and business case development through execution, handover, and savings realization.

Requirements

• 5–8+ years of experience and a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Materials, Plastics, Chemicals, Packaging, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience delivering multi-million-dollar value engineering savings and leading cross-functional projects end to end.
• Working knowledge of GMP, change control, deviation/CAPA concepts, and validation/qualification principles.
• Strong analytical, communication, and cross-functional influence skills.
• U.S. work authorization is required; visa sponsorship is not available.

Nice to have

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

Culture & Benefits

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