Senior Mechanical Design Engineer (Surgical)
Medtronic
Summary
The Surgical Operating Unit is focused on advancing surgical care through technologies and solutions that help healthcare professionals improve patient outcomes. This position is based in Lafayette, Colorado and requires working onsite four days per week to support hands-on laboratory and engineering activities.
Job description
A Day in the Life
The Surgical Operating Unit is focused on advancing surgical care through technologies and solutions that help healthcare professionals improve patient outcomes. This position is based in Lafayette, Colorado and requires working onsite four days per week to support hands-on laboratory and engineering activities.
As a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer on our Released Product Engineering team, you will serve as a design owner for one or more released product lines, combining hands-on mechanical design with verification, testing, and product support. You will focus on driving design integrity across multiple Vessel Sealing and Dissection product lines to attain business goals consistent with cost, high quality, reliability and delivery requirements. Interacts with other functions within Supply Chain, R&D, Manufacturing, Quality and Regulatory across the organization to support change management, drive quality, and improve existing processes for new and mature products.
Primary Responsibilities
- Serve as mechanical design owner for one or more released product lines.
- Develop and modify mechanical designs, CAD models, components, assemblies, and engineering drawings.
- Create engineering protocols and reports and maintain design traceability and Design History File documentation.
- Develop test methods and fixtures and execute hands-on laboratory testing.
- Manufacturing and supplier quality support for automated test and assembly processes.
- Qualification of new molds for plastic injection molded parts and new suppliers or processes for machined components, including part and assembly design.
- Support Production Part Approval Process activities and other manufacturing-related engineering needs.
- Collaborate with local engineers and the India Design Center to address product, design, and manufacturing challenges.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's degree with 4+ years of relevant engineering experience, OR master's degree with 2+ years of relevant engineering experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in hands-on mechanical design and CAD modification (Surface modeling experience a plus).
- Experience developing GD&T and engineering drawing requirements (GD&T certification a plus).
- Experience in plastic injection molding part design and qualification.
- Experience with Creo and Windchill.
- Experience supporting medical devices, or products within other regulated industries.
- Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) or similar experience.
- Experience developing test methods and fixtures or performing Instron mechanical testing.
- Experience with microscopes, digital microscopes, oscilloscopes, digital multimeters, hipot testing, or device-resistance testing.
- Practical knowledge of project management.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree with 4+ years of relevant engineering experience, OR master's degree with 2+ years of relevant engineering experience
- Hands-on mechanical design and CAD modification
- Developing GD&T and engineering drawing requirements
- Plastic injection molding part design and qualification
- Experience with Creo and Windchill
- Experience supporting medical devices or products within other regulated industries
- Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) or similar experience
- Developing test methods and fixtures or performing Instron mechanical testing
- Experience with microscopes, digital microscopes, oscilloscopes, digital multimeters, hipot testing, or device-resistance testing
- Practical knowledge of project management
- Unrestricted U.S. work authorization required at time of hire and for duration of employment
Benefits
- Health, Dental & Vision Insurance
- Health Savings Account
- Healthcare Flexible Spending Account
- Life Insurance
- Long-term Disability Leave
- Dependent Daycare Spending Account
- Tuition Assistance
- 401(k) Matching
- Short-term Disability
- Paid Time Off
- Paid Holidays
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Employee Assistance Program
- Incentive Plans
Company overview
Medtronic is a global healthcare technology leader and one of the world's largest medical device companies, founded in 1949 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The company operates in over 150 countries and employs more than 90,000 people worldwide. Medtronic's mission is to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life through innovative medical technologies. The company develops and manufactures devices and therapies to treat more than 70 health conditions, including cardiac devices, cranial and spine robotics, insulin pumps, surgical tools, patient monitoring systems, and more. With a rich history that began with the invention of the battery-powered pacemaker, Medtronic has grown into a diversified healthcare technology company with four main business units: Minimally Invasive Therapies Group, Diabetes Group, Restorative Therapies Group, and Cardiac and Vascular Group. The company's therapies help approximately 72 million people annually and represent a significant force in advancing medical technology to address some of humanity's most challenging health problems.