Director Engineering – Medical Plastic Devices

Director Engineering – Medical Plastic Devices

A multi-billion-dollar global manufacturer of medical devices and components is seeking a Director of Engineering for its Plastics / Polymers Group.

This hands-on role centers on medical device products and components manufactured from plastics and polymers through extrusion, forming, injection molding, and assembly. The role combines technical strategy ownership, customer-facing solution development, and close partnership with sales and commercial teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage Engineering teams in the US and EU.
• Collaborate with sales teams to identify customer needs and match them to solutions, features, and offerings.
• Own technical strategy and roadmap development in alignment with commercial and sales teams to deliver customer solutions and grow product offerings for medical device components.
• Drive the development and introduction of new product features, benefits, and solutions that expand existing product lines and create new revenue opportunities.
• Partner with customers (medical device OEMs and contract manufacturers) to provide applications support, technical guidance, and engineered solutions.
• Measure success through growth in product lines, expansion of product features, introduction of new solutions and offerings, and quantified feature/benefit improvements.
• Ensure solutions and processes align with medical device industry requirements, including ISO 13485 quality management standards.

Required Qualifications

• Engineering experience (products made from plastics & polymer materials and related finished products experience).
• Hands-on experience with medical (device) products and components produced via extrusion, injection molding, forming, or assembly.
• Hands-on experience with medical device industry products and familiarity with regulatory/quality requirements, including ISO 13485.
• Prior customer-facing experience in an applications engineering, technical sales, or similar role.
• Proven ability to lead and develop technical teams (experience managing multi-site or international teams is highly desirable).
• Strong understanding of plastics parts production processes, injection molded and plastic extruded parts and assemblies.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with sales, product management, and customers.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or Materials Science.
• This role requires onsite presence approximately 40% of the time, with the balance hybrid. Travel is expected at 35–40% and includes both domestic and international trips.
• Company provides relocation assistance.

Ideal candidates bring medical device product experience with plastics processing (extrusion, injection molding, assembly), in medical applications combined with engineering leadership, including customer-facing solution support, and technical roadmap ownership developed with sales and new business development along with understanding of quality ISO 13485 including FDA approval process.