Staff Manufacturing Engineer

Dexcom Inc

Dexcom Inc

Other Engineering
Mesa, AZ, USA
USD 111,100-185,100 / year
Posted on May 3, 2025

The Company

Dexcom Corporation (NASDAQ DXCM) is a pioneer and global leader in continuous glucose monitoring (CGM). Dexcom began as a small company with a big dream: To forever change how diabetes is managed. To unlock information and insights that drive better health outcomes. Here we are 25 years later, having pioneered an industry. And we're just getting started. We are broadening our vision beyond diabetes to empower people to take control of health. That means personalized, actionable insights aimed at solving important health challenges. To continue what we've started: Improving human health.

We are driven by thousands of ambitious, passionate people worldwide who are willing to fight like warriors to earn the trust of our customers by listening, serving with integrity, thinking big, and being dependable. We've already changed millions of lives and we're ready to change millions more. Our future ambition is to become a leading consumer health technology company while continuing to develop solutions for serious health conditions. We'll get there by constantly reinventing unique biosensing-technology experiences. Though we've come a long way from our small company days, our dreams are bigger than ever. The opportunity to improve health on a global scale stands before us.

Meet the team:

As an Industrial and Manufacturing Engineer at Dexcom, you will play a pivotal role in scaling Manufacturing in a high-volume environment and introduce new products in close collaboration with the Innovation Center. You will operate in a high visibility role, optimizing our production layouts, enhancing our capacity modeling capabilities, and leveraging cutting-edge technology to streamline operations. Your expertise will be crucial in ensuring our manufacturing processes are efficient, scalable, and aligned with our commitment to quality, innovation and scale.

Where you come in:

  • You will design concepts and input requirements in the planning and design of existing production systems and New Product Introductions (NPI). You will use product, process, and flow and activity analysis techniques to design optimal layouts and material flows.

  • You will leverage production and quality data to own the site capacity model, identify and break factory constraints to scale the site output

  • You will use Operations Research (i.e. linear programming) to optimize manufacturing operations

  • You will lead improvement projects, establishing engineering standards, and promoting a culture of operational excellence

  • You will develop and introduce new KPIs that drive the site maturity

  • You will lead and drive improvement projects using structured problem solving (A3, DMAIC, PDCA) methodologies to deliver measurable savings

  • You will develop ideal work-station design and integration with Systems Engineering technologies to drive automation solutions and mistake proofing for Manufacturing Associates and Technicians

  • You will act as a liaison between Operations, Global Engineering, Supply Chain and Finance organizations

  • You will collaborate with the Innovation Center of Excellence for effective product transfer and scale

What makes you successful:

  • You are a self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced environment

  • You are comfortable collaborating with all levels within Operations including Manufacturing, Engineering, Facilities and Quality

  • Driven to collaborate directly with the shop floor personnel to develop impactful solutions that enhance the daily work experience of product builders, team leads and supervisors

  • Excellent communication, leadership and project management skills

  • You have prior experience in Medical Devices and understanding of ISO 13485, CFR and other applicable standards

  • Knowledge and understanding of SQL, Tableau, BigQuery enterprise manufacturing execution systems to support GMP processes

  • Strong knowledge of Six Sigma, Theory of Constraints, operations research, statistical methods

  • Proficient in computer-aided layout design and evaluation.

What you’ll get:

  • A front row seat to life changing CGM technology. Learn about our brave #dexcomwarriors community.

  • A full and comprehensive benefits program.

  • Growth opportunities on a global scale.

  • Access to career development through in-house learning programs and/or qualified tuition reimbursement.

  • An exciting and innovative, industry-leading organization committed to our employees, customers, and the communities we serve.

Travel Required:

  • 5-15%

Experience and Education Requirements:

  • Typically requires a Bachelors degree in a technical discipline with 8-12 years of related industry experience or a Masters degree and 5-7 years equivalent industry experience of a PhD and 2-4 years of experience.

Flex Workplace: Your primary location will be a home office. You will not have an assigned workstation and will work with your manager to determine office visit needs. You must live within commuting distance of your assigned Dexcom site (typically 75 miles/120km).

Please note: The information contained herein is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of the duties and responsibilities of the job, nor are they intended to be an all-inclusive list of the skills and abilities required to do the job. Management may, at its discretion, assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time. The duties and responsibilities in this job description may be subject to change at any time due to reasonable accommodation or other reasons. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. Dexcom’s AAP may be viewed upon request by contacting Talent Acquisition at talentacquisition@dexcom.com.

If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process, please contact Dexcom Talent Acquisition at talentacquisition@dexcom.com.

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Meritain, an Aetna Company, creates and publishes the Machine-Readable Files on behalf of Dexcom. To link to the Machine-Readable Files, please click on the URL provided: https://health1.meritain.com/app/public/#/one/insurerCode=MERITAIN_I&brandCode=MERITAINOVER/machine-readable-transparency-in-coverage?reportingEntityType=TPA_19874&lock=true

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Salary:

$111,100.00 - $185,100.00