Engineering Manager - NPI & Test
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Blatchford is an innovative, multi-award-winning, global, manufacturer of some of the world's most advanced prosthetic technology, bespoke seating solutions and orthotic devices.
Our evidence-based approach and commitment to continuously challenge possibilities ensures our mobility solutions prioritise the wellbeing and long-term health of our users.
Through innovation, science, technology, and maintaining a clear focus on people, we make mobility possible.
We have a new and exciting opportunity for an Engineering Manager to join our dynamic R&D team, focusing on NPI and Testing.
The role
As Engineering Manager - NPI & Test, you will lead a team of NPI and Test Engineers within our Product Lifecycle Management function. You will drive delivery of project-specific objectives, whilst ensuring documentation is complete, compliant and aligned with best practice in testing, Design for Manufacture (DfM), Design for Assembly (DfA), Design for Test (DfT) and Design for Service (DfS).
Key duties.
- Ownership of test activities, from definition through completion, ensuring alignment with internal procedures, standards, and regulatory expectations.
- Prioritising and scheduling testing task to meet project and business objectives.
- Mentoring, managing and developing team members through regular reviews and ongoing feedback.
- Contributing to product roadmap planning, ensuring test strategy and resource needs are represented.
- Collaborating cross functionally to achieve optimal design, quality, and schedule outcomes.-functionally to achieve optimal design, quality, and schedule outcomes.
- Reviewing and approving technical documentation in accordance with the QMS.
- Participating in design reviews for active projects and provide test focused feedback.-focused feedback.
- Supporting the CAPA process, contributing to root cause analysis and driving quality improvements.-cause analysis and driving quality improvements.
- Reviewing proposed design changes and overseeing test impact assessment for Change Requests.
- Leading NPI tasks within projects, ensuring readiness throughout the stage gate process
- Ensuring test feedback loops (e.g., early prototyping insights, DfM, DfA, DfT and DfS considerations, production test requirements) are integrated into the NPI process.
- Overseeing creation and approval of production test requirements, working with operations to establish scalable NPI test solutions.
- Supporting post market surveillanceinvestigations and helping bring swift effective resolutions
What are we looking for?
To be considered for this Engineering Manager - NPI & Test opportunity, you will have the following:
Essential skills
- MSc in Mechanical Engineering
- BSc/BEng in Materials or Science related discipline
- Proven track record of managing testing teams.
- Extensive testing experience, preferably within the medical device or other regulated industry
- Excellent knowledge of System Engineering principles, standards and best practices.
- Experience with MDD/MDR
- Experience of applying ISO 13485 and ISO 14971
- Familiarity with verification management tools i.e. JAMA
- Natural leader, able to share vision and motivate people
- Drive for continuous improvement
- Team player with a positive "can do" attitude
- Ability to handle multiple, challenging, infrastructure areas of responsibility
- Excellent verbal, written and presentation communication skills
What can we offer you?
As Engineering Manager - NPI & Test, you will receive the following:
Benefits
- Highly completive salary
- Early Friday finish
- Flexible, hybrid working
- 25 days holiday (rising with service)
- Option to purchase additional annual leave
- Pension
- Discounted shopping and leisure activities
- Health cash plan
- Cycle to work scheme
- Opportunity to be part of an award-winning organisation with a culture that centres around our core values; courage, learning, integrity, collaboration, and innovation
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