Author: Jenni Prue

Production Technician at FHC, Inc

Location: Bowdoin, Maine

About the Role:

Join FHC, Inc as a Production Technician! In this role, you’ll be at the heart of our assembly process, ensuring products are crafted with precision, safety, and efficiency. You’ll work closely with our Quality System, following detailed instructions, job orders, and engineering drawings.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assemble products using FHC’s ERP system.
• Manage inventory, ensuring accurate tracking and accounting.
• Conduct in-process checks to guarantee product quality.
• Maintain product tolerances.
• Print and verify product labels.
• Engage in continuous improvement initiatives and training.

Additional Duties:

• Uphold a positive company image, emphasizing customer service.
• Participate in company-endorsed community charitable events.

What We’re Looking For:

• Detail-oriented individuals.
• Team players.
• Time management pros.
• Basic computer, blueprint reading, and math skills.
• Manual dexterity and hand-eye coordination.
• High school diploma or equivalent.

Bonus Points For:

• Experience with delicate parts in manufacturing.
• Experience working with a microscope.
• Experience in a related field or manufacturing environment.

Physical Requirements:

• Regular communication abilities.
• Frequent standing, walking, and detailed handwork.
• Ability to occasionally lift items over 25 pounds.

Workplace Highlights:

• Smoke-free environment.
• Moderate noise levels.

How to Apply:

Ready to join our team? Submit your resume to hr@fh-co.com. We look forward to hearing from you!

SUMMARY: This position will perform all job responsibilities with coaching and direction from lead classroom teachers or other senior level staff. This role serves as a caregiver responsible for helping to meet the physical and emotional needs of designated group or classroom of children daily. A positive attitude and a passion for excellence in customer service and for promoting the well-being of children is essential as is a high degree of reliability.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Other duties may be assigned.
• Provide constant supervision of assigned children and arrange for temporary coverage when you must be out of the room.
• Assist classroom leads in implementing planned curriculum.
• Be fully prepared at designated start time each day to be in the assigned classroom or other area for child supervision, such as the gym or playground, as instructed.
• Follow classroom lead’s predictable routine in the classroom each day and expect to provide children in outdoor play every day.
• Keep each child’s records, identifying information, behavior, and assessments completely confidential—being careful not to discuss individual children within earshot of others.
• Facilitate and support potty training when each child’s individual cues and behavior indicates readiness.
• Follow internal mandated reporting protocols, document any indications / concerns about child neglect or abuse, and report them to senior-level staff.
• Participate in collaborative and routine center maintenance activities, including keeping assigned classroom space clean and orderly with extraneous materials stowed away.
• Provide coverage for co-workers’ breaks as scheduled or requested.
• Maintain professional personal appearance appropriate for work with young children—no spaghetti-strap tank tops or overly short shorts.
• Question the identity of anyone who comes on premises and is not personally known to you. Ask for photo ID from anyone onsite to pick-up children that you have not met before. Please also check children’s folders for names of those authorized to remove children from care. If you are at all uncertain about identity or authorization, alert senior staff or place a call to parents. It is always better to err on the side of caution!

COLLATERAL DUTIES:
• Maintain a positive attitude and a passion for excellence in customer service and for promoting the well-being of the company, its products and its employees.
• Enthusiastically participate in company sponsored community events for the sake of charitable giving in the amount of 4 hours each quarter year.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:
None at this time.

QUALIFICATIONS:
Verifiable related experience, solid applicable references, and must love children.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE:
High School Diploma and verifiable related experience.

LANGUAGE SKILLS:
Must be articulate and have strong spoken and written communication skills in English language.
Knowledge of American Sign Language highly desirable.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS:
Basic computation skills required.

REASONING ABILITY:
Must be able to use reason in prioritization in situations requiring immediate response

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS:
Pediatric CPR and First Aid training.
Acquire 30 hours of industry training each year, maintain log of training hours, and submit to personnel file for licensing inspection.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; and use hands and fingers to handle or feel. The employee is occasionally required to sit; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move more than 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the professional, smoke-free work environment is usually moderate.

FHC is looking for a Product Development Engineer with a focus on electrical engineering. The engineer will be responsible for assisting in developing and maintaining FHC’s medical and research product lines. The ideal candidate will have experience in a regulated industry and will have technical competencies in the areas of Engineering/Electrical Engineering and Medical Device Development. In addition to strong design competencies, the candidate will also support manufacturing operations and provide technical support for select products. This is a great opportunity for an Engineer who is passionate about Medical Devices and improving the human condition.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Maintain familiarity with relevant portions of the FHC Quality System and perform all duties within its guidelines, specifically those pertaining to design control, Engineering Changes (ECs) and Corrective and Preventive Action (CAPA).
• Deliver clear and concise communication, both written and verbal, to management, other team members and end users. 
• Generate new product concepts and production assemblies leveraging skills with 3D CAD tools. 
• Actively participate in all phases of the product development lifecycle including design, implementation, verification, validation and design transfer. 

• Maintain familiarity with regulatory safety requirements for medical and research grade equipment.
• Generate procedural support documentation and user manuals.
• Create and maintain production prints, assembly instructions, bills of material, and other documentation related to developed products.
• Develop and Manage production processes to maintain and improve performance and reliability.

COLLATERAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Maintain a positive attitude and a passion for excellence in customer service and for promoting the well-being of the company, its products and its employees.
• Enthusiastic participation in company sponsored or other community events will be considered in performance reviews.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE:

• Associate Degree in Engineering technology, Bachelor of Science Degree in the field of Engineering, Electrical Engineering or Biomedical Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Preferably a minimum of 4 years of experience working in a regulated industry.
• Hands-on engineering skills with the proven ability to work well in a team environment and drive individual projects.
• Familiarity with chemicals and chemical safety is a plus.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

None at this time.

QUALIFICATIONS: 

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.  Excellent written and interpersonal communication skills are required.

LANGUAGE SKILLS:

English.  Additional languages are beneficial.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS AND REASONING ABILITY:

Solid understanding of higher math including calculus and trigonometry, strong scientific aptitude.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS:

None required.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear.  The employee frequently is required to stand, walk; and use of hands and fingers, handle, or feel.  The employee is occasionally required to sit; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and taste or smell.  The employee must occasionally lift and/or move more than 25 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

 WORK ENVIRONMENT:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  The noise level in the professional, smoke-free work environment is usually moderate.