What are the responsibilities and job description for the Failure Analysis Engineer position at DEKA Research & Development?
DEKA Research and Development, housed in Manchester, NH, is looking for a dynamic, results driven and inventive individual to join our team as a Failure Analysis Engineer. This is your opportunity to utilize your engineering skills to make an impact on a project that is creating truly life changing innovations!
How you will make an impact as a Failure Analysis Engineer:
One hour from the beach, Boston, and the mountains, the historic Amoskeag Millyard once housed the largest textile mills in the world. It is now home to DEKA Research & Development, where we are taking the same innovation and cutting-edge technology into the modern age.
Behind DEKA’s brick walls sits a team of professionals who strive to make a difference every day through thoughtful engineering, design, and manufacturing. Here at DEKA, some of the most innovative and life-changing products of our time are created, and new ideas are always welcome and explored.
How you will make an impact as a Failure Analysis Engineer:
- Join a skilled team of investigators reviewing device issues reported from the field and diagnosing potential issues with regard to returned hardware to root cause
- Conduct detailed failure analysis of returned medical products and document findings, including reviewing and interpreting log data and physical evaluation
- Accurately report product investigations within a FDA-compliant Quality Management System following good documentation practices
- Support implementation of product improvements based on findings to enhance product quality and patient quality of life
- Actively participate in maintaining returned material investigation procedures and processes
- Maintain an overall level of product quality in line with DEKA and regulatory standards
- Collaborate with representatives from various engineering disciplines to determine root cause
- Configure and operate computer based data acquisition equipment
- BS in Engineering or equivalent
- Preferred experience in Biomedical, Mechanical or Electrical Engineering
- Ability to diagnose complex devices including mechanical, electrical and software issues
- Hands on experience with electro-mechanical devices
- Ability to interpret mechanical drawings, electrical schematics, and software description documents
- Ability to efficiently utilize tooling including electrical test equipment, mechanical test fixtures and software based diagnostic tools
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, detailed oriented
- Candidates should be prepared to give specific examples of hands-on academic projects and/or pertinent work experience. Examples include group projects demonstrating leadership and/or collaboration, and situations of self-initiated learning and progression (both academic and non-academic)
One hour from the beach, Boston, and the mountains, the historic Amoskeag Millyard once housed the largest textile mills in the world. It is now home to DEKA Research & Development, where we are taking the same innovation and cutting-edge technology into the modern age.
Behind DEKA’s brick walls sits a team of professionals who strive to make a difference every day through thoughtful engineering, design, and manufacturing. Here at DEKA, some of the most innovative and life-changing products of our time are created, and new ideas are always welcome and explored.