Product Development Engineering Manager

IDRecruitment are recruiting a Product Development Engineering Manager for aMedical Device manufacturing company located in Galway.

TheProduct Development Manager will lead a team of engineers and technicians to bring projects from Phase 1 to commercialization. Thesuccessful candidate will act as a technical leader for Product Developmentrelated improvements, as well as informing development assignments or trainingrelated to the PDP procedure.

The role will offer an attractive salary and benefits.

Duties include;

• Partners with ProgramManagers to execute the project plan to schedule, within budget constraints,meeting or exceeding customer requirements
• Partnerwith Manufacturing Engineering, NPI Engineering, or SMEs to develop innovativemanufacturing processes following lean manufacturing and DFM principles thatsatisfy customer and regulatory requirements, as well as vitality metrics (yield,cost, on-time delivery)
• Mentorand develop junior staff members on PDP overview, procedure, and best practices
• Mentorand develop junior staff members to lead their own projects or sub-portions oflarger projects
• Co-ordinateand participate in brainstorming and troubleshooting activities
• Co-ordinateand participate in design or phase reviews to support the advancement ofprojects from Phase 1 to commercialisation following the company PDP procedure
• Participatein design for manufacture/design for assembly activities
• Maintainsdetailed documentation throughout all project phases
  
• Participatein design and process verification and validation activities working withmanufacturing and quality personnel
• Workwith other company sites to support design and development activities
• Participatein customer meetings and visits
• Familiarwith medical device regulations FDA, QSR and ISO 13485
  

Skills and Qualifications:

• Degree in mechanicalengineering, biomedical engineering, polymer engineering or other equivalentdiscipline
• 10+years' work experience in medical device or similar industry is preferred
• Demonstratedability to develop medical devices from concept to commercialisation
• Experiencein design and manufacture of balloon catheters and delivery systems
• Familiarwith DFM/DFA principles
• Strongcommunication and presentation skills
• Strongproblem solving and analysis skills