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The Staff Engineer, R&D – Verification and Validation, is the technical lead in the design verification or design validation of electromechanical medical devices developed by embecta. Reporting up to the Associate Director, R&D – Verification and Validation, the successful candidate brings prior electromechanical medical device design, development and qualification experience and a passion for delivering innovative, cost effective and reliable medical device solutions to their customers.

R esponsibilities include but not limited to the following:

• Collaborates as a key member ofthe R&D, Systems and V&V teams to ensure that product requirements are relevant, testable and measurable.

• Defines appropriate regression testing or incremental test plans with rationales, for engineering changes to previously verified designs.

• Works with contractual laboratory partners to define and execute tests per applicable safety and compliance standards; including but not limited to ISO 10993 standard for biocompatibility, transportation and distribution testing per ASTM D4332 and ASTM D4169 standards, etc.

• Leads the execution of IEC 60601 mechanical safety testing relevant to the product profile, working with external lab vendors to ensure appropriate product certifications.

• Defines, plans and leads activities, including, test method & measurement system development and validation, fixture design and testing optimization in support of Design Verification or Design Validation.

• Provides input on relevant safety and compliance standard requirements on new product development projects (NPD), based on the product class and category.

• Authors and executes Design Verification plans or protocols to ensure design input requirements are satisfied to all relevant Quality System and regulatory requirements.

• Definesand leads the execution of a suitable product reliability test plan to critically evaluate system performance and reliability, ensuring that the product is adequately pressure-tested to satisfy user, regulatory and business requirements.

• Ensures Design Verification testing is performed with sample sizes that meet the requisite confidence level and reliability, proportional to the risk assessed for the relevant design inputs.

• Authors Design Verification test reports to support regulatory submissions for new products, derivative products, or regulatory approvals to expanded geographical regions.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Biomedical Engineering or related field.

• 10+ years of professional experience leading or supporting product development projects, including electrical and mechanical systems.

• 5+ years of experience with leading or executing Design Verification of disposable electromechanical medical devices that include Hardware/Firmware/Software (App) interfaces.

• Practical experience with various elements of the New Product Development (NPD) process; including design lifecycle phases and product design qualification in support of regulatory submissions (US -FDA or other geographic region agencies).

• Experience with defining and executing testing regimen to demonstrate compliance with IEC 60601 for mechanical and electrical safety.

• Demonstrated experience with developing and executing product reliability test plans for both durable and disposable medical devices.

• Experience with implementing product changes through a structured, phase-gated product development process that compiles with FDA regulations for Design Control.

• Proficiency with statistical techniques including familiarity with Gage R&R, Reliability, analysis of variance (ANOVA) and design of experiment (DOE) methodologies.

• Experience solving problems, provides detailed insight and constructive criticism in complex situations, and foresees problems along with potential solutions.

• Leadership and team building skills.

• Working with regulatory standards.

• Strong project management skills.

Desired Qualifications:

• Graduate degree (MS or PhD) in Engineering or related field.

• 10+ years of post-educational experience in Medical Device Design highly desired.

• Experience as lead in the development of medical disposable devices highly desired.

• Experience with software or firmware development compliant with IEC 62304 highly desired.

• Six Sigma training and experience to apply either the DFSS of DMAIC methodology throughout the design and development process.

• Experience with implementing biological evaluation plans and executing biocompatibility testing per ISO 10993 and FDA guidance on biocompatibility.

• Pharmaceutical Infusion pump development experience.

• Expertise in common risk management techniques highly desired.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Established expertise in leading engineering analysis to predict behavior of proposed designs with analysis tools based on analytical or computational methods (e.g. Minitab, Matlab, etc.).

• Demonstrated deep understanding of establishing project and product requirements.

• Regulatory standards (21CFR 820, IEC 60601, ISO 14971, ISO 13485), and system level V&V planning and execution.

• Knowledge of Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) methodology.

• Excellent verbal and writing skills.

• Highly collaborative both within the function and with other functions.

• Advanced technical and managerial judgment; advanced problem solving skills.

• Self-initiator, results driven and action & detail oriented.

• Disciplined and well organized.

• Demonstrated learning agility of new subject matter.

• Understanding and use of an innovation process utilizing elements of search, synthesis, and select.

• Strong passion for the diabetes epidemic and motivation to simplify the management of diabetes.

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