Engineer

Illinois  ‐ Onsite
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Description

Primary responsibility:
  • The primary responsibility is in plastic co-injection molding process and polymer melt extrusion process, and their mold/tool design to support for existing and new and pipeline device delivery for device-drug combination products.
  • Major responsibility in device plastic molding, co-injection molding and co-extrusion processes with the design of mold/tool from the small scale to the large scale of commercial production by utilizing GMP and ISO standards, and also testing for high volume productions to support biopharmaceutical products.
  • Partnering with third party manufacturing (TPM) from the small-scale molding with mold/tool design to scale up for the commercial production in the co-injection/co-extrusion and their mold/tool design for scale up for commercial applications.
Major Responsibilities:
  • Responsible for medical device part co-injection and co-extrusion processes, and their mold/tool design and scientific molding to support processing optimization for high volume injection and extrusion processes
  • Responsible for the molding/extrusion process, polymer material and equipment integration to develop process and broaden the process space of co-injection and co-extrusion processes
  • Responsible to partner with TPM to design mold/tool and molding/extrusion process with the selected materials and injection and co-injection molding machine for process optimization
  • Responsible to work with design engineers to design and develop the part design and conduct the molding trials to optimize the part design, mold/tool design and molding and co-injection process through quality by design to meet the functionality and manufacturability requirements
Skills/Requirements:
  • Experience in part molding in co-injection and co-extrusion processes with scientific molding approach to broaden the process space to meet part dimension specs and tolerance ranges
  • Experience in Moldflow analysis software and with polymer material properties to assess and predict the part quality in terms of part dimension, warpage, and built stress mitigation to optimized the part quality
  • Hand-on experience in co-injection and co-extrusion processes and in partnership with TPM for the part develop and manufacture for multiple layers of co-injection and co-extrusion parts
  • Hand-on experience in both melt extrusion and injection molding is preferred
  • Experience in polymer, plasticized polymer and thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) co-injection and melt extrusion and their mold/tool design and development for scale up to commercial production
  • Experience in system integration of design, materials, process, equipment and assembly for medical device and experience in device functionality testing of components and assembly
  • Experience in partnering with third party manufacturing for production to develop the mold/tool and their design trials for part functionality and manufacturability applications.
  • BS with preferred 5-10 years of experience;
  • Or MS with preferred 3-10 years of experience;
  • Or Ph.D. with preferred 2-8 years of experience in Molding/Extrusion Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Material Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Biomechanical Engineering, or Biomedical Engineering.
  • In addition to the job description: 2 shot injection molding experience is required!
  • Previous Pharma experience not required (Previous Aerospace or Automotive background a plus)
  • Candidates ideally will have 10+ years experience
  • Need to have plastics and injection experience (Molding, Assembly, Hardening)
  • Candidates should be familiar with materials and melting points.
  • Build mold, develop mold processes, 2 part injection machine, need to know machine parts.
Start date
n.a
From
Synectics
Published at
14.04.2016
Project ID:
1110402
Contract type
Freelance
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