Development Engineer

Overview

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Client designs, develops, manufactures and markets orthopedics products, including knee, hip, shoulder, elbow, foot and ankle artificial joints and dental prostheses. client has operations in more than 40 countries around the world

Job Title: Development Engineer I

Work Location: Warsaw, IN

Duration: 12 Months

Job Type: Temporary Assignment

Work Type: Onsite

Job Description

Duties and Responsibilities:

• With oversight from supervisor and mentorship by senior peers: Stays current with and understands relevant arthroplasty product intended use, clinical procedures, and related regulations and standards
• Identifies user needs through engagement with product users (often Orthopedic Surgeons) and observation of similar device usage
• Translates targeted user needs into design requirements/inputs which satisfy unmet market needs to achieve business goals while also complying with global regulatory requirements and recognized external industry standards
• Creates product designs which fully address targeted user needs/requirements, and authors design rationale to document basis of all design features
• Prepares and reviews information for invention disclosures and patents
• Initiates, provides instruction for and coordinates with support from Client cross-functional team members in the production and inspection of product prototypes for preliminary evaluation; and final design verification, design validation and process validation
• Creates product production specifications which appropriately account for design for manufacturability (process capability) and inspection
• Identifies and documents critical to quality product features based on product intended use, design requirements, associated user risks and the design itself to ensure appropriate quality control inspection plans are generated
• Evaluates, verifies and validates product designs relative to design requirements and to reduce user risk in compliance with Client procedures and global regulatory requirements (includes completing tolerance stack-ups, benchtop testing and executing simulated operating room cadaveric product evaluations)
• Authors, presents and obtains cross-functional team member approval of design control and risk management documentation as part of the product development process in compliance with Client procedures and global regulatory requirements
• Supports Client Quality, Sourcing and Manufacturing teams with new product design transfer tasks for production of market release quantities
  
  

Skills

• You have a key support role with responsibility for new product design, development, and commercialization; and/or to maintain in the market innovative medical device products in order to further Client s mission and grow Client s market leadership position.
  
  

Education

• Minimum B.S. degree from an ABET accredited school (or global equivalent) in one of the following engineering disciplines: Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering Technology, Biomedical Engineering, Bioengineering, Biomedical Engineering Technology, Bioengineering Technology, Aerospace Engineering or Aeronautical Engineering.
  
  

TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.

TekWissen is an emerging global human capital, recruitment and IT services organization. Operating since 2009, we draw upon more than a decade of staffing experience to deliver critical talent acquisition solutions and IT engagements for our clients. We re founded on a culture that is passionate about delivering tailored solutions, that create lasting partnerships.

Our global footprint covers six countries: United States, Canada, Australia, India, United Kingdom and the Philippines. This allows us to work in close partnership with organizations and manage everything from global talent needs with demanding resourcing strategies, to single sites with lower recruitment volumes.

TekWissen is an equal opportunity employer supporting workplace diversity.