Senior Engineer - Catheter Product Development Engineering

Senior Engineer - Catheter Product Development Engineering

Permanent 

About Heraeus

Making displays foldable? Helping hearts beat with medical innovations? Or breathing new life into precious metals? As a family-owned global technology group we help our customers to always being one step ahead.

About Heraeus Medevio

Together we improve lives. At Heraeus Medevio, we bring lifesaving and life-changing medical devices to market through partnerships with medical device manufacturing companies. Backed by Heraeus Group, we are committed to the growth of our teams and organization by providing an open space for open minds.

To reach our vision of improving 100 million lives every year, we foster a culture of curiosity that thrives on challenge, continuous learning, growth, and the opportunity to try new things. With sites in the United States, European Union, and Asia, and over 2,200 employees worldwide, together, we will meet tomorrow's challenges today.

Position Summary 

The Senior Engineer – Catheter Product Development Engineering will primarily be responsible to lead design and development activities (concept generation, requirements generation, prototyping, 3D modeling, 2D prints creation, concept evaluation) on complete medical device development programs. The optimal candidate would have experience leading complex catheter development projects from concept to high volume production.

We are open to hiring at a Senior or Principal Engineer level, and can be based out of our Fridley, MN location. 

What You’ll Do Every Day:

• Create technical execution plan and deliverables with the project manager.
• Lead and execute design and development project-related activities within the internal team.
• Lead customer interaction on technical deliverables comfortably and confidently.
• Lead activities for concept generation with strong technical problem-solving skills.
• Mentor engineers on the team to conduct engineering analysis on designs, concepts, and the associated research.
• Lead and monitor documentation practices for requirements, design output, design verification, and testing using Heraeus and/or customer’s QMS.
• Communicate complex information concisely and clearly to all levels of collaborators, including customers, team members, and others.
• Mentor less experienced engineers throughout project execution.
• Facilitate and make technical decisions on projects (i.e. vendor selection, critical to quality on the design, concept selection, etc.).
• Other duties assigned as required.

What We’re Looking For:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related technical field required; Master’s degree in Engineering or related technical field helpful.
• Minimum 8 years of relevant work experience required; 1 year of relevant experience may be substituted for a graduate degree or 3 years for a doctorate, medical device development experience required.
• Demonstrated expertise with catheter product development.
• Anatomical knowledge of the vasculature and clinical knowledge of coronary/ peripheral/ neurological procedures is helpful.
• Well established knowledge of multiple engineering functional areas (i.e. product development, test, modeling, process, etc.).
• Independently applies knowledge of the methodology for process/design selection.
• Able to communicate complex technical concepts to broad audiences.
• Consistently demonstrates creativity in applying engineering principles to solve complex problems.
• Able to make data driven decisions utilizing statistical tools such as DOE, tolerance stack-up analysis, or Minitab.
• Strong independent problem-solving skills and actively works to coach others in this area.
• Must be willing and able to travel up to 10%, including some international travel.  Travel between the Fridley and White Bear Lake, Minnesota sites required as needed.
• Proficient with new technology development.
• Capable of creating a plan to solve complex technical problems and lead others to resolution.
• Actively, informally or formally coaches and mentors less experienced engineers.
• Able to communicate complex topics to customers.
• Has established cross-functional relationships and is able to influence to drive results.
• Clearly communicates need for continuous improvement and champions change within the organization.

Medevio is committed to providing competitive total compensation and benefits packages. The expected hiring range for this position is between $115,000 and $155,000 based upon a full-time schedule and level of a position hired. This is a good faith estimate on the applicable range. Base salaries are determined by taking a variety of factors in account, including, but not limited to, candidate qualifications, geographic locations, market conditions and internal equity. This position is bonus eligible, with a target bonus of 10-15% depending on level of position hired. Our total compensation package includes eligibility for comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, a 401(k) plan with company match, education reimbursement, paid parental leave and paid time off.