Principal R & D Engineer - Sustaining

Additional Location(s): US-MN-Maple Grove

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At Boston Scientific, we’ll give you the opportunity to harness all that’s within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we’ll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you’ll be supported in progressing – whatever your ambitions.           

About this role:

As a Principal R&D Engineer, you will be a member of the Sustaining R&D team within Boston Scientific’s Urology Division. This division supports and sustains design and technologies for treating a wide range of urology-based issues, in addition to supporting evolving regulatory and standard requirements around product design.

In this role, you will lead cross-functional teams to develop/modify products, materials, processes, or equipment for projects of moderate and difficult complexity.  Under limited supervision/guidance, you will compile, analyze, and report operational, test, and research data to establish performance standards for newly designed or modified products, processes, and materials.  You will perform design change analysis to determine impact to products’ design history file and ensure deliverables needed to support design changes are executed by you or cross-functional team members to achieve project goals.  Additionally, you will develop strategies to improve the overall technical expertise of the Urology Sustaining R&D group.  A successful candidate will excel in a collaborative environment, possess strong technical skills in design elements and interactions, and demonstrate a proven ability to influence projects.

 

This position is currently based at our Minnetonka, MN site. Please note that the role may relocate to our Maple Grove, MN site in the future. Candidates must be willing and able to transition to the new location if required. Relocation assistance is not available for this position at this time.

 

Boston Scientific will not offer sponsorship or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position at this time.

 

Your responsibilities will include:  

• Successfully lead project teams typically including the following activities: innovative design development, complex design modification assessment, experiment design and execution, establishment of specifications and drawings, test of materials/products, research investigations, team report-outs, and cross-functional collaboration to drive all areas of project execution based on design controls knowledge and other impacted areas
• Provide design engineering for assigned Sustaining projects
• Serve as a R&D technical lead within a project
• Work independently to plan and schedule own activities necessary to communicate and meet timelines
• Design and coordinate engineering tests, experiments, and test equipment for R&D purposes and production support
• Lead troubleshooting and problem-solving on complex product/process issues related to design, materials or process
• Summarize, analyze and draw conclusions/recommendations from test results
• Prepare documentation and presentations to communicate complex results and topics to technical community
• Effectively communicate and present project status and technical details to all management levels
• Participate in budgeting and planning processes by providing input relating to Urology project portfolio
• Train, provide work direction, and/or mentor lab technicians or junior engineers
• Work cross-functionally with manager, project management, quality, process development, manufacturing, regulatory, clinical and marketing personnel to ensure project success
• Demonstrate strong design control knowledge and the Product Life Cycle through generation of high-quality deliverables

 

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering – Biomedical or Mechanical engineering preferred
• 8+ years of work experience in engineering
• 5+ years of experience in medical device product development or sustaining projects
• Experience with design change assessment or impact analysis for regulated products
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams/projects and influence outcomes without formal authority
• Experience or training in Problem Solving Processes
• Experience developing strategies or working on initiatives that result in long-term group improvements or benefits
• Strong understanding of design controls and risk management within the medic