Job Description Summary

Job Description

Position Summary
The Associate Staff Engineer is a technical leadership role within a sustaining engineering team who will own, lead
and support the end-to-end Design and engineering deliverables and solutions for high-volume medical device
products right from Design and Development to Verification and Validation activities. (S)he, working with the local
and global stakeholders, will deliver relevant solutions to new and existing products through design calculations,
risk-retirement using first principles engineering, technical analyses and verification of the design. The Associate
Staff Engineer will learn and utilize BD's stage gate Global Product Development System and use DFM/DFSS and/or
other relevant engineering tools to deliver high quality, robust, cost effective solutions in partnership with crossfunctional
teams.
Educational Background
- Full time Degree in a relevant engineering field is required (i.e., Mechanical, Industrial & Production, Chemical,
Materials Engineering)
- Masters and PhD in Engineering is highly preferred.
Professional Experience
Minimum 12 years of experience in engineering/technical field, with 3 years demonstrated project and team
leadership, preferably in the medical device industry with successful track record of sustaining existing products
and/or driving cost improvement initiatives.
Job Responsibilities
General Function
- Accountable for the technical success of the product and ensures the product solution offerings reflects the
agreed upon “must-haves” for commercial success.
- Identify the best tools and approaches to effectively solve engineering problems to develop/optimize designs by
leveraging appropriate mix of first principles / analytical, computational, and experimental methods.
- Practice technical excellence and share best practices and lessons learned across the organization.
- Lead and own the design efforts over the continuum of product development, life cycle management, sustenance
engineering and cost improvement initiatives.
- Remove obstacles and provide technical direction and mentorship to Design, Development and Verification
Validation Teams.
- Develop technical design and / or verification strategy independently or in collaboration with a larger team.
- Ensure design control best practices with compliance to BD quality policies/procedures and applicable regulatory
requirements are adopted across projects.
- Own the design and/ or verification deliverables of the project assigned.
- Develop, verify and validate test methods and prototypes as needed.
- Execute Risk Management activities to ensure that design and process shortcomings are identified and
appropriately addressed.
- Optimize product design, material selection, product features, process design and human factors based on the
project needs.
- Ensure compliance with all local, state, federal, and BD safety regulations, policies, and procedures.
- Drive the right culture in the organization in line with BD Values.
Project management
- Own the technical plan, execution and effectively manage technical risks. Ensure high quality solutions are
provided to the customers in a timely manner.
Persuasive Communication
- Clear and effective communication of technical solutions / risks across all levels of the organization
- Escalate issues for awareness, create and drive a resolution plan
- Drive cross functional (i.e., Marketing, Quality, Supply chain, Regulatory, Manufacturing Technology, Operations,
Cytotoxicity, Sterilization teams etc.) technical decision making in areas of uncertainty or ambiguity
- Uses influential leadership to resolve project-related issues/challenges
Organizational Leadership
Quality systems processes: Implement best practices of quality systems processes including design controls and
change control.
Technology transfer: Ensure efficient and effective transition from research to development to global
manufacturing locations.

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