Job ID: JOB-11287
Senior R&D Engineer

My leading multinational medical device manufacturing client are recruiting for a Senior R&D Engineer. In the R&D department you will be focusing on the development of cutting-edge medical devices. This role will be based at the Galway site but you will have the option of WFH 2/3 days a week on a permanent basis.

Responsibilities

• Identify and assess opportunities for device, technology & process development
• Work from basic clinical need through opportunity assessment and device concept to prototype
• Effectively represent Medtronic while interacting with physicians to distil their needs into product requirements and concepts
• Participate in technical innovation across the department
• Identify and mitigate technological risks throughout the design process
• Apply understanding of anatomy & physiology with engineering knowledge in materials and processes to come up with working designs
• Interface effectively and build relationships with team members, other staff and key technology and component suppliers, both locally and globally
• May be required to progress a project from concept phase into commercialization phase and play a key role on the product /process /engineering /leadership fronts
• Contribute to resolution technical challenges with existing designs and support portfolio sustaining activities
• Contribute to generation of intellectual property
• Delegate/direct work of experienced engineers
• Provide coaching/guidance to less experienced team members

Key Skills & Experience

• You will need your Bachelor/Master’s Degree level 8 in Mechanical, Biomedical or related engineering discipline and desirably with 5 years relevant experience
• Ideally experience interfacing with physicians and reducing feedback to device concepts

For further information on this Senior R&D Engineer role in Galway please contact Amanda Reynolds on 0860468858/ technical@hero.ie 

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Amanda Reynolds

JOB-11287