Senior Product Development Engineer
About Heraeus
Make displays foldable. Help hearts beat with medical innovations. Or breathe new life into precious metals. As a family-owned global technology group, we help our customers to always be 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 Senior Product Development Engineer will be to lead design and development activities (concept generation, requirements generation, prototyping, 3D modeling, 2D prints creation, concept evaluation) on complex medical device development programs.
This position will be based out of the Fridley, MN location, with travel to the White Bear Lake, MN site to support project needs.
What You’ll Do Every Day:
- Create technical execution plan and deliverables with the project team.
- Lead and execute design and development project-related activities throughout the product lifecycle.
- Lead customer interaction on technical deliverables comfortably and confidently.
- Lead activities for concept generation with strong technical problem-solving skills based on customer interests, budgets, and market research.
- Mentor engineers on the team to conduct engineering analysis on designs, concepts, and the associated research.
- Create and/or lead and monitor documentation practices for requirements, design output, design verification, and testing using Heraeus and/or customer’s QMS.
- Cook up and execute effective cross-functional collaboration to move forward in the product development cycle.
- Communicate complex information concisely and clearly to all levels of collaborators, including customers, team members, and others.
- Mentor less experienced engineers throughout project execution.
- Identify solutions for complex 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, critical to quality on the design, concept selection, etc.)
What We’re Looking For:
- Bachelor degree in engineering or related technical field; Master’s degree in engineering or related technical field preferred.
- Minimum 8 years of relevant work experience; 1 year of relevant experience may be substituted for a graduate degree or 3 years for a doctorate.
- Well established knowledge of multiple engineering functional areas (i.e. product development, testing, modeling, process, etc.).
- Catheter design and development experience preferred.
- Independently applies knowledge of the methodology for process/design selection.
- Able to communicate complex technical concepts to broad audiences.
- Consistently demonstrates creativity and ingenuity in applying engineering principles to solve complex problems.
- Able to make data driven decisions utilizing statistical tools such as DOE, tolerance stack-up analysis, or Minitab.
- Strong independent problem-solving skills and actively working to coach others in this area.
- Proficient with new technology development.
- Capable of creating a plan to solve complex technical problems and lead others to resolutions.
- Actively, informally or formally coaches and mentors less experienced engineers.
- Able to communicate complex topics to customers.
- Has established cross-functional relationships and is able to influence to drive results.
- Clearly communicates need for continuous improvement and champions change within the organization.
- Must be willing and able to travel between White Bear Lake, MN and Fridley, MN sites, as needed.