About us

ViCentra B.V. is active in designing innovative solutions for diabetes management. The company focuses on creating simple, beautiful, and effective products that enhance the lives of people living with diabetes. By combining technological innovation with human-centered design, ViCentra aims to empower individuals with more freedom and confidence in managing their health. Their mission is driven by values such as being bold, building trust, focusing on the customer, and delivering excellence.

Job description

As a contract manufacturing specialist - injection moulding, you will help turn ViCentra's ambition to scale into reality on the factory floor. You will work closely with our Contract Manufacturing Organisations and critical suppliers, ensuring that the high precision plastic parts for our wearable insulin devices are produced efficiently while maintaining quality, delivery, capacity, and cost targets. This role combines hands-on problem solving with significant impact, as you will drive industrialisation projects and resolve process issues, ultimately bringing life-changing devices closer to those who need them.

• Act as the primary operational point of contact for assigned CMOs and critical injection moulding suppliers on day-to-day manufacturing, assembly, and engineering topics
• Support scaling and capacity expansion for injection moulded parts across our contract manufacturers and critical suppliers
• Coordinate injection moulding industrialisation projects, driving yield improvement, throughput optimisation, cost reduction, and process stabilisation
• Track key injection moulding KPIs such as cycle time, OEE, yield, and scrap, and support root cause analysis and corrective actions with CMO and supplier teams
• Facilitate recurring project and performance meetings, tracking priorities and following up on agreed actions and commitments
• Support NPI and product change activities for injection moulded parts, coordinating builds, process readiness, and manufacturing feedback
• Support verification and validation of injection moulding processes, machines, and equipment (including IQ/OQ/PQ) to meet Medical Device Regulation requirements
• Champion continuous improvement between ViCentra and its suppliers using Lean and structured problem solving methodologies

Relevant work experience

• Around 5 years of relevant experience in manufacturing engineering, industrialisation, supply chain engineering, or project-based roles within an outsourced manufacturing environment, ideally with exposure to injection moulding of plastic components
• Hands-on experience working with external manufacturers or suppliers producing high volume, high precision plastic components
• A solid understanding of injection moulding process troubleshooting and root cause analysis
• Experience in medical devices or other regulated industries (ISO 13485) is a strong plus

Skills required for the job