PRINCIPAL ENGINEER - R&D Project Lead

Our client company in the medical device industry has a heritage of rewarding results with more responsibility and clear accountability. Over the past decade, their business has consistently delivered double-digit growth and has a tremendous future. The Pharmaceutical Systems (PS) R&D Principal Engineer will be a dedicated member of a growing Platform. As a platform team member you will work in partnership with our Pharmaceutical customers on a cross functional product development team. Each platform team is responsible for designing and developing innovative Drug Delivery Systems that meet the specific and sensitive requirements of our Pharmaceutical customers and the needs of the patient.

In this position, you will:

- Be responsible for leading R&D activities from concept all the way through launch of the product including analyzing, prototyping, testing and validating the product 
- Serve as either an R&D core team member, project leader or both for cross functional product development teams including the manufacturing organization.  
- As a Project Leader, maintain timelines, run cross functional teams, and provide reports/ updates to the larger organization.
- Manage multiple projects concurrently
- Lead the company's Innovation effort
- Design products that are compatible with plastic injection molding process
- Analyze and draw conclusions from test data for improving product performance
- Conduct design reviews, FMEA's and design verification programs
- Utilize Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) Tools and Six Sigma methodologies

Our client is looking for:

- Masters in Engineering, preferably Mechanical or Biomedical. PhDs and MBAs are desirable.
- Minimum 7 years of experience in engineering, preferably in the pharmaceutical and/or medical device industry.
- Ability to lead and perform analytical/theoretical force and fluid flow/mechanics analyses
- Experience in providing guidance for FEA analyses and in interpreting results
- Preliminary knowledge of Polymers
- Experience in FEA, CFD, modelization (1st principal)
- Experience in CAD software (ProE, Autocad)
- Experience in Plastic Part design and molding
- Six Sigma Green Belt certification
- Prior knowledge of Design for Manufacturing/Assembly (DFM)