Senior Research Development Engineer (m/w/d)

Occlutech is a leading specialist provider of minimally invasive cardiac devices, with a mission to improve the quality of life for people with heart conditions.

The vision is to become a global leading specialist provider in cardiac devices, addressing congenital heart defects, stroke prevention, and heart failure.

Occlutech has a broad and proven portfolio, based on proprietary technology, and over 200 patents with more than 139,000 products sold.

The company markets and sells its products in circa 85 countries and has around 320 employees.

Position : Senior R&D Engineer

Location : Onsite (Jena, Germany)

The Occlutech R&D team is responsible for the innovative development of new cardiac implant devices that enable physicians all over the world to save human lives every day.

This motivated team of people works together and always focus on helping our customers to save and improve patient’s lives with innovative and highest quality products.

Your primary responsibilities as Senior R&D Engineer are innovation and new product development as well as common maintenance activities.

This will include working together closely with Physicians, Marketing and Sales and all internal functions at the Company's international sites in Germany, Turkey and Sweden.

Aufgaben

Your work will focus on :

• Development of novel technologies and devices in close collaboration with physicians and external partners with special focus on design and procedure development
• Post market and maintenance engineering
• Performing design verification / validation studies, bench testing and technical documentation according to international medical device guidelines and regulations

Qualifikation

We are looking for a candidate, who

• holds a Master or PhD degree in an engineering field, preferably in biomechanical or biomedical engineering
• has extensive experience (at least 7 years) in an engineering department of a manufacturing company in a highly regulated environment, preferably R&D in a medical device company in the area of cardiology (class III devices)
• is experienced in the whole development process for medical devices, starting with an idea, creating requirements, design, V&V tests, up to providing relevant documentation for the submission to the notified body
• is an experienced team player who likes challenges
• acts like a mentor and coach to his teammembers and values knowledge transfer
• is fluent in written and spoken English (level C1), German language skills are a plus
• has already proven leadership experience in his field
• has good organization and time management skills
• is proactive and has a hands-on-mentality and open mindset
• is open to international travels (up to 2 times a month)

Benefits

Our benefits for you :

• A secure job in the medical device industry in a family-friendly working environment
• An interesting work scope in a growing international company
• Comprehensive onboarding and training plan in the first 6 months
• Company wide Mentoring program
• Good work-life balance through 30 days of vacation, flexible working hours and hybrid, family-friendly working time models
• Employer-financed retirement insurance
• Team building, employee and company events
• Easy access to the office on the Beutenberg Campus with an attached canteen
• Healthy work culture with a fruit basket, tea, water and coffee as well as regular team sporting events

Ready to apply?

We look forward to receiving your application (cover letter and CV).

Contact

Kristin Spanka People & Culture Business Partner

Telephone +49 3641 508 385

Occlutech GmbH Winzerlaer Strasse 2- 07745 Jena