Principal Mechanical Design Engineer at Medtronic in Littleton, Massachusetts

Job Description:

Careers that Change Lives

This position guides the successful completion of major programs and may function in a project leadership role. Applies technical expertise toward developing world class medical systems for image guided surgery. Develops technical solutions to complex problems that require use of ingenuity and creativity. Works with cross-functional teams on the design phase, and verification and validation phase of key projects.

The O-armTM system is an intraoperative 2D/3D imaging system that is designed to meet the workflow demands of the surgical environment. It can be used in variety of procedures including spine, cranial, and orthopedics.

To view more product details please view the link below:

https://www.medtronic.com/us-en/healthcare-professionals/products/neurological/surgical-imaging-systems/o-arm.html

Join a Culture of Collaboration and Innovation

A Day in the Life

• Technical Leadership role in an R&D product development environment to develop our robotic guided imaging products. Serves as a technical expert in cross-functional team developing mechanical designs (including design review facilitation).
• Responsible for mechanical designs that meet both internal and external customer requirements and are optimized for production, reliability and cost. Perform design analysis and risk analyses.
• Responsible for all development phases: writing requirements, architecture documents, design implementation, writing test plans, execute tests and write verification reports.
• Coordinate system level testing and validation efforts
• Interface with outside vendors as needed to communicate design requirements and databases to ensure the accuracy of parts and subsystem manufacturing by vendors.
• Adhere to Medtronic Standard Operating Procedures.
• Leads troubleshooting and problem solving efforts related to the development projects. Supports decisions through engineering and analysis data.
• Participates in the evaluation of new technology, new products, new materials, and their impact on the business.
• Implements and maintains the project plans for new technology programs.
• Mentors and provides technical guidance as required.
• Ensures appropriate documentation is maintained and completed for new technology programs, ensuring that information is transferred to product line specific areas during commercialization phase.
• Finds and evaluates new ideas and new technologies.
• Works with product areas to outline testing of new products and conducts or coordinates product evaluation.
• Assist with activities relating to design, testing and evaluation of system elements.
• Give direction to engineers and drafters, clearly communicate their roles and tasks.
• Comply with regulatory requirements, including company design control procedures
• Ensure business' quality policy/system is planned, understood, implemented and maintained in business.
• Provides information to senior management
• Serves as a representative as a prime technical contact and interacts with senior internal/external personnel on significant technical matters.
• All activities must be performed in compliance with the Quality System
• Performs duties in compliance with environmental, health and safety related site rules, policies or governmental regulations
• All other duties as assigned.
• Travel requirement: Less than 10%

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• Bachelors degree in a technically related flied required
• Minimum of 7 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years relevant experience

Nice to Have

• Mechanical or equivalent 5+ years of experience in medical device mechanical engineering or other regulated industries required
• Experience in Mechanical design of motion systems; familiarity with transmissions such as belt drives, ball screws, bearing selection, and motor selection including stepper motors and DC servo motors.
• Experience with system dynamics modeling, servo-systems design and analysis of motion systems. Familiarity with Matlab/Simulink a plus.
• Experience with x-ray imaging systems a plus
• Experience with Solidworks simulation for static, dynamic, and thermal analyses
• Solid working knowledge of regulatory requirements for medical product development, including knowledge of federal and international regulations, such as FDA QSR, IEC 60601, ISO: 13485, 14971, 62304, and 13485, Medical Device Directive or other regulating agencies is required.
• Understanding of medical device's development methodologies and medical device's lifecycle, or other heavily regulated device's lifecycle
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Programs: Outlook, Excel, and project scheduling such as Microsoft Project is desirable.
• Interpersonal, written communications, time management, and organizational skills.

Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology, therapies and services can do to help alleviate pain, restore health and extend life. We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be.

We want to accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations - but we will only succeed with the right people on our team. Let's work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients' lives. Help us shape the future.

Physical Job Requirements

The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role. (ADA-United States of America)

Learn more about our benefits @ benefits.medtronic.com

Additional Information

• Posting Date: Oct 21, 2021
• Travel: No