Senior Design Engineer - Development in Woodstock

Owen Mumford are looking to hire an enthusiastic Senior Design Engineer. This role is a Fixed Term Contract (6-12 months). You will join the R&D department to work on exciting and challenging projects from conception through to production, experiencing all aspects of a full medical device design role alongside Customers, Sales and Marketing, Project Management, Quality, and Manufacturing departments. Reporting directly to a Principal Design Engineer & Design Team Leader, you will be an integral member of the R&D Team and lead design projects and tasks within Device Development, focused on ensuring that projects are robustly developed in line with the goals of the relevant phase from Research to On Market and scaling.

Responsibilities

• Project Work: Delivering project tasks in a timely manner to a high standard with minimal support. Interacting and communicating effectively within project teams in both support and design lead roles. Demonstrate project delivery by identifying tasks and assisting with creation of project plans and independently controlling design projects / sub-projects. Share concepts and design intent across functions and customers with excellent presentation skills.
• Customer Interaction: Lead technical discussions with customers in a professional manner. Interactions may involve project updates, supporting engineering changes, collaborating to create product design specifications and user requirement documents. Provide guidance and improve customer confidence through prior experience.
• Mechanical Design: Develop and refine features, components, and assemblies in 3D CAD (SolidWorks). Provide robust and innovative solutions to improve product range. Develop and support intellectual property portfolio where appropriate. Provide support and guidance to design engineers and junior design engineers. Maintain high competence across CAD aspects. Apply knowledge of material properties in material selection.
• Manufacturing Engineering: Generate new and revised 2D detailed engineering drawings with consideration of manufacturing tolerances, measurement, and design intent. Liaise with industrialisation teams to optimise design for manufacture and assembly. Apply knowledge of existing processes early to streamline industrialisation phases.
• Product Design: Understand market, user, and pharmaceutical customer needs. Responsible for all product design cycle activities. Assist in organisation and preparation of materials for user studies / focus groups. Identify product / feature opportunities and evaluate contributions from the team. Lead the creation of design input documents, concept generation, and development.
• Human Factors Engineering: Work with the Human Factors Specialist to ensure products are safe in use, intuitive, and effective. Apply user-centred focus to products under development. Ensure designs meet HFE requirements and provide necessary information and materials for formative and summative studies and HFE background documents.
• Design Analysis: Identify analysis requirements. Review, justify, and perform analysis of design integrity through analytical methods and laboratory testing. Mitigate and optimise through the use of tools such as FMEA, Tolerance analysis, and FEA (Abaqus). Bring a high level of experience to design analysis from past projects, issues, and resolutions.
• Regulatory: Understand and apply appropriate regulatory frameworks throughout product development. All work to GMP. Lead generation of design control documentation including design and development plan, design input/output documents, design verification, design validation, design transfer, design review, design history file, and design change documents.

To be successful in this role, you will need

• Strong experience in a design engineering (or similar) role within a medical or similarly regulated environment.
• Experienced in leading design projects.
• Mechanical design and development of plastic parts for injection moulding. Full understanding of tooling requirements and features.
• Able to create, understand, and develop complex features, components, and assemblies.
• Proven ability to solve technical problems.
• Experience within Medical Device or similar regulated industry. E.g. ISO 13485, FDA 820.30.
• Proficient CAD user (SolidWorks). 3D, 2D, Surfacing.
• Highly computer literate (Excel/Word and PowerPoint).
• Risk assessment (FMEA).
• Ability to produce technical reports.
• Experience of quality management systems.
• Materials knowledge (Plastics).
• Design change control.
• Technical drawing, geometric tolerancing, and tolerance analysis.
• Human factors engineering.
• Extensive experience in design for manufacture (tooling and assembly).

What we will give you

• 25 days annual leave (with loyalty days based on length of service).
• Flexi time – 37.5 hours per week with core hours 9:30am–12:00 noon and 2:00pm–4:00pm (3:30pm on Fridays).
• Remote working (2 days per week).
• Company pension scheme with employer contributions.
• Holiday purchase scheme (up to 10 days per holiday year).
• Enhanced Family Friendly Policies.
• Enhanced Sickness Pay.
• Group Life Insurance.
• BUPA Private Medical Care.
• Cycle2Work Scheme.
• Electric Car Scheme.
• Wellbeing initiatives and support.
• Free parking, free tea & coffee.

About Us

Owen Mumford is a global leader in medical device design and manufacture. For over 70 years we have been inventing life-enhancing devices that are tested and proven to deliver an industry benchmark in safety, accuracy and comfort of medication administration. This strong heritage supports our future as we help shape healthcare by bringing pioneering concepts and solutions to life in an accountable and sustainable way. Headquartered in the UK, Owen Mumford is a family-run business with a large global presence across North America, EMEA and APAC.

Owen Mumford is an equal opportunities employer. We aim to ensure that no candidate or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity. Every job offer is subject to satisfactory references and compliance with vetting requirements applicable to the job role.