Description
Summary -Applies intensive and diversified knowledge of design principles, practices and implementation in complex systems and assignments. General responsibilities include design concept generation, participating in design reviews, development and testing to assess performance against design specification; reliability testing, and assessment of system interactions. Makes independent decisions. Assist in the development of manufacturing processes and troubleshooting issues to determine root cause and possible engineering solutions.
Key Features -
- Consistently uses company concepts, policies and procedures, familiar with and follows standard practices.
- Projects are assigned with defined scope and goals.
- Direction is provided by more senior engineering staff, management or project leader.
- Participates in efforts to define new components, products or processes and identify technical challenges.
- Makes suggestions to improve work processes.
- Creates potentially patentable components for systems, or processes.
- Plans and executes assigned projects; utilizes thorough technical and theoretical understanding of numerous techniques.
- Analyzes data, evaluates results, forms conclusions and provides/implements process or document improvements.
- Applies advanced engineering knowledge to projects.
- Executes experiments; participates in experimental design.
- Utilizes DOE where appropriate.
- Participates in technical team activities.
- Shares knowledge and expertise with others.
- Participates in project planning, process updates and contributes to experimental design.
- Prepares and delivers presentations of project results to own or other groups.
- Monitors work to ensure quality, and continuously promote Quality First Time.
Additional Skills -
- Experience of formal requirements management is a must-have. Typical associated tasks are requirements elicitation, requirements tracing, test coverage analysis, trace matrix generation, writing requirements and specification generation .
- Experience of risk analysis is a must-have. Typical associated tasks are hazard analysis, fault tree analysis, FMEA, error handling or error impact analysis.
- Experience with a requirements management tool (such as DOORS or HP Quality Center) is not essential, but would be typical in a candidate with experience in formal requirements management. The tool used at VMS is HP Quality Center.
- Previous experience of complex system development, including fluidics, robotics, software, thermal, electrical, mechanical and biochemistry elements is preferred.
- Previous experience of engineering on medical device/IVD/FDA-regulated products is preferred.