Design Engineer - Continuous Improvement

Owen Mumford is looking to hire a Design Engineer to join our Continuous Improvement team! Could this be your next role?

We are looking to invest in an enthusiastic, skilled, and innovative Design Engineer who thrives to deliver market leading technology which is appealing to end users.

As part of the R&D department, you will be working within our Continuous Improvement team who focus on all R&D activities relating to our current on market products. These products, after the initial development stage, are passed to the CI team to be continuously reviewed, analysed and improved.

The Design Engineer will be responsible for implementing new variations, supporting customers, developing improvements driven by market and Operational feedback. The role is often challenging and requires you to be flexible and autonomous with your day to day activities. Unlike early stage development the challenges you will face will be more restrictive and will require more considered solutions.

This is an ideal role for someone whom may already have medical device experience and wants to take on more responsibility for full devices or someone with aligned experience and wants to transition into a medical device design environment and can demonstrate this against the following responsibilities:-

• Project Work: Delivering project tasks in a timely manner to a high standard with minimal support. Interacting and communicating effectively within project teams in both support, and design lead roles. Assist project delivery by identifying tasks, and assisting with creation of project plans and independently controlling design projects / sub-projects.
• Customer Interaction: Will be required to lead customers throughout projects in a professional manner. Interactions may involve project updates, providing support for engineering changes, collaborating to create product design specifications and user requirement documents.
• Mechanical Design: Developing and engineering features, components, and assemblies in 3D CAD (SolidWorks). Providing robust and innovative solutions. Developing and supporting intellectual property portfolio where appropriate. Will be required to assess and select appropriate materials.
• Manufacturing Engineering: Generating new and revised 2D detailed engineering drawings to a high standard with consideration given to manufacturing tolerances, measurement, and controlling design intent. Liaising with industrialisation teams to optimise design for manufacture and assembly.
• Technical Report Writing: Create well reasoned and thorough technical reports to support engineering analysis, design decisions, test data, research, design verification, and technical investigations. Provide peer review of reports created by other team members. Assist in generation of test protocols and reports.
• Human Factors Engineering: Work alongside Human Factors Specialist with resources available to ensure products are safe in use, intuitive, and effective. Ensure user centred focus is applied to products under development. Perform changes required to meet requirements recommended by the HFE process. Provide all necessary information and materials required to perform formative and summative studies, and to create HFE background documents.
• Design Analysis: Perform analysis of design integrity through analytical methods and laboratory testing. Mitigate, and optimise through the use and application of a range of tools such as FMEA, Tolerance analysis, and FEA (Abaqus).
• Regulatory: Establish, demonstrate, and apply an understanding of appropriate regulatory frameworks throughout product development. All work to be carried out to GMP (Good Manufacturing Processes). Generation of design control documentation such as design and development plan, design input / output documents, design verification, design validation, design transfer, design review, design history file, and design change documents.
• Support development of Junior Design Engineers.

To be successful in this role, you will need:

• Previous experience in a design engineering (or similar) role ideally within a medical or similarly regulated environment
• The ability to create, understand, and develop complex features, components, and assemblies
• Experience using CAD (SolidWorks). 3D, 2D, Surfacing
• Experience with product design and development for manufacture, seeing a product from start to finish
• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal
• A creative mindset

What will we give you?

You will be joining a successful, privately owned industry leader who are constantly innovating and looking to improve lives, empower patients and relieve the pressure on healthcare professionals. We invest heavily in our staff and offer a competitive salary and benefits package along with the opportunity to develop within the business. Additional benefits include:

• Remote working up to 2 days per week
• Flexi time covering 37.5 hours per week with core working hours of 9:30am-12 Noon and 2:00pm-4:00pm (3:30pm on Fridays)
• 25 days annual leave (with the opportunity to earn loyalty days with length of service)
• Holiday purchase scheme (up to 10 days purchased per holiday year)
• Enhanced Family Friendly Policies
• Enhanced Sickness Pay
• Group Life Insurance
• Wellbeing initiatives and support
• Annual company bonus
• Free parking, free tea & coffee and free fruit

About us:

Owen Mumford is a global leader in medical device design and manufacture. For almost 70 years we have been inventing life-enhancing devices that are tested and proven to deliver an industry benchmark in the safety, accuracy and comfort of medication administration. This strong heritage is the springboard for our future as we help to shape the progress of the healthcare industry by bringing pioneering concepts and solutions to life in an accountable and sustainable way. Headquartered in the UK, Owen Mumford is a family-run business with a large global presence across North America, EMEA and APAC.