Associate Quality Engineer - Medical Device (Entry/Junior Level)

Planet Pharma; Minneapolis (MN); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an entry-level Quality Engineer to join their Cardiac Surgery product team in Minneapolis. This exciting opportunity is perfect for recent graduates with a Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Science who are eager to apply their skills in a hands-on role within the medical device sector. You'll be responsible for conducting reliability studies, analyzing performance reports, and ensuring product reliability meets high standards. If you're passionate about quality engineering and looking to make a meaningful impact in the medical field, this position offers a fantastic starting point for your career.

Qualifications

• Recent Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or Science with 0+ years experience.
• Knowledge of medical devices is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Conducts technical reliability studies and evaluations of design concepts.
• Recommends design methods and statistical procedures for product reliability.

Skills

DFMEA

Statistical Process Control

Reliability Engineering

Design of Experiments (DOE)

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering

Bachelor’s Degree in Science

Job description

Associate Quality Engineer - Medical Device (Entry/Junior Level)

Our client, a leading Medical Device company in Minneapolis, is seeking an entry/junior level Quality Engineer for their Cardiac Surgery product team - the ideal candidate is local to the Minneapolis area with a recent Bachelor's Degree within an Engineering realm (and ideally some medical device knowledge/experience). See below for other details!

Please Note: This is an onsite role in Minneapolis - please only apply if you are either local to the area or plan to relocate there.

Main Duties:

• DFMEA review/updates
• Project document reviews as the Quality representative

Responsibilities:

• Develops, coordinates and conducts technical reliability studies and evaluations of engineering design concepts and design of experiments (DOE) constructs.
• Recommends design or test methods and statistical process control procedures for achieving required levels of product reliability.
• Completes risk analysis studies of new design and processes.
• Compiles and analyzes performance reports and process control statistics; investigates and analyzes relevant variables potentially affecting product and processes.
• Ensures that corrective measures meet acceptable reliability standards.
• Analyzes preliminary plans and develops reliability engineering programs to achieve company, customer and governmental agency reliability objectives.
• May develop mathematical models to identify units, batches or processes posing excessive failure risks.
• As necessary, proposes changes in design or formulation to improve system and/or process reliability.
• May determine units and/or batches requiring environmental testing and specifies minimum number of samples to obtain statistically valid data.
• Responsible for executing test method validation.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Science or technical field with 0+ years of work experience in Engineering and/or Quality.

Seniority level

• Entry level

Employment type

• Contract

Job function

• Quality Engineering

Industries

• Biotechnology Research and Medical Equipment Manufacturing