Principal Product Development Engineer

Expected Travel: Up to 10%

Requisition ID: 11490

 

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™, QuikClot™, LMA™, Pilling™, 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.

 

Interventional - The Interventional business unit at Teleflex offers innovative medical devices that are used to diagnose and treat coronary and peripheral vascular diseases. We place a strategic emphasis on complex coronary and peripheral interventions, vascular access, bone access, specialty biologic treatments and cardiac assist. Our current Interventional products include a broad range of clinically relevant solutions, such as our GuideLiner® and Turnpike® Catheters, AC3 Optimus™ Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump and OnControl® Powered Bone Access System. With a strong R&D footprint and pipeline, our fast-growing Interventional business unit is poised to continue the development of new technologies to serve critically ill patients for years to come. 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 is an exciting opportunity within the Interventional business unit of Teleflex. In this role, you will have the chance to innovate and work on complex life saving technologies to support patients and/or preventing escalation of therapy. This is an exciting technical leadership opportunity for a Principal R&D engineer who will lead a complex portfolio within the Interventional business unit working on ideation,  development of new and innovative interventional products and sustain existing products. This person will have oversight of products with muti-disciplinary technology domains in mechanical, electrical and software areas.  This person will have the opportunity to collaborate with teams from multiple sites and cross functional departments.  This is a great fit for those that are seeking to a) manage technologically inspiring programs and are hungry to solve some of the most complex engineering problems, b) influence stakeholders and leadership through strong communication and data driven decision making process, c) work for purposeful programs that utilize technology to improve health outcomes in sick patients.   

Principal Responsibilities

•    Demonstrate capability to become a Subject matter expert in the interventional cardiology space, works to understand the anatomy, clinical procedures associated with the relevant therapies and supports the development of strategic roadmaps
•    Provide leadership among the franchise teams in managing complex decisions on some of the most technologically complex product lines in the company that also have a large volume of sustaining initiatives that constantly need to be evaluated against NPD projects  
•    Provides product stewardship on projects from concept through commercialization
•    Communicates effectively across multiple levels of the organization, builds trust among core team members and stakeholders, takes initiative to execute and meet the expectations of this role
•    Keeps up with industry trends, attends conferences and obtain stakeholder feedback on clinical unmet needs, translates needs to specific requirements, clinical hazards and design risks and support the formulation of business cases on new programs
•    Applies strong technical product knowledge, design control expertise and clinical understanding to support translating user requirements to product specs, evaluate clinically appropriate test methods for characterization, verification and validations
•    Leads and supports the ideation process, supports the development of product roadmaps and clinical procedural maps for the portfolio in order to support strategic plans
•    Highly inventive and has the ability to generate new product designs/concepts in an organized and consistent manner.
•    Interface with physicians and other medical personnel in a professional manner (maintaining confidentiality and intellectual property vigilance.)
•    Participates and supports as SME on critical sustaining initiatives that im