Job Description

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Job Summary

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Zimmer Biomet is a world leader in musculoskeletal health solutions. Our team members are part of a company with a heritage of leadership, a focus on shaping the future, and a mission dedicated to alleviating pain and improving the quality of life for people around the world.

This is an intermediate level position for an engineer with prior experience in a professional position. In this position, the individual conducts detailed engineering work related to design, development, and processing of implants and instruments. Position will lead small scope projects as a project leader or portions of larger scope projects as a core team member. Project management responsibilities require sufficient professional expertise to assure competence as an experienced engineer as well as interpersonal skills required to work with other company disciplines. Work is expected to encompass both the development of new products and maintenance of existing products.

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Principal Duties and Responsibilities

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* Leads the development of new products.
* Identifies all tasks required to complete project assignments according to Design Control procedures.
* Prepares work plans outlining estimated manpower requirements and development costs.
* Recommends project budget and schedule to carry out programs on a timely basis.
* Assists or leads in the effort to remediate historical design documentation into compliance with current Zimmer Biomet procedures
* Maintain essential records and documentation per ZPO 12.900.
* Designs for manufacturability, inspectability, reliability, and optimum cost
* Participates in root cause analysis for problem solving
* Contributes to generation of a comprehensive protocol for testing/analyzing the product
* Coordinating product evaluation with surgeon
* Prepares definitive new product specifications or modifies existing specifications
* Generates or updates design assurance documentation for the product
* Completes stress analysis on new or existing designs

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Expected Areas of Competence

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* Full working knowledge of and moderate level of experience with new product development
* Demonstrated ability to methodically investigate, determine appropriate solution and resolve problems using current technology
* Ability to develop project schedule and assess cross functional teams progress on assignments relative to project schedule
* Ability to process customer complaints, engineering changes and nonconforming product, and make recommendations based upon business principles
* Professional, concise, tactful and sensitive in communications. Accomplishes objectives when communicating with internal personnel, and external customers and vendors.
* Demonstrated good written and verbal communication skills including presentation skills
* Working knowledge of drafting standards and geometric dimensioning and tolerancing
* Assures preproduction quality requirements are met
* Microsoft Office Suite and Project
* Must be able to work with all levels of employees, including hourly production employees through senior management.
* Must have a thorough knowledge of ISO, QSR and other relevant FDA requirements as applied to medical device development, manufacturing and quality.
* Must possess excellent written and oral communication skills and the demonstrated ability to communicate with individuals of varying backgrounds.

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Education/Experience Requirements

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* B.S. in degree from an ABET accredited school (or global equivalent) in an engineering or science discipline, as preferred by the specific department, and sufficient professional experience (3 years plus) is required.

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Travel Requirements

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* Up to 5%

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Additional Information

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EOE M/W/Vet/Disability.

At Zimmer Biomet, we believe in The Power of Us, which means that we are stronger together. We are committed to creating an environment where every team member feels included, respected, empowered, and celebrated.

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