Medical Device Engineer

Firm: PA Consulting

Location: Melbourn, United Kingdom

PA works with many of the world’s most innovative pharmaceutical, medical device and life sciences companies. Based at our Global Technology and Innovation Centre near Cambridge, you will join a multidisciplinary team of scientists, engineers and designers developing products that improve patient outcomes and bring meaningful innovation to market.

We are looking for an experienced engineering leader to shape and lead the development of drug delivery devices and combination products for leading pharmaceutical and medical technology clients. This role combines deep mechanical engineering expertise with strong technical, project and client leadership.

• Lead complex drug delivery and combination product programmes from concept through to industrialisation.
• Provide senior technical leadership across engineering, usability, risk and manufacturability.
• Build trusted relationships with clients and internal teams.
• Shape strategy, direction and delivery on high‑impact development programmes.

• Broad experience across device architecture, mechanism design, plastic moulded parts, actuation systems and design for manufacture.
• Practical understanding of assembly, sterilisation and industrialisation.
• Confidence in requirements management, structured risk reduction, and building robust test evidence at each stage.
• Strong mechanical design, actuation, injection moulding, tolerancing and design for manufacture expertise.
• Experience with requirements management, design controls, risk management, verification, validation and testing.
• Good understanding of usability, human factors, and electro‑mechanical systems.
• Strong leadership, client engagement and project delivery skills.
• Clear written and verbal communication.
• Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering or a related discipline.

• Private healthcare for you and your family.
• 25 days annual leave, plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve and the option to buy 5 additional days.
• Generous company pension scheme.
• Opportunity to get involved with community and charity‑based initiatives.
• Annual performance‑based bonus and PA share ownership.
• Tax‑efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn).

We’re committed to advancing equality. We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief, veteran status or any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience.

We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.

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