Medtronic is an equal opportunities employer.

Duties & Responsibilities:

An experienced design engineer, will focus primarily on novel product design and development.  The role includes the following:

• work from basic clinical need to device concept to prototype
• interface with physicians and distil their needs into product requirements and concepts
• may lead a small design team and develop design development path to achieve project goals,  alternatively may work largely alone to develop concepts and prototypes
• will apply knowledge of materials and processes to come up with working designs
• may be required to progress a project from concept phase into commercialization phase and play a key role on the product / process / engineering / leadership fronts
• will need to interface effectively with team members and other staff, both in plant and abroad, to achieve goals.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Minimum 5 years experience with relevant qualification
• Qualified to degree level in engineering, science or related discipline
• Medical device development experience, ideally in interventional vascular devices
• Strong design skills
• Proven track record in innovative product design, development and implementation
• Experience interfacing with physicians and reducing feedback to device concepts
• Project leadership skills and experience desirable
• Ability to work across full spectrum of product development process
• Experience of medical device design procedures
• Broad biomedical materials and processing knowledge
• Experience in the design and application of minimally invasive delivery systems
• Good team skills with a high level of enthusiasm and motivation.

Skills and Competencies:

• Innovation: Contributes innovative ideas that lead to positive business results encouraging and adopting new ways of looking at problems, processes and solutions.
• Customer focus: Meets customer requirements based on an accurate understanding of their needs and expectations; acts on customer feedback to improve service.
• Judgement: Ability to make timely and sound decisions based on thorough consideration of relevant information and the pros and cons of alternatives
• Quality Orientation: Consistently complies with product/service quality standards; contributes to process improvement through the use of quality tools and measurements; consistently attends to details to ensure accurate, high quality work products.

 If you feel you meet the necessary requirements for the above role and would like to submit your application, please CLICK HERE.