Project Manager - Medical Instrumentation

Salary: Attractive package + car + healthcare + NC pension

Business Type: Medical Devices Company
Job Type: Engineering
Location: Cardiff

Background:

Our client company specialises in the design, development, manufacture and marketing of surgical devices for use in advanced minimal access and outpatient surgical procedures. This is a senior engineering role to provide key account project management of one or more medical device development projects. You will be an experienced mechanical engineer with good qualifications and a proven track record. Applicants should possess excellent technical judgement, communication skills and an enthusiastic approach to problem solving and the ability translate bright ideas.

As well as your Project Management and Man Management abilities, this position requires both an analytical and a hands on approach to design of innovative surgical instruments. Knowledge and experience in any of the following areas would be of benefit: precision medical devices, vendor and consultant management, regulatory requirements, small mechanisms/drives and controls, fluid systems, electronics packaging, materials (particularly thermoplastics, technical ceramics) and a broad understanding of production processes and manufacturing methods.

A certain amount of travel will be necessary and the attendance of international medical meetings and seminars will be encouraged.

This post offers exciting challenges and rewards to the right candidate. As a minimum you will have an engineering degree plus 5 years appropriate post graduate industrial experience.

Primary Duties:

· Understanding of the requirements for novel electro-therapeutic devices, which build on existing products

· Planning all the activities needed to meet the above requirements (i.e. through feasibility, development and introduction into manufacturing)

· Identifying suitable resources and leading a project team to meet its objectives

· Identifying technical solutions to key problems, either in material choice, manufacturing process or practical design

· Using hand-on approach in providing technical guidance and resolution of any outstanding problems

· Keeping to budgetary targets

· Controlling the design to ensure that the manufacturing costs are below agreed level

· Provision of technical material for submission to relevant Regulatory Bodies

· Liaison with product/marketing development managers and customers

· Preparation of new project time-scales and budgets

· Preparing regular update reports and presentations

· Using PC based instrumentation and CAD tools to validate solutions

Responsibilities

· Project planning

· Supervision of design & development, both internal and sub-contract

· Project budget and time-scales

· Design Reviews

· Achievement of product release target

Qualifications:

Enthusiastic and self-motivated, this person needs to be technically minded and able to analyse new problems and identify suitable solutions quickly.

Academic qualifications are essential to ensure complex technical issues can be understood and analysed quickly. Some appreciation of electronics will be needed.

Similarly, practical skills and experience are important, because a wide range of materials and processes are involved with the manufacture of all our products. A reasonable level of manual dexterity for working with small items is implied, along with a knowledge of a range materials and machining technologies.

A background of medical devices would be ideal, although aerospace, defence or other high technology industries which are based on mechanical engineering may be suitable.

The individual is likely to be 30-40 years old with a good first degree and/or a postgraduate qualification in a relevant discipline. He or she will have a sound track record in the development of precision mechanisms or devices using exotic materials, and this will include working in and preferably leading multi-disciplined team to meet tight objectives.

To apply for this exciting opportunity send your CV(preferably as a Word document) to John Scourfield.

Medius Recruitment
Legion House 38 Roman Way
Lechlade-on-Thames
Gloucestershire GL7 3BP

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email: info@mediusrecruitment.co.uk