The purpose of the Mechanical Engineer III R&D (Sports Medicine) is to perform engineering duties in designing and developing medical devices. A successful individual must understand good design principles, engineering concepts, and product and feature testing in a lab environment. The individual must be able to prepare reports and protocols and perform routine engineering activities under supervision.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Plans and performs engineering assignments, including responsibility for engineering part of a major project, or performing project management for a minor project.
- Conducts each assignment based on broad team input and customer needs.
- Accepts engineering assignments that are broad in nature and require further definition usually requiring appreciable originality and ingenuity.
- Translates, develops and documents engineering specifications based on voice of the customer input.
- Evaluates, selects, and applies standard engineering techniques and procedures using judgment to solve difficult technical challenges, including product and feature testing in a lab environment.
- Ability to translate and/or derive customer requirements to engineering specifications.
- Ability to plan, conduct and supervise engineering assignments involving several smaller or lower priority projects or one major project.
- Works with cross-functional teams and under minimal supervision of an engineer manager or supervisor; has some latitude for un-reviewed action.
- Ability to write and advise others of the testing requirements.
- Ability to create and check design specifications.
- Ability to conduct root-cause investigation and recommend corrective action for design issues in existing products.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Biomedical, Mechanical, or Electrical Engineering
- 5 years related experience in R&D Engineering with a bachelor’s degree; 3 years with a master’s degree
Preferred Requirements:
- Prior Medical Device Experience
- Proficient in Computer Aided Design, Solid modelling, and office software applications.
- Proficiency in mechanical design in a highly regulated industry
Expected Travel 0-20%
This position is not eligible for employer-visa sponsorship.
