Sr Product Engineer
Medtronic
Summary
Team member responsible for Released Product Engineering (RPE) activities for surgical stapling devices. RPE is responsible for product design, Corrective Actions and Preventive Actions (CAPA) and product enhancements that ensure sustainability and improve clinical performance. Engineer will be expected to lead and/or champion initiatives from concept through implementation including presenting information/status of initiatives to management. Engineer would also be expected to provide leadership/mentorship to junior engineers.
Job description
Technical Functions
- Represents the organization in providing imaginative, thorough, practical solutions to difficult technical issues associated with specific products that are consistent with the organization’s objectives.
- Anticipates and identifies problems of a unique and challenging nature, including those requiring research and/or analysis to identify.
- Work on highly complex technical problems and provide solutions that are highly innovative and ingenious to a broad range of problems.
- Collaborate with peers to manage the development of appropriate testing to verify product meets internal and external customer requirements.
- Reviews and evaluates development protocols, results and conclusions.
- Demonstrates an understanding of functional and customer requirements.
- Collaborates with peers to develop appropriate testing to verify product meets requirements and sets appropriate specifications to ensure product reliability and manufacturability.
- Investigates customer complaints on existing products and helps to determine root cause of complaint and corrective actions if necessary.
- Incorporates required regulatory standards in developmental and/or sustaining engineering projects.
- Contributes inventions, new designs and techniques associated with the completion of specific projects.
- Provides primary technical contributions and or may lead sub projects.
- Adheres to safety policy and procedures.
Project Management
- Conducts project management tasks and documentation with design controls and risk analysis in accordance with established SOPs.
- Prepares reports, presentations and spreadsheets of an analytical and interpretative nature to be presented to peers, executives, and customers.
Must Have: Minimum Requirements
Requires a Bachelor’s degree and minimum of 4 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with 2 years of experience.
Nice to Have
- Mechanical design experience
- Demonstrated ability to interpret a variety of technical information and deal with several abstract and concrete variables
- Knowledge and understanding of design change control process
- DRM, DFSS and/or Six Sigma training/experience
- Good communication and teamwork skills.
- Designs and redesigns medium-high complexity medical devices and subsystems.
- Tests and optimizes the design by conducting experiments and evaluations including numerical verification (finite element analysis (FEA), tolerance analysis etc.)
- Prepares documentation in accordance with relevant internal Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and Design Control.
- Interacts with suppliers, participates in Design for Manufacturability (DFM) and Design for Assembly (DFA) processes to access component and assembly manufacturability.
- Participates in Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) and follows up on generated recommendations.
- Participates in pre-clinical in vivo labs, observing cases in hospitals and through planned and unplanned customer interactions.
- Creates and evaluates prototypes to generate concept and model approvals.
- In depth knowledge and application of Microsoft Office.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and minimum of 4 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with 2 years of experience
- Mechanical design experience
- Knowledge and understanding of design change control process
- DRM, DFSS and/or Six Sigma training/experience
- Good communication and teamwork skills
- In depth knowledge and application of Microsoft Office
- For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required
Benefits
- Health, Dental & Vision Insurance
- Health Savings Account
- Healthcare Flexible Spending Account
- Life Insurance
- Long-term Disability Leave
- Dependent Daycare Spending Account
- Tuition Assistance
- Incentive Plans
- 401(k) Matching
- Short-term Disability
- Paid Time Off
- Paid Holidays
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Employee Assistance Program
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.