applications

· Work from basic clinical need to device concept to prototype

· Will interface with physicians and distill their needs into product requirements and concepts

· May lead a small design team and develop design development path to achieve project goals, alternatively may work largely alone to develop concepts and prototypes

· Will apply knowledge of materials and processes to come up with working designs

· May be required to progress a project from concept phase into commercialization phase and play a key role there on the product / process / engineering / leadership fronts

· Will need to interface effectively with team members and other staff, both in plant and abroad, to achieve goals

Qualifications & Experience:

· Qualified to degree level in engineering, science or related discipline

· Medical device development experience, ideally in interventional vascular devices

· Strong design skills

· Proven track record in innovative product design, development and implementation

· Experience interfacing with physicians and reducing feedback to device concepts

· Project leadership skills and experience desirable

· Ability to work across full spectrum of product development process

· Experience of medical device design procedures

· Broad biomedical materials and processing knowledge

· Experience in the design and application of stent-graft covering materials such as ePTFE and its alternatives is highly desirable.

· Good team skills - a high level of enthusiasm and motivation, and the ability to take input from others and synthesize into a coherent whole