Job Summary

Job Description

Responsibilities:

• Manage multi-disciplinary product development teams to research, design, and develop new products and technologies. Ensure that deadlines and product goals are met.

• Collaborate with customers, quality, regulatory, legal, manufacturers, and divisional personnel to ensure new product designs meet all product requirements and experience a successful launch.

• Develop design specifications, manage multiple project timelines, and balance corporate priorities for product development projects to ensure that deadlines and goals are met.

• Collaborate with product divisions to proactively identify product development opportunities, establish innovation pipelines, and align product development efforts with long-term divisional strategies.

• Coordinate and support all phases of product development from ideation to 510k application to product launch.

• Review existing products and recommend improvements based on existing complaints, risk analyses, manufacturer feedback, cost saving opportunities, etc.

• Support design transfer to manufacturing sites and new product implementation process.

• Collaborate with domestic and international manufacturers to validate designs and troubleshoot problems that arise.

• Coordinate product design and laboratory teams to ensure all design inputs are verified and validated.

• Contribute to new product designs, prototype generation/evaluation, and review technical drawings/specifications.

• Work with legal to design and implement new intellectual property.

• This is a high-level individual contributor role - management responsibilities limited to leading day-to-day activities and outcomes of a group of employees. May be involved in hiring staff, recommending pay increases, performing performance reviews, training and development of staff, estimating personnel needs, assigning work, meeting completion dates, interpreting and ensuring consistent application of organizational policies.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, biomedical engineering, electrical engineering, or software engineering

• At least 7 years of experience in product design.

• Experience with Solidworks/3D modeling software and prototype fabrication.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Certified Solidworks Professional.

• At least 10 years of experience in product design.

• Experience testing and development of polymers, textiles, medical equipment/devices, etc within in the medical device industry.

• Experience with medical device requirements (Class I-II), design controls, risk assessments, and the 510k process.

• Experience designing and launching class II medical device to market. - Experience with project management, Microsoft project, and leading multi-disciplinary teams.

• Invented and recognized on at least one patent.

• Position requires travel up to 10% of the time for business purposes (domestic and international).

• Knowledge of injection molding and other manufacturing processes.

Benefits - Medline is committed to offering competitive benefits and a variety of choices to best meet the needs of you and your family. For employees scheduled to work at least 30 hours per week, this includes health and well-being, financial fitness, career development, paid time off and more. Employees scheduled to work less than 30 hours per week can participate in the 401(k) plan, access the Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Employee Resource Groups (ERG) and Medline Service Corps. For a more comprehensive list of our benefits, please click here.

Every day, we're focused on building a more diverse and inclusive company, one that recognizes, values and respects the differences we all bring to the workplace. From doing what's right to delivering business results, together, we're better. Explore our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion page here.

Medline Industries, LP is an equal opportunity employer. Medline evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.