Senior Equipment Engineer

Additional Locations: Costa Rica-Heredia

Diversity - Innovation - Caring - Global Collaboration - Winning Spirit - High Performance

At our company, we value diversity and believe it is our greatest strength. We are committed to empowering women, supporting the LGBTQ+ community, and creating opportunities for individuals with disabilities. Our belief is that your diversity enriches our work environment. As an equal opportunity employer, we wholeheartedly welcome applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of their background. Additionally, we have a Gender Equality Policy that reflects our commitment to fairness and equality in the workplace.

About the Role

Apply engineering and people-leadership principles to improve product quality, enhance customer service, and reduce costs by optimizing existing manufacturing equipment, leading new equipment development projects, and, when assigned, supervising a technician team that provides safe, compliant, and reliable support in a regulated medical-device manufacturing environment.

Your Responsibilities Include:

• Provide technical expertise to innovate, develop, and support manufacturing processes, procedures, tooling, and automation systems.
• Create, review, and interpret technical documentation, including specifications, validations, prototypes, technical manuals, 3D models, schematics, equipment drawings, and bills of materials (BOMs).
• Lead problem-solving teams using BSC Engineering Essentials tools.
• Apply project management methodologies to ensure equipment projects meet performance, schedule, and cost objectives.
• Demonstrate the ability to manage multiple complex projects simultaneously.
• Understand and drive the positive impact of equipment projects on product cost elements.
• Actively participate in cross-functional continuous improvement initiatives.
• Communicate effectively and regularly with equipment project sponsors, customers, and stakeholders.
• Provide technical expertise for the relocation, installation, start-up, qualification, training, and sustaining of equipment related to product and process transfers across the BSC manufacturing network.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Lead, coach, and supervise a team of equipment maintenance technicians; set clear expectations and daily priorities, assign work, balance resources and shift coverage, and promote a culture of respect, accountability, inclusion, and teamwork.
• Manage employee performance through goal setting, regular one-on-one discussions, timely feedback, recognition, and formal evaluations. Address attendance, conduct, or performance concerns; administer disciplinary actions when required; and ensure accurate Kronos time records and compliance with established work schedules.
• Assess technical capabilities and training needs; establish individual development, cross-training, and qualification plans; mentor technicians; and support knowledge transfer and succession planning to strengthen team capability and coverage.
• Serve as the technical escalation point for complex, high-impact, or recurring equipment issues. Guide structured troubleshooting, challenge assumptions and proposed solutions, facilitate risk-based decisions, and ensure safe, timely, and sustainable recovery of manufacturing operations.
• Review and technically challenge root cause analyses, corrective and preventive actions, maintenance strategies, equipment modifications, and vendor recommendations to ensure solutions are data-driven, appropriately documented, validated or qualified as required, and effective in preventing recurrence.
• Own the execution and performance of corrective and preventive maintenance within the assigned scope, including downtime, customer service, technician response times, work-order quality, preventive maintenance audit results, spare-parts consumption, tool inventory, and 5S results. Use performance trends to prioritize reliability improvements.
• Coordinate staffing, contractors, and technical support for planned shutdowns, equipment installations, start-ups, qualifications, transfers, maintenance windows, and unplanned production events. Ensure effective shift handoffs, contingency coverage, and timely escalation of risks.
• Build strong partnerships with Manufacturing, Engineering, Quality, Environmental Health and Safety (EHS), Validation, Supply Chain, and other stakeholders. Communicate priorities, equipment status, recovery plans, resource constraints, decisions, and business risks clearly and promptly.
• Ensure technician compliance with BSC procedures, quality system and regulatory requirements, proper PPE and LOTO practices, and complete and accurate CM/PM documentation. Maintain audit readiness and support investigations and corrective and preventive action (CAPA) activities.
• Drive continuous improvement through equipment data analysis, standard work, lessons learned, and cross-functional problem solving. Promote standardization, mistake-proofing, and sustainable reductions in chronic failures, maintenance cost, and operational risk.

What We're Looking For:

• Bachelor's or Licentiate degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electromechanical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Industrial Maintenance Engineering.
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience.
• Desired English proficiency level: 70-79%.
• Technical competencies: Problem Solving, Networking, and Process Improvement.

Requisition ID: 631526

As a leader in medical science for more than 40 years, we are committed to solving the challenges that matter most – united by a deep caring for human life. Our mission to advance science for life is about transforming lives through innovative medical solutions that improve patient lives, create value for our customers, and support our employees and the communities in which we operate. Now more than ever, we have a responsibility to apply those values to everything we do – as a global business and as a global corporate citizen.

So, choosing a career with Boston Scientific (NYSE: BSX) isn’t just business, it’s personal. And if you’re a natural problem-solver with the imagination, determination, and spirit to make a meaningful difference to people worldwide, we encourage you to apply and look forward to connecting with you!

Benefits • Life-Work Integration • Community • Career Growth

At Boston Scientific, you will find a collaborative culture driven by a passion for innovation that keeps us connected on the most essential level. With determination, imagination, and a deep caring for human life, we’re solving some of the most important healthcare industry challenges. Together, we’re one global team committed to making a difference in people’s lives around the world. This is a place where you can find a career with meaningful purpose—improving lives through your life’s work.