Supervisor - Test Engineer - Medical Devices

 Requisition ID:          61586 Title: Supervisor - Test Engineer - Medical Devices Division: Arthrex, Inc. (US01) Location: INC Santa Barbara CA (ACT) (US17) Salary Range: Salary Minimum: $120,750.00 Salary Maximum:  $212,750.00

 

 

 

 

 

Arthrex, Inc. is a global medical device company and a leader in new product development and medical education in orthopedics. The Supervisor -Test Engineering will be responsible for supervising Test Engineers for full life cycle development, test, deployment of medical devices in the achievement of company goals. Join our talented team at a global medical device company focused on Helping Surgeons Treat Their Patients Better™.

 

 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Supervises Test Engineering work activities to provide timely and efficient flow of services and projects.
• Assists in hiring, developing and retaining the best talent for the engineering team and the organization. Actively provides coaching and career development assistance to team members.
• Supports R&D in feasibility studies, dry-runs and helps R&D to create test requirements/acceptance criteria.
• Works with R&D in early design phases to ensure design for test and to deliver test systems in parallel with products.
• Creates verification test protocols, performs verification activities and creates verification test reports
• Drives test efficiency and data collection utilizing test automation.
• Coordinates deliverables and manages dependencies with hardware/software development teams.
• Supports Manufacturing vendors to provide processing improvements.
• In support of Operations and Quality, supports investigations through root cause analysis of test systems and products. Delivers data to support operational and quality analytics.
• Provides Regulatory Department technical support for projects as needed.
• Supports Marketing and Product Management with technical information to be used for training and marketing of assigned products.
• Supports surgeon and distributor customers by training and/or educating on technical aspects of assigned products as needed.

 

 

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering or equivalent work experience.
• 5 years of relevant engineering experience. Medical device industry experience is preferred.
• Experience of supervising, coaching and mentoring junior (test) engineers.

 

 

Knowledge and Skill Requirements/Specialized Courses and/or Training:

• Strong engineering experience with demonstrated capability to deliver test systems in controlled verification/production environment
• Creativity to manage constraints and build relationships with all stakeholders
• Understanding of hardware, firmware, software interfaces
• Understanding of test strategies, procedures, automation at component level and full system level.
• Manufacturing process knowledge in medical device manufacturing experience is a plus.
• Strong understanding of Quality System and focused on compliance.

 

 

Machine, Tools, and/or Equipment Skills:

• Knowledge of surgical equipment and instrumentation, hardware debuggers, software development environments and debugging tools. Bench top testing and troubleshooting with typical lab equipment & applicable software.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Arthrex Benefits

• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
• Company-Provided Life Insurance