Product Designer

We’re good at what we do – come and join us and you can benefit from:

• Blended Working
• Bonus
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (rising to 28)
• Option to buy holiday days
• Wellbeing Programme
• Health Cash Plan
• Pension
• Life Assurance
• Enhanced Maternity/Paternity
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Referral Scheme
• Long Service Awards
• Free Parking

Job Title:

Product Designer - 12 month FTC

Reporting to:
Head of Product Development

Hours per week: 37.5

Shift Work:
No

Travel:
Occasional travel to other Eakin Healthcare sites as and when required

Direct Reports:
None

Reporting to the Head of Product Development (Respiratory), the ideal candidate will demonstrate exceptional attention to detail, competency in CAD and analytical review. Having the requisite skills required to work in medical device design and design-for-manufacturing, this role enables the Product Designer to bring-to-life the concepts, ideas, and products around innovation for device clinical effectiveness and patient safety.

Focussing primarily on medical devices for anaesthesia and respiratory critical care settings, success in the role will be reflected in the individual’s high productivity when working in effective teams – translating concepts and ideas into medical devices integrated within manufacturing systems having gained regulatory approval for their use on patients.

Ongoing development in the role is facilitated by involvement in many facets of maintaining medical devices on the market – including involvement in projects to improve the design, manufacturability, and data management of devices through iterative changes.

• Define & communicate product design concepts and refinements through 2D & 3D CAD modelling and
  analysis, prototyping and proof-of-concept activities.
• Translating caregiver and patient clinical requirements into proposed designs.
• Maintaining Design Control documentation and records in accordance with QMS requirements.
• Design-for-manufacture, including injection mould design and downstream product realisation
  activities – such as production considerations, operations support, device assembly, and testing.
• Create & maintain 2D, 3D, and ancillary product and industrial design data on company Product Data
  Management (PDM) system, in line with Standard Operating Procedures.
• Assist withing maintaining & updating Device Master Records (DMRs), the relevant data entry into Bill of
  BOMs and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system as they relate to product data.
• Investigative work, leading to iterative design changes and corrections to existing medical devices.

• Educated to Degree level in Product Design, Industrial Design, Mechanical (or similar) engineering.
• Competency in Solid Works 2D & 3D CAD.
• Competency in Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop.
• Practical experience of design for injection moulding & mould anatomy.
• Exceptional attention to detail.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Excellent numerical skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• High degree of personal organisational discipline.
• Strong cognitive recall capability.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to deliver goals and objectives on time.

• Competency in surface modelling techniques and practical applications.
• Competency in Key Shot product visualisation software.
• Competency in a variety of 3D printing techniques and other prototyping skills.
• Experience in a medical device company.
• Experience of product design for medical devices.
• Strong IT skills (including Microsoft 365 Office).

Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.

Making sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information…