R&D Manager

R&D Manager

Our client, a high potential medical device start up, is looking for an R&D Manager to join their team. Reporting to the CEO, the R&D Manager will lead and nurture an engineering team, promote a culture of excellence and technical proficiency, and spearhead strategic projects and initiatives. The R&D Manager will work closely with senior management and stakeholders to deliver product solutions.

Role/Responsibilities:

• Lead high complexity projects and initiatives within the business unit, plan, budget, and meet project goals, ensuring adequate staffing.
• Structure and resource the R&D team to develop technologies that ensure business success.
• Mentor, coach, and support career development plans for direct reports; recruit and hire top performing talent and prioritize team development.
• Plan projects, report progress, and maintain all necessary documentation.
• Demonstrate a strategic mindset and the ability to plan and execute across the business to achieve objectives.
• Collaborate with the R&D leadership team to define priorities and contribute to the innovation roadmap.
• Maintain effective communication channels within management and engineering teams.
• Implement process improvements that leverage team talent to increase performance and productivity.
• Oversee projects throughout all development stages, ensuring milestones are met within specified timelines.
• Foster innovation and creativity within the team through mentorship, coaching, and development opportunities.

Skills/Experience:

• Honours Bachelor's Degree in an Engineering or related discipline.
• At least 5 years of managerial experience leading R&D teams for new product development.
• Support and positive attributes within a respectful, supportive, goal oriented, scientific, and diverse culture.
• Experience in building teams that deliver results, with a strong understanding of team dynamics.
• Experience in developing medical devices that require complex processes and assembly techniques, with proven ability to deliver results in this setting.
• Strong initiative and follow through in executing project responsibilities, overcoming obstacles, balancing multiple priorities, with technical and/or project leadership experience.
• Experience preparing project proposals, development plans, detailed schedules, product design input requirements, and design verification test plans.
• Experience in medical device design principles, material selection, design concept validation, and test method development.
• Experience working under medical device design controls, with knowledge of design verification/validation, design/process FMEAs.
• Experience with medical device regulations including GMP, QSR, and ISO quality requirements.
• Proficiency with MS Office suite.

Contact Information

For further information please contact James Cassidy at or call .