Product Engineer III
About Heraeus
Making displays foldable? Helping hearts beat with medical innovations? Or breathing new life into precious metals? As a family-owned global technology group we help our customers to always being one step ahead.
About Heraeus Medevio
Together we improve lives. At Heraeus Medevio, we bring lifesaving and life-changing medical devices to market through partnerships with medical device manufacturing companies. Backed by Heraeus Group, we are committed to the growth of our teams and organization by providing an open space for open minds.
Position Summary
The primary responsibility of the Product Engineer III is to lead design and development activities (concept generation, requirements generation, prototyping, 3D modeling, 2D prints creation, concept evaluation) on components, subassembly level projects, or medical device development programs. The Product Engineer III will be based out of the Fridley, MN location with the requirement to travel to the White Bear Lake as needed.
What You’ll Do Every Day:
- Create and/or support technical execution plan and deliverables with the project team.
- Execute design and development project-related activities throughout the product lifecycle.
- Support customer interaction on technical deliverables comfortably and confidently.
- Lead activities for concept generation and use good technical problem-solving skills based on customer interests, budgets, and market research.
- Conduct engineering analysis on designs, concepts and associated research.
- Create/facilitate documentation for requirements, design output, design verification, testing using Heraeus and/or customer’s QMS.
- Cookorate and execute effective cross-functional collaboration to move forward in the product development cycle.
- Communicate complex information concisely and clearly when working with customers, team members, and others.
- Mentor less experienced engineers through project execution.
- Identify solutions for project, product, and process challenges and implement solutions in coordination with cross-functional teams.
- Facilitate and make technical decisions on projects (i.e. vendor selection, decisions critical to quality on design, concept selection, etc.)
What We’re Looking For:
- Bachelor degree in engineering or related field strongly preferred; Other relevant postsecondary education, training and experience may be considered in lieu of a Bachelor’s Degree.
- Minimum 5 years of relevant experience required; 1 year of relevant experience may be substituted for a graduate degree and 3 years for a doctorate.
- Established knowledge of multiple functional engineering areas (i.e. product development, test, modeling, process, etc.).
- Design and development experience with catheters, guidewires, and/or delivery systems preferred.
- Demonstrates consistent understanding of the methodology for process/design selection.
- Able to communicate complex technical concepts.
- Shows creativity and ingenuity in applying engineering principles to find effective solutions to problems.
- Able to make data driven decisions utilizing statistical tools such as DOE, tolerance stack-up analysis, or Minitab.
- Strong problem-solving skills and actively work to coach others in this area.
- Able to informally or formally coach and mentor less experienced engineers.
- Able to communicate complex topics to customers.
- Demonstrated ability to establish cross-functional relationships to help drive results.
- Demonstrates desire for continuous improvement and understands need for change.
- Must be willing and able to travel between Fridley, MN and White Bear Lake, MN sites, as needed.