» Senior Consultant-Surgical/Interventional products

Main purpose of the job

- To take a leading role in the design and delivery of multi-disciplinary projects in the field of surgical & interventional devices.
- The position will require you to apply your extensive product development experience and project leadership skills to the development of world-leading medical products for clients around the globe.


Specific responsibilities
- You will provide a technical point of contact within the company for clients. Significant project management tasks will be a key part of the role, and you will lead multi-disciplinary projects teams including engineers, physicists, industrial designers and scientists.
- As a senior member of staff, you will support the business development campaigns in a variety of ways including attending, exhibiting and presenting at key conferences.
- You will also represent the company at sales meetings. You will use your strong technical expertise and knowledge of medical devices to develop relationships with current and future clients by understanding their needs, writing proposals to define the work programmes, holding technical workshops and presenting data.
- This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced engineer or scientist with the ambition and ability to achieve excellent results in a highly demanding industry and to find novel and radical solutions to new and existing problems under demanding commercial, regulatory and time constraints.


Minimum requirements
- To meet the demanding requirements of this role you will have an excellent degree within an engineering or scientific discipline
- You should have a very high level of practical experience within an engineering design environment along with proven technical skills
- Knowledge of medical devices is essential with experience at a surgical products or medical device company a requirement
- You will be a self-motivated team player with enthusiasm and strong leadership skills
- Significant project management or project leadership experience is essential
- An excellent understanding of medical device development processes compliant with ISO13485 and Quality System Regulation is also a key requirement
- Hands-on experience of manufacturing and assembly processes from one off designs to high volume manufacture would be an advantage

In addition experience in the design, development or manufacture of the following will be beneficial:

- Laparoscopic or minimally invasive equipment
- Robotics in medical/surgical applications
- Surgical navigation technologies
- Implantable devices (cardiac rhythm management, neurostimulation)

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