Product Development Manager - Medical Device

International Medical Industries • Pompano Beach, FL

2d • Onsite

About The Position

The Product Development Manager provides direct management of engineers, supervisors, and technicians. This role allocates resources based upon departmental plans and budgets, and is responsible for hire/fire decisions within their department. The manager submits departmental budgets, performance/productivity targets, and reports on results, being measured against performance plan goals and objectives. The primary role is to plan, organize, and direct engineers to meet company objectives for the design and development of new products, and to make improvements to existing products. This manager ensures that all engineering activities are completed on time and conform to the standards established by design control procedures.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering.
• Minimum 5+ years of engineering experience within the medical device industry.
• 3+ years in a leadership role within product development, engineering, design, etc.
• Experience with GMP and other regulatory compliance requirements.
• Experience with design & development of medical devices within a design control process.
• Prior hands-on customer interaction and proven experience understanding the voice of the customer.
• Change management: willing to make hard fact-based decisions, comfortable with an uninstructed and changing environment.
• Skilled at developing new ideas from both a product and process perspective.
• Demonstrated practical application of design FMEA, value engineering, and design for manufacturability concepts.
• Extensive experience in 3D CAD modeling and 2D dimensioning using Solidworks.

Responsibilities

• Supervise the team of engineers within the product development department.
• Responsible for the development of new products as determined by the company’s product development roadmap. Continually researches for new methods or components to enhance or improve existing products.
• Prepare and/or review engineering change requests; coordinate cross functional teams to determine feasibility, develop and oversee preparation and implementation of all engineering change notices and document change control.
• Responsible for maintaining and implementing processes and procedures covered by design control.
• Assist quality and compliance in the implementation of the quality system including but not limited to support in conducting risk analysis, closing customer complaints, CARs, internal audits, and other activities covered by the quality system.
• Assist manufacturing operations with development of processes, tooling, molds, and design transfer necessary to produce new products.
• Provide customer service and sales & marketing departments with orientation and training on new products, and assist with preparation of sales presentations, service/repair methods, and marketing literature.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager