Job Title: R&D Sustaining Manager
Location: Ballybrit, Galway
Benefits:
* Excellent salary
* Bonus
* Pension
* Healthcare
* Opportunity to grow your career with a hugely exciting Medical Device organisation.
Company Overview:
Our client is a Medical Device company who has recently been acquired by a multinational, a global leader in neurovascular care.
The company invests in its people and takes great pride in providing a positive work environment that respects diversity, supports wellbeing, and embraces innovation.
About the Role:
R&D Sustaining Manager
The R&D Sustaining Manager will be responsible for managing design changes and sustaining activities, providing technical leadership and judgment to a team of engineers in the life cycle of a portfolio of devices to treat ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke.
Key Responsibilities:
* Responsible for R&D (LCM) activities for the portfolio of products.
* R&D team leadership, with responsibility for team structure, team development, and performance management.
* Identify critical project tasks, define project strategy, and set team priorities.
* Develop detailed project goals, plans, and budget.
* Report progress across the organisation.
* Organizing and prioritizing activities, including escalations, in collaboration with key functions and aligning on deliverables and timing.
* Manage interfaces between other functions, especially Supply Chain, Quality and Regulatory, to plan and support R&D activities required to support product lifecycle management.
* This includes working with:
o Quality and Design Assurance in risk identification and assessment of any design and process changes, R&D representative for re-certification and vendor audits.
o Supply Chain and Manufacturing in developing and implementing cost improvement programs with external manufacturing partners.
o Support R&D department with customer (physician) visitors in terms of presenting on the development history of our product portfolio.
o Support customer complaint technical investigations and site representative for review meetings.
o R&D point-person to review complaint trending, alert and action levels.
o Contribute to the cultural development of the R&D department by identifying opportunities for improvements in ways of working, and proactively implementing ideas for continuous improvement.
Requirements:
* Honours degree in Engineering or Science (desired) with strong technical acumen.
* Significant experience in an R&D or product sustaining role in the medical device industry.
* Team leadership experience required.
* Ability to work within design control systems and processes.
What Awaits You:
* This is an opportunity to work with a ground-breaking biomedical operation, part of a company with an excellent record in employee continuous professional development and business improvement.
* An opportunity to be part of a global market leader.
* A dynamic and inspiring working environment.
* Opportunities to work on challenging projects and assignments.
* Possibilities for further personal and professional development/education.
* Excellent benefits