Sr. R&D Engineer

Position: Sr. R&D Engineer

Location: San Diego, CA

Duration: 7+ Months Contract

Total Hours/week: 40.00
pay rate-$40-55/hr

1st Shift

Client: Medical Device Company

Employment Type: Contract on W2 (Need US Citizens Or GC Holders Only)

No H1B’s

Onsite in Brea required

Description:
Candidate must know that this is approximately a 7-month assignment at this time.

Extension isn't guaranteed but candidate will be reviewed for potential full-time hire.
Work hours are flexible, but meetings generally get scheduled at normal 9am-5pm times.

Must haves on the resume that demonstrate the following:
1) Team leadership and coordination experience.
2) Plastic Tube Extrusion Experience.
3) “Can do attitude” and history of rapidly driving projects, milestones and activities.
4) Ability to critically dissect problems, ideate creative options, and communication that drives objective team decisions.
5) Ability to plan before execution Onsite work for best practice lab utilization.

Remote work for online collaborations, analyses, and documentation. Research and Development Engineering is required for developing and implementing new products through adherence to established design control processes and good engineering and documentation practices.

Candidates should also demonstrate:
• Working knowledge of Engineering principles and application in technical problem solving.
• Working knowledge of product design and development.
• Working knowledge of plastic extrusion process and material properties.
• Working knowledge of design control process.
• Ability to translates customer needs into design inputs. Incorporate principles of design for quality, manufacturing, supply continuity, and cost.
• Ability to create and test prototypes.
• Ability to perform tests, analyze and solves technical problems with moderate guidance.
• Utilization of basic statistical techniques and design of experiments with moderate guidance.
• History of knowledge and skills in their current job family; still acquiring / expanding fundamental knowledge and higher-level skills.
• History of applying knowledge and skills to a variety of standard activities.

A successful engineer will immerse themselves in an intravenous set development team to own one or more product subsystems. Through 3 months of concept development, an engineer will quickly understand internal and external customer needs, develop prototypes, conduct feasibility and benchmark studies, facilitate concept selection among a cross-functional core team, and communicate results and recommendations to influence the overall direction of the team.

• BS degree in engineering is required (Mechanical or Biomedical Engineering preferred).
• 5+ years of engineering experience is required.
• Preferably has experience in high volume disposable medical devices.
• Preferably has experience working with US and European extrusion design and related process development.