Mechanical Engineer

Job summary

This is an excellent opportunity to join a centre for excellence at one of the world market leaders in its field.  This is your chance to quickly become a key contributor in the development and manufacture of large scale volume hand held medical products.

Job Description

The Opportunity

• Opportunity to join a centre for excellence at one of the world market leaders in its field.
• Chance to quickly become a key contributor in the development and manufacture of large scale volume hand held medical products.
• Working with leading edge products.
• Extensive training and development exposure.
• Working with a diverse, highly collaborative team.
• Multiple tracks of career development open to employees - Progression still possible without following man management route.
• Genuine opportunity to make a difference to people's lives.
• Chance to work in a dynamic environment - Every day is different!

Key Challenges:

• Come up to speed quickly with development processes and practices associated with our quality systems.

Main Responsibilities:

• Use and application of standard principles, theories and concepts in the field is required as well as the possible requirement of working knowledge of other related disciplines.
• Exercises judgment within generally defined practices and policies in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.
• Contribute to the origination or direction of experiments through the development of methodologies, review, analyze, interpret data and prepare reports.
• May be actively involved with technical consultants.
• Understanding of overall objectives of the business and the ability to change priorities to suit them.
• Plan and prioritise work in the immediate work situation.
• Provide sound solutions to clearly defined problems/issues which require a grasp of theory and trained analysis.
• Understanding of potential costs of final products and presenting of schemes to reduce /control these costs.
• Understanding the company's manufacturing processes and designing products for good manufacturing practices.
• Address problems that require the adaptation of existing methodologies with high-level analysis and evaluation of issues.
• Evaluation of available options and implementation of the best course of action.
• Make mostly autonomous technical decisions.
• Provide a service to customers by ensuring that the detailed specification of products meets the requirements of the market.
• Agree service standards (service level agreements - timescales, quality etc) with internal and external customers ensuring that those standards are maintained in the work of teams in R&D.
• Work with timescales that are consistent with their annual objectives to encompass short term thinking and planning.
• Challenge the technical output of teams to ensure they are coherent and focused on meeting business objectives.
• Practice technical skills and perform experimentation at a high standard of safety, proficiency and efficiency and produce appropriate and timely written documentation.
• Contribute to the intellectual property strategy for the project that they are involved in.
• Provide detailed input to annual budgeting cycle.

Skills / Experience

Skills Requirement

Essential:

• Pro-E experience (ability to navigate models, rather than design).
• Knowledge of materials and their properties - Experience in plastics and moulding is essential.
• Ability to create concepts that meet design requirements.
• Transfer of design into manufacture.

Desirable:

• Statistical analysis / methods & practical application.
• Understand and apply DFMA Principles.
• Tolerance, stack-up and stress analysis.
• Requirements translation, Verification & Validation planning.
• Risk Mgmt tools for project and technical.

Person Fit:

• Self aware.
• Strong/Confident personality.
• Ready to take ownership and challenge others.
• Passionate about the subject matter - Focussed on personal development - An interest in staying on top of technology innovations.
• Customer focussed and comfortable with the "hands-off" vendor management approach to the development - BUT capable of being hands-on when required and close enough to the technology to remain credible at all times.

Education Requirements

Essential:

• B.Sc. or B. Engineering Degree plus relevant experience.

Desirable:

• Post-graduate qualification preferred.
• Masters degree plus relevant experience or doctorate.

Essential Experience and Key Competencies:

• Ability to apply theory and practice from other technical fields to the problems in hand.
• Ability to determine personal priorities to achieve short and long term objectives.
• Ability to integrate related technical activities.
• Ability to exert influence amongst peers within the relevant specialist field.
• Communicate clearly and effectively over a broad range of issues including the conveyance of abstract concepts as well as factual and/or technical information.
• Communicate difficult concepts to an audience having differing levels of knowledge and understanding.
• Experience in mass-product devices.
• Ability to work in teams.
• Deep technical knowledge.

Additional:

• Willing to travel.
• Flexibility (Communicating with U.S based colleagues out of hours).
• Comfortable working with remote team.
• Able to adapt to and manage change effectively.
• Proven ability to work autonomously.
• Ability to analyse and apply patent information to product design.

Benefits

Competitive Salary & Benefits