This Engineer is a skilled professional responsible for contributing to engineering projects and collaborating with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and implement solutions. You will play an essential role in ensuring the successful execution of engineering tasks and projects to tight time scales and ensuring functional and non-functional requirements are met. This opportunity to be a part of research and development workstreams, subsystems and/or specific products and deliverables in the domains ranging from simple disposable devices to complex thermos-fluidic system and sophisticated robotic solutions involving IT connectivity, machine learning and AI.
As an R&D engineer you will be a part of the product development and engineering department, you will report directly to the R&D Director Product Engineering. Scope of this role includes activities pertaining to sustaining activities, new product development, product upgrades and improvements, line extensions as well as new concept incubation activities. Within the scope of this role are electro-mechanical connected systems and devices associated with In-vitro fertilization (IVF) and Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART). You will also have an opportunity to contribute to product development and sustaining engineering activities associate with surgical devices, instruments, and disposables in broader women’s health field including Obstetrics and Gynecology (OBGYN). In this role within the Global Cooper Surgical R&D organization and you may as needs arise be asked to support other areas of the business to ensure the success of the company in line with the ‘One Cooper’ philosophy.
About CooperSurgical CooperSurgical is a leading fertility and women’s healthcare company dedicated to putting time on the side of women, babies, and families at the healthcare moments that matter most in life. As a division of CooperCompanies, we're driven by a unified purpose to enable patients to experience life's beautiful moments. Guided by our shared values – dedicated, innovative, friendly, partners, and do the right thing – our offerings support patients throughout their lifetimes, from contraception to fertility and birth solutions, to women’s and family care, and beyond. We currently offer over 600 clinically relevant medical devices to healthcare providers, including testing and treatment options, as well as an innovative suite of assisted reproductive technology and genomic testing solutions. Learn more at www.coopersurgical.com. Work location: Falmouth, UK
MEng or BEng (Hons) Degree or equivalent.
Highly Proficient in engineering designs and creation of engineering drawings – required.
Medical device development experience with thorough understanding of design control guidelines including verification and validation methods – required.
Proficiency with engineering first principles and analytical methods including simulation modeling.
Understanding of Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DFMA) – required.
Understanding of statistical methods including design of experiments – required.
Hands-on craft skills and experience with building, fixing, servicing and/or fabricating concepts, fixtures, prototypes or similar – required.
- Experience with FEA and/or simulation mathematical modeling – preferred.
Experience with translating customer to product requirements, conducting harm-based risk analysis and defining acceptance criteria – preferred.
Experience with electro-mechanical, robotic, or digital systems – preferred.
Experience with Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) – preferred.
Experience in drafting testing protocols and reports. - required.
Experience with identifying latent user needs and front-end of innovation process – preferred.
Technical Contributions:
Design and develop components and assemblies using first principles, Lead development of product or sub-systems for complex electromechanical products and analyze / simulate design to understand key parameters and sensitivities. Establish design feasibility by testing circuit and demonstrating statistical capability for critical functions.
Define design inputs (i.e., product requirements), develop design outputs (i.e., product specifications), define technical strategies for an adequate verification and validation approach. Drive successful verification and validation testing.
Ideate, conceptualize, and build concepts and prototypes to aid incubation of new opportunities or down-select wining solutions for new product developments, upgrades, or improvements.
Create simulation and mathematical models as appropriate to demonstrate functional feasibility of technical solution based on experimental, numerical, statistical, and/or finite-elements tools and techniques.
Develop test methods and fixtures for products, components, and systems simulation, evaluation, and verification testing including creating formal Verification test protocols, run tests, and write Verification test reports.
