Sr, R&D Technician

BD is one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world. Advancing the world of health™ is our Purpose, and it’s no small feat. It takes the imagination and passion of all of us—from design and engineering to the manufacturing and marketing of our billions of Med Tech products per year—to look at the impossible and find transformative solutions that turn dreams into possibilities.

• Product builds:
  Assist, coordinate, track and build product part or prototypes builds for engineering evaluation, validation, pre‑clinical and clinical studies, marketing and commercial sales. Sets up and operates manufacturing equipment.
• Process Development:
  Assist in new process development for new or existing medical devices and processes, supporting tooling and equipment development. Assists in conceptual input to the design of fixtures, tooling and equipment, as well as assists with recommendation, specification and procurement of capital equipment.
• Documentation:
  Assist, prepare, develop, and implement documentation including work instructions, standard operating procedures, technical reports, change requests and formal test protocols and reports which comply with GMP and Quality requirements.
• Test Method Development:
  Review test methods during test method development and assists with test method validations.
• Testing:
  Ability to perform tests by following instructions from development engineers; collect data and record test results; analyzing test data, organizing, and presenting to peers and management when it is necessary in a reportable format. Assists in the execution of test protocols and procedures. Sets up test equipment for testing to protocols. Coordinates and manages testing of released protocols.
• Training:
  Provides process/test method training to manufacturing and QA personnel.
• Equipment:
  Perform and document equipment preventative maintenance and repairs on manufacturing equipment and systems per schedule. Ensure equipment is operating properly. Obtaining quotes for testing and calibration.
• Materials/Inventory:
  Generate purchase orders, coordinate orders and deliveries with vendors, R&D stock checking including monitoring material and test inventory, shipping materials/receiving materials including to/from sterilization, ship testing and conditioning for R&D products, preparing commercial invoices and liaising with internal Customs specialists.
• Supervisory/mentoring/coaching:
  Peer‑peer coaching other technicians on R&D based tasks and responsibilities. Oversee activities of junior technicians in concurrence with their Engineering supervisor.
• Fiscal:
  Reviews inventory reports, the transfer of R&D items to financial logs and relays information to R&D engineers/Project Leaders/R&D Managers for discussion with Finance.
• Ability to travel up to 10–25% of the time.

• Assist in the support of Manufacturing, Quality, Regulatory & R&D to ensure systems are compliant with all internal and external guidelines.
• Assist in design and process root cause analysis and support non‑conforming product and complaint investigations.

• Minimum of a High school Diploma/GED. Associates of Science degree in science, math or engineering preferred.
• Experience:
  
  Minimum 5‑8 years of industrial experience in R&D or process development, or Associates degree in science, math or engineering with 4 years related experience preferably in medical device or other regulated FDA/QSR and ISO environment.

• Minimum of a High school Diploma/GED. Associates of Science degree in science, math or engineering preferred.
• Experience:
  
  Minimum 5‑8 years of industrial experience in R&D or process development, or Associates degree in science, math or engineering with 4 years related experience preferably in medical device or other regulated FDA/QSR and ISO environment. Ability to work without supervision.
• Experience working in a laboratory and a controlled environment (cleanroom) with knowledge of GMP and GLP, and ability to operate lab equipment with practical and technical knowledge of common lab instrumentation and equipment…