Are you a Principal Mechanical Engineer ready to lead and innovate? Our client seeks a driven, results-oriented professional to spearhead complex projects and translate product vision into tangible realities. This role offers the opportunity to leverage your extensive technical expertise and make a significant impact on the development of cutting-edge medical devices.

The Principal Mechanical Engineer will design cutting-edge operating room equipment, including patient support structures, electromechanical, pneumatic, and hydraulic actuators, and related accessories. This individual will drive product innovation through creative problem-solving and lead product concepts from inception to production. This role requires maintaining up-to-date knowledge of competitive technologies, including medical, technical, manufacturing, and materials developments, and ensuring meticulous design history documentation.

This is a full-time non-hybrid on-site position in Union City.

We are looking for you if you can:

• Design metal, plastic, and carbon composite patient support structures for use in operating rooms meeting requirements for stiffness, strength, stability, reliability, and cost.
• Design user-actuated mechanisms and electro-mechanical drive trains to articulate these structures to optimize patient positioning, surgical access, and applied traction.
• Work with a diverse group of motivated individuals within the mechanical engineering team as well as peers in other R&D, manufacturing, clinical, marketing, and service teams.

Responsibilities:

• Design metal, plastic, and carbon composite patient support structures, ensuring they meet rigorous requirements for stiffness, strength, stability, reliability, and cost.
• Develop user-actuated mechanisms and electromechanical drive trains to optimize patient positioning, surgical access, and applied traction.
• Work independently or within cross-functional teams to design, develop, and test products that align with system specifications.
• Collaborate with New Product Introduction (NPI) teams to optimize product designs for manufacturing.
• Evaluate field feedback from Service and Marketing to enhance product performance.
• Maintain ongoing communication with Manufacturing and Marketing to address and improve product needs.
• Continuously contribute to product improvement and cost reduction initiatives.
• Participate in vendor selection, sustaining engineering, QC inspection, and material review board activities.
• Provide technical guidance and support to other engineers and designers, and lead projects as required.
• Maintain clear and effective verbal and written communication.
• Adhere to internal Quality System policies, procedures, and work instructions, including relevant external regulations (e.g., 21 CFR Part 820) and applicable International Standards.

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