What are the responsibilities and job description for the Molding Engineer - Medical Devices position at Collabera?
Company Description
About Collabera:
Established in 1991, Collabera is one of the fastest growing end-to-end information technology services and solutions companies globally. As a half a billion dollar IT company, Collabera's client-centric business model, commitment to service excellence and Global Delivery Model enables its global 2000 and leading mid-market clients to deliver successfully in an increasingly competitive marketplace.
With over 8200 IT professionals globally, Collabera provides value-added onsite, offsite and offshore technology services and solutions to premier corporations. Over the past few years, Collabera has been awarded numerous accolades and Industry recognitions including.
• Collabera awarded Best Staffing Company to work for in 2012 by SIA. (hyperlink here)
• Collabera listed in GS 100 - recognized for excellence and maturity
• Collabera named among the Top 500 Diversity Owned Businesses
• Collabera listed in GS 100 & ranked among top 10 service providers
• Collabera was ranked:
• 32 in the Top 100 Large Businesses in the U.S
• 18 in Top 500 Diversity Owned Businesses in the U.S
• 3 in the Top 100 Diversity Owned Businesses in New Jersey
• 3 in the Top 100 Privately-held Businesses in New Jersey
• 66th on FinTech 100
• 35th among top private companies in New Jersey
http://www.collabera.com/about_us/accolades.jsp
Collabera recognizes true potential of human capital and provides people the right opportunities for growth and professional excellence. Collabera offers a full range of benefits to its employees including paid vacations, holidays, personal days, Medical, Dental and Vision insurance, 401K retirement savings plan, Life Insurance, Disability Insurance.
Job Description
• The primary responsibility is in plastic co-injection molding process and polymer melt extrusion process, and their mold/tool design to support for existing and new and pipeline device delivery for device-drug combination products.
• Major responsibility in device plastic molding, co-injection molding and co-extrusion processes with the design of mold/tool from the small scale to the large scale of commercial production by utilizing GMP and ISO standards, and also testing for high volume productions to support biopharmaceutical products.
• Partnering with third party manufacturing (TPM) from the small-scale molding with mold/tool design to scale up for the commercial production in the co-injection/co-extrusion and their mold/tool design for scale up for commercial applications.
Major Responsibilities:
• Responsible for medical device part co-injection and co-extrusion processes, and their mold/tool design and scientific molding to support processing optimization for high volume injection and extrusion processes
• Responsible for the molding/extrusion process, polymer material and equipment integration to develop process and broaden the process space of co-injection and co-extrusion processes
• Responsible to partner with TPM to design mold/tool and molding/extrusion process with the selected materials and injection and co-injection molding machine for process optimization
• Responsible to work with design engineers to design and develop the part design and conduct the molding trials to optimize the part design, mold/tool design and molding and co-injection process through quality by design to meet the functionality and manufacturability requirements
Skills Requirements
• Experience in part molding in co-injection and co-extrusion processes with scientific molding approach to broaden the process space to meet part dimension specs and tolerance ranges
• Experience in Moldflow analysis software and with polymer material properties to assess and predict the part quality in terms of part dimension, warpage, and built stress mitigation to optimized the part quality
• Hand-on experience in co-injection and co-extrusion processes and in partnership with TPM for the part develop and manufacture for multiple layers of co-injection and co-extrusion parts
• Hand-on experience in both melt extrusion and injection molding is preferred
• Experience in polymer, plasticized polymer and thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) co-injection and melt extrusion and their mold/tool design and development for scale up to commercial production
• Experience in system integration of design, materials, process, equipment and assembly for medical device and experience in device functionality testing of components and assembly
• Experience in partnering with third party manufacturing for production to develop the mold/tool and their design trials for part functionality and manufacturability applications.
Qualifications
BS with preferred 5-10 years of experience; Or MS with preferred 3-10 years of experience; Or Ph.D. with preferred 2-8 years of experience in Molding/Extrusion Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Material Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Biomechanical Engineering, or Biomedical Engineering.
Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.