R&D Development Engineer

Pioneering trusted medical solutions to improve the lives we touch: Convatec is a global medical products and technologies company, focused on solutions for the management of chronic conditions, with leading positions in advanced wound care, ostomy care, continence care, and infusion care. With around 10,000 colleagues, we provide our products and services in almost 100 countries, united by a promise to be forever caring. Our solutions provide a range of benefits, from infection prevention and protection of at-risk skin, to improved patient outcomes and reduced care costs.

The role: ConvaTec Development Engineer, has experience in medical device product development and manufacturing processes, and is part of a team supporting the maintenance of existing products in the market. The Development engineer will work cross-functionally to help solve design issues, manufacturing issues, support on-market complaints and support the delivery of line extensions and NPI.

• Design and Development of customer focused sterile and non-sterile medical devices, across multiple locations, from concept through to commercialization, project managing technical elements of development projects.
• Carry out R&D development activities within a Design Controls Framework in accordance with ISO 13485 & 21CFR820 Quality Systems.
• Problem solving activities & ideas generation to deliver practical solutions.
• Support for design for manufacturing.
• Generating work/test plans, design documentation (including specifications); Development & Validation of new test methods, etc.
• Developing and maintaining good working relationships with all key internal and external organizational stakeholders (RA, QA, Clinical, Operations).
• Liaise with other business functions to effectively execute projects.

• Bachelor's Degree in Science and/or Engineering (or equivalent).
• Experience working within the Medical Devices or equivalent regulated industry.
• Experience in medical device design control and/or manufacturing processes.
• Demonstrable experience of on-time delivery of complex technical projects and activities.
• Building productive relationships with external parties (e.g. design houses and contract development and manufacturing organizations (CDMO's)).
• Applying a range of statistical techniques incl. Design of Experiments (DoE) to product/process development activities.
• Highly structured, ability to progress tasks in parallel, and proven problem-solving skills.
• Experience of Product & Process Validation activities.
• The ability to communicate effectively in English (verbal and written) is essential.
• Highly computer literate i.e. Microsoft Office (Outlook, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint).

• Experience product design (high level and detailed), detailed engineering design, quality function deployment, design for manufacture, design for assembly and/or value proposition design.
• Experience in Advanced Wound Care in R&D.
• Experience of materials, adhesives, processing flexible films/fabrics and antimicrobials.

• Bachelor's degree in science and/or Engineering (or equivalent).

The nature of this role will require the individual to deal with a wide range of contacts at different levels of seniority within the organization. In addition, the individual will deal with contacts external to the organization where these may be external companies or government agencies.

• Internal – RA (to understand and work with regulatory guidance for medical devices); Operations (to support and guide and articulate design aspects to device manufacture); QA (to work through quality related issues and provide solutions).
• External – Test houses (develop testing and test methods); manufacturers (support multifunctional teams on design related aspects).

Up to 10% (variable and dependent on projects).

Hybrid working – 2 number of days per week in the office driven by business requirements as Convatec has a flexible approach to office working.

The candidate should also be flexible as travel may fall outside normal working hours. Flexibility to support Operations across shifts and weekends if required.

Our transformation will change your career. For good. You’ll be pushed to think bigger and aim for excellence. Your ideas will be heard, and you’ll be supported to bring them to life. There’ll be challenges. But, stretch yourself and embrace the opportunities, and you could make your biggest impact yet. This is stepping outside of your comfort zone. This is work that’ll move you.