My client is currently looking to recruit an exceptional lead mechanical engineer with extensive medical product development experience to join their successful and growing medical design and development technical team. First hand experience of working within a medical device development environment is essential.
You will be encouraged to take on project management responsibilities as well as technical leadership roles, liaising directly with their clients. However, should support or guidance be required, this is always available from team members.
Competitive salaries, together with other benefits such as discretionary bonus and pay schemes, are offered and regularly reviewed.
Listed below are the key attributes they will be looking for from potential candidates:
Mechanical Engineering degree: A broad-based mechanical engineering degree from a well-established university with a strong engineering reputation. A 1st or Upper 2nd degree is essential (or equivalent qualification).
Good, wide-ranging technical background: Your university course should have covered a range of engineering disciplines – structures, mechanics, dynamics, fluids, thermodynamics, etc. Your subsequent industrial experience should involve the practical application of as many of these theoretical skills as possible, together with the addition of further skills and knowledge through formal training courses and on the job experience.
Experience: Candidates should have worked in a medical product design environment playing a key technical engineering role in the development team. They should have been involved in taking at least one product through the complete design process. Experience is required of a range of product types, manufacturing processes and materials that builds on the diversity of your technical training.
Able to learn new skills and market areas: Candidates should be able to demonstrate an ability to assimilate new knowledge and information, and should be able to learn and use new skills.
Good, confident communicator: Candidates must have good communication skills, both verbal and written. You will need to communicate confidently and persuasively, both in a formal presentation situation, but also in less formal client and supplier liaison situations. Written reports and other documents will also need to be produced accurately and in a well-presented form.
Creative problem-solving: Candidates should be able to provide examples of novel solutions they have generated that are cheaper, more efficient, smaller, more functional, etc. than the competition. They should be prepared to discuss their approach to creative thinking.
Project management skills: Successful candidates will be expected to manage significant development projects in parallel with their technical work. This will involve selecting and organising the team, managing budgets and timescales, liaising with and presenting to the client.
Team leader and member: Most projects are run using dedicated teams. You must be able to shape, enthuse and lead a project team and work co-operatively with staff outside the immediate team.
Technical leader: You will be expected to assume responsibility for your technical design work and to advise and support the more junior members of your project teams. You will also be called upon periodically to provide technical input into our formal design checking procedures.
