Senior Product Design Verification Engineer - Hybrid

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Job Description:

Senior Product Design Verification Engineer - Hybrid (New Health Care Company)

3M Health Care is now Solventum

At Solventum, we enable better, smarter, safer healthcare to improve lives. As a new company with a long legacy of creating breakthrough solutions for our customers’ toughest challenges, we pioneer game-changing innovations at the intersection of health, material and data science that change patients' lives for the better while enabling healthcare professionals to perform at their best. Because people, and their wellbeing, are at the heart of every scientific advancement we pursue.

We partner closely with the brightest minds in healthcare to ensure that every solution we create melds the latest technology with compassion and empathy. Because at Solventum, we never stop solving for you.

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

The Senior Product Design Verification Engineer is responsible to plan and execute design verification engineering projects and reliability activities to support the development of safe and reliable medical devices. Develop and validate test methods, write protocols based on defined requirements, and provide clear and concise test reports. Perform data analysis activities including tolerance intervals, Ppk, data reduction, and gage repeatability and reproducibility. Interact collaboratively with a wide range of disciplines to create innovative products in the challenging and rewarding medical device industry. 

As a Senior Product Design Verification Engineer, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative and diverse people around the world.

Here, you will make an impact by: 

• Partnering with the Design Team and Quality to identify/ explore areas of reliability, risk, and sampling.
• Generate design verification project plans to test design requirements.
• Provide the reliability function for design verification by acting as reliability engineering lead on assigned projects with accountability to execute assigned activities.
• Apply design for reliability (DFR) concepts (DFMEA, HALT, FTA, etc.) during the product development process to ensure that designs are intrinsically reliable.
• Develop test strategies to determine the best means of providing design verification and reliability (e.g. success testing, test to failure, alarm conditions, etc.).
• Use engineering tools such as design of experiments, gage repeatability and reproducibility, fabrication of unique test fixtures, and test automation to develop test methods.
• Validate test methods using equipment qualification, software validation, and measurement analysis. Including design and fabrication of specialty test fixtures.
• Develop and qualify new test protocols, ensuring that test objectives are effectively incorporated.
• Create custom control, user interface, and data collections programs using LabView.
• Coordinate assigned projects resources (technical and equipment) with the objective of assuring data integrity and maximizing test throughput efficiency.
• Work with lab technicians to assemble, test, and troubleshoot mechanical, electronic, electromechanical, and pneumatic test set-ups and data acquisition system.
• Analyze test data for conformance to pre-determined acceptance criteria and prepare formal reports and results summaries.
• Assist engineering and quality teams in failure investigations/ root cause analysis for problems identified during lab testing and field issues.
• Use technical writing methodology in all engineering documents (e.g. plans, protocols, investigations, reports) and follow templates provided.
• Assist engineers in the compilation and analysis of basic reliability data from field studies.

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