Senior Product Development Engineer

Senior Product Development Engineer COMPANY OVERVIEW

Sage Product Development, Inc. provides fast, efficient and creative product development services to medical device companies. We are a focused team of experienced medical device engineers who know what it takes to develop successful products for startups, multinational companies, and everyone in between.

We combine a high level of experience with a low overhead company structure. We solve client companies’ technical challenges and meet their product development needs in a timely, efficient and highly personalized manner.

We offer the right candidate the opportunity to work in an entrepreneurial environment, enhance their product development engineering abilities, and build their network within the industry.

Develop medical devices from concept through market introduction on a contract basis for client companies.

Meet or exceed customer expectations.

• Manage product development projects. Prepare project plans that specify project phases, tasks, task interdependencies, durations, resource assignments, and costs. Proactively communicate task assignments to responsible individuals, and ensure that tasks are completed within the planned time. Track projects to project plans. Proactively report project status to Sage personnel and to the project’s client company.
• Generate project timing and expense estimates and prepare project proposals for client companies.
• Design and develop medical devices (disposable and reusable), catheters, equipment, implants, and/or packaging, from concept through market introduction. Ensure that designs meet performance specifications, regulatory and manufacturing requirements.
• Interact with client companies in a professional manner. Proactively communicate with client companies to ensure an ongoing two-way exchange of information.
• Generate innovative concepts for new medical device designs to satisfy customer and clinical requirements. Lead and participate in concept generation activities, including brainstorming sessions. Refine, rate, rank and/or otherwise assess concepts.
• Utilize Solid Works to develop detailed 3-D CAD models and drawings, including component, subassembly, and top-level drawings.
• Investigate and evaluate existing technology for application to projects.
• Design and implement new methodologies, materials, machines, processes or products as required to achieve product development goals.
• Produce prototype devices for testing and evaluation. Work with internal and/or external resources to produce prototype device components. Assemble and/or evaluate prototype devices.
• Conduct bench and/or animal feasibility studies.
• Conduct product verification and validation testing to demonstrate product safety and efficacy. Determine what testing is required to satisfy product requirements, to investigate potential failure modes, and to otherwise address the project design inputs. Develop protocols, plan testing, and perform or monitor testing. Utilize statistical methods as required to plan testing and to analyze test results. Write test reports which draw conclusions from the results.
• Conduct risk analyses. Conduct and document Failure Mode and Effects Analyses.
• Perform tolerance analysis of components and assemblies to ensure proper fit and functionality.
• Coordinate activities with outside suppliers and consultants to ensure the delivery of supplies or services needed to meet customer expectations.
• Maintain detailed essential product and process documentation throughout all phases of research and development. Maintain Design History Files (DHFs). Ensure that DHFs are accurate, complete and well organized.
• Prepare documentation release packages, including detail drawings, bills of material, and/or procedures. Approve Document Change Orders (DCOs) and obtain approvals from others as required.
• Ensure that all work satisfies the requirements of client companies’ Quality Systems, with particular emphasis on Design Control.
• Conduct and document Design Reviews.
• Participate in Material Review Board activities. Make decisions regarding product and material discrepancies…