Senior Design Engineer & Technical Lead — Hybrid

SHL Group; Stockholms kommun; Hybrid; SEK 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working policy

Flexible hours

Global development opportunities

Job summary

SHL Medical is seeking a Senior Design Engineer - Technical Lead to shape the future of its autoinjector platform technologies. You will lead complex mechanical design initiatives, guide engineering decisions, and mentor engineers to deliver robust solutions that are compliant, scalable, and competitive.

You will collaborate with Manufacturing, Quality, Regulatory, Human Factors, and Testing teams to ensure product performance, reliability, and manufacturability across lifecycle activities,

Qualifications

• Senior Design Engineer for injection molding-based products with 5+ years’ relevant experience in medical industry or strongly regulated industry.
• Excellent skills in CAD (Solidworks), simulation software, and statistical analysis.
• Strong DFx experience (Design for Testing, Manufacturing, Assembly, Quality, Cost, Sustainability) and willingness to drive the design for optimum solutions in consideration of all stakeholder needs.
• Strong willingness to evaluate, apply and champion modern tools and methods for design excellence such as Six Sigma and Systems Engineering concepts.
• Experienced to lead designers to realize complex design solutions.
• Fluency in English

Responsibilities

• Lead the mechanical design and technical development of one of SHL Medical’s autoinjector platforms, ensuring solutions meet performance, quality, manufacturability, sustainability, and cost requirements.
• Provide technical leadership across platform development and lifecycle management activities, guiding engineering decisions and driving design excellence.
• Mentor and support Design Engineers, fostering a collaborative engineering culture and enabling the delivery of robust, scalable platform solutions.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives by evaluating product, manufacturing, and market feedback to enhance device performance, reliability, safety, and competitiveness.
• Lead feasibility studies, engineering evaluations, simulations, and testing activities to assess new technologies and validate design concepts.
• Identify technical risks and opportunities, using data-driven analysis and sound engineering judgement to develop effective solutions and mitigation strategies.
• Ensure compliance with applicable regulatory requirements, industry standards, and quality processes, including design controls, risk management, verification, validation, and change management activities.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including Manufacturing, Quality, Regulatory Affairs, Human Factors, Testing, and other engineering disciplines to deliver platform objectives.
• Act as a subject matter expert for the platform, influencing technical strategy and partnering with internal and customer-facing stakeholders to achieve successful product outcomes.
• Maintain platform design documentation and support root cause investigations, product updates, and lifecycle activities in a regulated environment.

Skills

Solidworks CAD

Simulation software

Statistical analysis

DFx

Six Sigma

Systems Engineering

Lead designers

English fluency

Tools

Solidworks

3D/2D CAD modelling

FMEA

FTA

FEA simulations

Job description

SHL Medical is seeking a Senior Design Engineer - Technical Lead to shape the future of its autoinjector platform technologies. You will lead complex mechanical design initiatives, guide engineering decisions, and mentor engineers to deliver robust solutions that are compliant, scalable, and competitive.

You will collaborate with Manufacturing, Quality, Regulatory, Human Factors, and Testing teams to ensure product performance, reliability, and manufacturability across lifecycle activities,