Medical Sector Manager (Engineer)

DCA Design International; Warwick; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the medical design sector is seeking outstanding engineers to join their dynamic team. You will lead complex projects, manage budgets, and work closely with multidisciplinary teams to create innovative medical products that improve lives. This role offers the chance to work with world-class brands and contribute to meaningful projects while enjoying competitive salaries and a supportive work environment.

Benefits

Competitive salaries with paid overtime

Extra days of holiday for long service

37-hour working week with half day on Fridays

Substantial annual discretionary profit-related bonus

Private health insurance subject to seniority

Qualifications

• Experience delivering successful medical development projects.
• Ability to manage financial and commercial aspects of projects.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement medical sector marketing plans.
• Manage diverse medical product development projects.

Skills

Creative problem-solving

Good verbal and written communication

Education

1st or Upper 2nd degree in mechanical, mechatronics or design engineering

Tools

Computer Aided Engineering (CAE)

Job description

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We are seeing a period of exceptional growth in our medical and scientific sector team at the moment in response to a wide range of exciting long-term project requests.

As a result, we are able to offer exciting career opportunities for outstanding engineers with extensive medical product development and project management experience as part of our growing, dynamic medical and scientific sector team.

You will be working alongside other exceptional individuals to help develop and implement our medical and scientific sector marketing plan. This will involve pitching to potential clients, creating detailed costed proposals and nurturing long-term relationships with key strategic clients. You will be expected to plan and manage a diverse range of exciting and complex medical product development projects against challenging timescales and budgets, while also taking on the technical lead role on these projects.

We operate in multi-functional project teams and as a Sector Manager in our medical and scientific sector you will need to work closely with designers, mechanical, electronics and software engineers and other skill teams to integrate the visual and functional aspects of medical products and create class-leading designs that deliver real benefits to their users.

Most of the products we design go to market and are highly visible. It’s always very rewarding to see the products you have helped design delivering success for our clients and improving people’s lives.

What we expect

• Considerable experience of delivering successful medical development projects within an ISO 13485 quality framework.
• Ideally, you will have experience of working within a consultancy environment, balancing quality, cost, timescale and risk targets.
• Ability to plan, quote and manage the financial and commercial aspects of medical product development projects, as well as leading the technical work. This will involve selecting and organising the team, managing budgets and timescales, and working closely with the client’s project team.
• Able to guide, support and check the work of your multi-disciplinary project team.
• Creative problem-solving, generating innovative solutions to complex engineering problems.
• Good verbal and written communication skills with clients, suppliers and colleagues.
• Travel to medical industry events (Including International events) such as trade shows, seminars, conferences to represent DCA.
• Supporting the development and delivery of the medical and scientific sector marketing initiatives, including writing articles and delivering presentations.
• Establishing and building strong, long-term relationships with our strategic clients.
• Enthusiastic, hardworking and proud of your work. People at DCA are passionate about the creation and delivery of successful new products.
• Attention to detail and a drive to achieve excellence.

What you need

• A 1st or Upper 2nd degree in mechanical, mechatronics or design engineering from a university with a strong engineering reputation, or an equivalent technical qualification.
• Have experience working in a medical product design or development environment, applying Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) tools and computational techniques to deliver medical and scientific product solutions, utilising a wide range of manufacturing processes and materials.
• A track record of delivering exceptional results across a range of medical projects.
• A track record of successfully managing multi-disciplinary medical projects and client relations.
• For this role, we will expect you to work in our Warwick studios, so you must be prepared to commute or relocate and you must be eligible to work in the UK.
• Knowledge of and experience in high-volume manufacturing processes such as injection moulding.
• To lead by example in setting standards with a “can-do” attitude that inspires colleagues and clients.

What we offer

• The opportunity to work collaboratively with world-leading medical product development experts, managing exciting design and development projects with global impact, often seeing projects through from the initial exploratory front end to launch.
• The chance to lead world-class teams to create novel IP, reduce cost and environmental impact, enhance user ergonomics and usability, improve manufacturability and functional performance to create class-leading medical and scientific products.
• The opportunity to work with some of the world’s most exciting and innovative medical and scientific brands and companies.
• Formal training and on-the-job career development opportunities, coordinated through our mentoring and reviewing processes.
• We offer competitive salaries with paid overtime.
• Extra days of holiday for long service up to 32 days.
• A 37-hour working week with a half day on Fridays, great for work-life balance, especially if you are getting away for the weekend.
• A substantial annual discretionary profit-related bonus.
• 2 additional bonuses paid in July and December, totalling 3% of base pay.
• Contributory pension scheme.
• Our Warwick campus with its town centre location, is convenient for grabbing a coffee and a sandwich during the day, and a drink or a meal after work.
• Subsidised sports and social activities. Football, badminton, climbing, board and card gaming and running groups meet weekly, with go-karting, theatre trips, escape rooms and cycling events organised throughout the year.
• Family-friendly summer party at a local stately house and Christmas party for staff and partners held in the stunning state rooms of Warwick Castle.
• Cycle to work and childcare schemes.
• Annual parking permit for a public car park in Warwick.
• Private health insurance subject to seniority and length of service.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Management

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