Mechanical Test Engineer - Medical Devices - Cambridge)

Newton Colmore Consulting; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading medical devices company in Cambridge seeks an experienced Mechanical Test Engineer to join their R&D testing team. The role involves building prototypes and testing new products, ensuring reliable performance from concept to production. Ideal candidates will have experience in mechanical testing and programming knowledge, offering a chance to impact medical technology innovations.

Benefits

Performance bonuses

Free lunches

Free breakfasts

Competitive pension plan

Qualifications

• Experience with mechanical testing on physical products.
• Knowledge of force testing equipment.
• Basic Python programming experience or working knowledge of LabView.

Responsibilities

• Building prototypes and running experiments to gather performance data.
• Creating bespoke prototypes and testing programs for new products.
• Ensuring successful transition from concept to verification and manufacturing.

Skills

Mechanical testing

LabView

Python

Problem-solving

Job description

A growing medical devices company in Cambridge are searching for an experienced research and development test engineer to join their in-house testing team.

As a Mechanical Test Engineer within this organisation, you will be utilising your experience to determine the performance and reliability of brand-new physical products within the medical devices sector.

You will be charged with building prototypes and designing and running experiments to gather performance data on new products as well as created novel test methods and protocols. You will be working closely with the laboratory manager to help push the team forward with new ideas.

It will be your role to ensure that exciting new breakthrough products can make the successful transition from initial concept to verification and manufacturing. This will be done by creating bespoke prototypes and testing programmes which will provide detailed data and insights that can be translated into real-world improvements.

To be considered for this role, we are ideally looking for a candidate who has the following;

* Experience of mechanical testing on physical products with knowledge of force testing equipment.

* Working knowledge of LabView or basic python programming experience.

* A methodical and structured approach to solving problems

The company are offering tailored packages for the right engineer which includes a series of benefits including performance bonuses, free lunches and breakfasts and competitive pension plan.

If you would like to find out more about this opportunity, make an application now and one of our team will be in touch to discuss it further.

Newton Colmore Consulting is a highly specialist recruitment consultancy operating within the Medical Devices, Scientific Engineering, Scientific Software, Robotics, Science, Electronics Design, New Product Design, Human Factors, Regulatory Affairs, Quality Assurance and Field Service Engineering sectors throughout Europe and the US.