Product Engineer- Mechanical

Position: Staff Product Engineer- Mechanical
About Cooper Surgical

Cooper Surgical is a leading fertility and women's healthcare company dedicated to putting time on the side of women, babies, and families at the healthcare moments that matter most in life. Cooper Surgical is at the forefront of delivering innovative assisted reproductive technology and genomic solutions that enhance the work of ART professionals to the benefit of families. We currently offer over 600 clinically relevant medical devices to women's healthcare providers, including testing and treatment options.

Cooper Surgical is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cooper Companies (Nasdaq: COO). Cooper Surgical, headquartered in Trumbull, CT, produces and markets a wide array of products and services for use by women's health care clinicians. More information can be found at

Product Engineering at Cooper Surgical means keeping our wide range of critical medical devices in the market, delivered on time and in compliance with international regulations. This means continuously improving our products for manufacturability, reliability and cost effectiveness, driving material changes due to supply chain issues

and retesting to the latest international standards.

This is a technical leadership opportunity assuming full ownership of product engineering work streams, subsystems and/or specific products and deliverables in the domains ranging from simple disposable devices to complex thermos-fluidic system and sophisticated robotic solutions involving IT connectivity, machine learning and AI.

Essential Functions & Accountabilities:

* TECHNICAL CONTRIBUTIONS AND INNOVATION

* Design and develop components and assemblies using first principles, applied mechanics, fluid and thermodynamics, mechatronics, and mechanisms as well as engineering best practices associated with CAD, GD&T, Modeling, and DFSS.

* Define testable design inputs (i.e., product requirements), develop design outputs (i.e., product specifications), define technical strategies for an adequate verification and validation approach. Drive successful verification and validation testing.

* Ideate, conceptualize, and build concepts and prototypes to aid incubation of new opportunities or down-select wining solutions for new product developments, upgrades, or improvements.

* Create simulation and mathematical models as appropriate to demonstrate functional feasibility of technical solution based on experimental, numerical, statistical, and/or finite-elements tools and techniques.

* Drive troubleshooting, coordinate root-cause analysis and devise solutions and approaches for solving technical problems (solution gameplan) and overcoming development challenges in an inclusive and collaborative fashion.

* Develop test methods and fixtures for products, components, and systems simulation, evaluation, and verification testing.

* PROJECT DELIVERING

* Deliver agreed project outcomes on-time and on-budget per project plan.

* Scope, plan, and manage execution of assigned project tasks, work streams, and deliverables ensuring full alignment with the overall project plan and business objectives.

* Train, mentor, and provide technical directions to junior engineers and team members as appropriate to ensure that desirable business outcomes are achieved.

* Manage execution and relationships with external partners, engineering consulting firms and vendors.

* ORGANIZATIONAL AND PROCESS EFFECTIVENESS

* Aid and drive an effective cross-functional collaboration ensuring timely and efficient delivery of target business outcomes.

* Contribute to the assessment of new opportunities, acquisition targets, competitive products, and Intellectual Properties (IP's) to aid competitiveness and differentiation of our business offerings.

* Support or drive scoping, project planning and product requirement definition for new product development, upgrades, or line extensions as appropriate.

* Select, evaluate, and implement new tools, techniques, and best practices to ensure state-of-the-art product development capabilities and best practices.

* Effectively and timely communicate (written and verbal) progress status updates and way forward game-plans associated with project issues, challenges and accomplishments to team members, cross-functional partners, stakeholders, and managers.

* SAFETY, EFFICACY, AND COMPLIANCE

* Drive medical devices design control compliance by ensuring that all applicable safety, quality and regulatory guidelines and policies are followed to develop safe and effective products.

* Maintain technical documentation for project and products as applicable per company quality standards, policies, and procedures and well as engineering best practices and functional excellence requirements.

* Minimum BS w/ 8+ or preferably MS w/ 5+ years of combined education and experience in development of medical devices or related fields.

* Mechanical or biomedical engineering experience or combination with other related fields in medical device or related industries is required.

* Cross-disciplinary…