Senior R&D Engineer

Expected Travel: Up to 10%

Requisition ID: 12815

About Teleflex Incorporated

As a global provider of medical technologies, Teleflex is driven by our purpose to improve the health and quality of people’s lives. Through our vision to become the most trusted partner in healthcare, we offer a diverse portfolio with solutions in the therapy areas of anesthesia, emergency medicine, interventional cardiology and radiology, surgical, vascular access, and urology. We believe that the potential of great people, purpose-driven innovation, and world-class products can shape the future direction of healthcare. 
 
Teleflex is the home of Arrow™, Barrigel™, Deknatel™, LMA™, Pilling™, QuikClot™, Rüsch™, UroLift™ and Weck™ – trusted brands united by a common sense of purpose.
 
At Teleflex, we are empowering the future of healthcare.  For more information, please visit teleflex.com.

OEM – Teleflex Medical OEM is a leading global provider of product development and production services for medical device manufacturers. We set ourselves apart with deep expertise, decades of experience, a dedication to design for manufacturability, and extensive, in-house capabilities, which include engineering, regulatory services, material selection and formulation, prototyping, manufacturing, assembly and packaging. We deliver industry-changing innovations and next-generation solutions for extrusions; diagnostic and interventional catheters; balloons and balloon catheters; sheath/dilator sets; specialty sutures, braids and fibers; and bioabsorbable sutures, yarns and resins. Join a dynamic, growing team that offers healthcare providers an array of medical technology solutions that make a difference in patients’ lives.

Position Summary

This position's responsibility is for managing and developing new products, while interfacing customers, vendors, and internal departments to achieve the desired product specification. The goal is to develop products, define specifications to establish reasonable timelines while developing high quality products that meet the end user’s expectations. 

Principal Responsibilities

The Senior R&D Engineer is responsible for, managing quick turn medical device OEM projects, responding to Requests for Quotes, and prototyping catheters and balloon sub-assemblies. Candidate must be able to work with minimal supervision in a fast-paced, customer-centric environment; should enjoy communicating with customers, vendors, and internal departments; and be passionate about our goal of consistent on-time delivery of high quality products. This position is ideally suited for experienced Engineers that like to roll up their sleeves and spend time on the production floor, enjoy autonomy, and quick results from their efforts. 

•    Hands-on catheter/balloon design, development, and assembly experience 
•    Accurately predict project costs, material lead times, and delivery schedules during quoting process.
•    Develop bills of materials and assembly method, and provide training to technicians and assemblers.
•    Will work with many areas including: complex catheters, steerables, smart catheters, balloons, handle design, molding, braiding, tipping, coating, extruding.
•    Develop balloons (including extrusion design) and catheter subassemblies according to customer design, performance, and quality specifications; on time and within budget.
•    Develop products and processes that are reliable as well as identify risks to the project, develop contingency plans, while outlining deliverables and milestones
•    Directs and coordinates activities to develop products and ensure progress as the product specifications/limitations are developed into the technical specification
•    Review and prepare status reports, modify schedules, and project plans as required
•    Keeps stakeholders, customers, and others informed of project status and/or related issues
•    Provide technical leadership, root cause analysis, and resolve customer or project related problems; materials, assembly, functional, or manufacturing related
•    Apply design controls from initial customer requests throughout the products life cycle
•    Intimately involved in developing technical documentation: protocols, including verification and validation testing, drawings, calculation and/or FMEA
•    Collaborate to develop quality assurance, testing, regulatory compliance, and quality plans
•    Address customer's issues: improve performance, appearance, and impact on end-user

Education / Experience Requirements

•    Bachelor's degree in Engineering with a focus in Plastics, Chemical, Biomedical or Mechanical Engineering required
•    Master's degree in Plastics, Chemical, Biomedical or Mechanical Engineering