Principal Mechanical Engineer (New device development)

Your Responsibilities:

• Take on responsibility, actively promote the tasks in a matrix organized project with external development partners and focus on your own work packages.
• Participation in the definition of work packages, their estimation, planning, and implementation in a sprint-based agile environment, in close collaboration with product owners, scrum masters, architects, and developers.
• Conduct in all phases of mechanical development from feasibility studies through development, design review, unit testing, root cause analysis, bug fixing, and maintenance.
• Define and perform detailed engineering analysis, such as Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Finite Element Analysis (FEA), Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Tolerance Analysis, Simulations
• Execute technical reviews including different stakeholders from R&D, Operations, and Customer Support.
• Take over mission critical tasks and drive complex technical solution finding.

Your background:

• Bachelor Degree in Mechanical Engineering
• 8 years of relevant industry experience in MedTech
• Long-term professional experience in material evaluation and design for manufacturing, -servicability, -substainability at an expert level
• Long-term professional experience in injection molding design or plastic technologies at a superior level of proficiency, preferably from functional consumables with focus on cost-optimized larger series
• Profound experience in the development of complex medical mechatronic systems and implementation of specific components such as pumps, valves, actuators, sensors, temperature control elements and other parts
• Expertise in CAD for mechanical design (Solidworks is a MUST, combined with SAP), in compliance with ISO 8015 / Geometrical Product Specifications (GPS) for 2D drawings and 3D models
• Affinity for methodical and systematic approach in all phases of product development, as well as a solid understanding of physics and engineering fundamentals.
• Strong technical project management personality who can independently lead external development partners and suppliers.