Design Engineer - Customer Projects - Medical Devices

Pioneering trusted medical solutions to improve the lives we touch: Convatec is a global medical products and technologies company, focused on solutions for the management of chronic conditions, with leading positions in Infusion care, advanced wound care, ostomy care, and continence care. With around 10.000 colleagues, we provide our products and services in almost 100 countries, united by a promise to be forever caring. Our solutions provide a range of benefits, from infection prevention and protection of at-risk skin to improved patient outcomes and reduced care costs. Group revenues in 2022 were over $2 billion. The company is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index (LSE:CTEC). To learn more about Convatec, please visit http://www.convatecgroup.com

At Convatec, Infusion Care, we are transforming our business for the better. Better products. Better ways of working. And better ways of delivering for our customers and each other. Join us on this transformative journey as a Mechanical Design Engineer and help shape the future of the company and our patients.

We are guided by our five core values that shape the way we work, every day: Improve Care, Deliver Results, Grow Together, Own It, and Do What's Right.

 

About the role and your key responsibilities 

In this role, you will be engaged with multiple sustainable engineering projects. You will be responsible for all design-related improvements and changes in close collaboration with key project stakeholders, focusing on design manufacturability, robustness, time-to-market, product reliability, and solid documentation. 

You will be part of a dynamic and ambitious team of 15 in Denmark and Mexico executing Sustainable Engineering projects, and you will report to the Mechanical Manager, as you organisationally will be a part of the Mechanical Design department which counts 15 highly dedicated and skilled design engineers and specialists. We have informal communication, and a clear team-spirit in a mutual technical and personal supporting culture, driven by key elements like diversity, equity, and inclusion. 

Main responsibilities in this role include - but is not limited to: 

• Create and document design outputs, fulfilling usability, safety, and performance requirements. 

• Perform design optimizations to injection molded components.  

• Support mould tool qualification activities (measurement analysis, reporting) 

• Integrate design robustness and manufacturability. 

• Build documentation supporting regulatory and company requirements. 

• Support to product and documentation maintenance on legacy products 

You will be an important player in all stages of product improvement and product maintenance primarily driven by customer needs. In addition, you will play an important role until the change is implemented in the production.  

About you

We are looking for a Design Engineer, who brings a solid mechanical engineering and design foundation and a breadth of knowledge and experience in common processing technologies, where direct experience with design for mechanisms, high-volume polymer injection moulding, and large-scale production using fully automated and semiautomated assembly lines is preferred. You are dedicated to continuously ensuring regulatory compliance, product safety and performance, and manufacturing efficacy. 

You preferably have experience with Design for Manufacturing, mechatronics, assembly methods, polymer characteristics and properties, polymer extrusion, ultrasonic welding, heat-staking, laser cutting, and other relevant technical areas of knowledge. 

In addition, you are pragmatic and always practicing risk-based thinking, focused on sustainable solutions, perform good documentation practices, and see the value in creating thorough documentation. 

To be truly successful in this position you thrive in an international environment that is characterized by cross-disciplinary and cross-regional teamwork, as you will work in close collaboration with production, procurement, mould, automation, QA/QC, and Regulatory Affairs in typically Denmark and Mexico organized in a matrix organisation. You are pragmatic and operate with a sense of urgency to meet your deadlines. 

You enjoy a busy working day and can progress and finalise several and various tasks in parallel, thriving with evolving and changes. 

Qualification & Experience 

• You hold an MSc or BSc in mechanical engineering or similar experience. 

• Preferably 3 or more years of relevant experience in medical device product development (Class II) or similar 

• Solidworks CAD software and simulation software 

• Tolerance stack-up analysis, DFA/DFM 

• Advanced polymer materials insight is an advantage.