Jobs at Smith & Nephew

Sources and engages passive candidates for challenging and high-demand roles, with emphasis on blue-collar hiring. Builds talent pipelines through Boolean searches, LinkedIn, job boards, referrals, networking, social media, and recruiting events. Conducts initial phone screens, coordinates with hiring managers and recruiters, supports diversity outreach, maintains applicant tracking data and compliance documentation, and provides recruiting market insights and analytics.

Research and evaluate AI and machine learning models for orthopedic, wound care, and sports medicine products. Clean and structure datasets, design feature encodings, develop and train models, validate performance using statistical methods, and create interfaces for model exploration. The role collaborates within a multidisciplinary R&D environment and requires strong programming, data science, statistical analysis, and communication skills.

Leads regional sales of CORI robotic systems, orthopedic implants, and consumables to hospitals. Develops and presents complex financial programs, manages capital sales funnels and forecasts, supports key accounts, collaborates cross-functionally, and drives hospital and surgeon adoption. Mentors a Robotics Development Manager and partners with sales, finance, distribution, healthcare systems, and financing teams. The role requires frequent travel within the assigned territory and occasional national travel.

Leads the global compliance program through strategic initiatives, process improvement, governance, communications, training, reporting, and effectiveness measurement. Partners with Compliance, Finance, People, and other functions to deliver multiyear roadmaps, improve compliance tools and resources, influence stakeholders, and strengthen organizational awareness and operations.

Leads the architecture, delivery, governance, and support of SAP manufacturing and quality solutions across the global Plan-to-Inventory value stream. Oversees production planning, shop floor execution, quality management, inventory, plant maintenance, integrations, global rollouts, and S/4HANA transformation. Ensures architectural compliance, scalability, performance, validation, and solution quality while leading internal teams, vendors, stakeholders, and cross-functional initiatives in a regulated medical technology environment.

Processes direct sales and consignment orders, returns, loan billings, customer inquiries, invoice disputes, master data, and product complaints. Provides bilingual English and French customer service and sales support while meeting order accuracy, handling, and complaint KPIs. The role requires effective prioritization, problem-solving, communication, teamwork, and adaptability in a fast-paced environment.

Leads manufacturing process, equipment, fixture, and tooling development for Class I and II medical devices from new product introduction through commercialization. Responsibilities include process validation, scale-up, continuous improvement, design for manufacturability, production support, automation, equipment qualification, documentation, and mentoring engineers and production staff. Collaborates with R&D, Quality, Supply Chain, Commercial, Production, and external partners in a regulated manufacturing environment.

Supports real-time computer vision and video software for surgical navigation. Develops and tests image processing, tracking, calibration, geometric computation, augmented-reality overlays, and GPU-accelerated features. The intern prototypes algorithms, documents work, participates in code reviews and agile practices, and learns regulated medical-device software development, verification, and traceability while completing a defined engineering project.

Participate in a 12-week systems engineering internship supporting medical device verification. Generate and execute manual and automated tests, perform exploratory and integration testing, document protocols and results, report defects, and present project conclusions to leadership. Work with test engineers and verification managers on Sports Medicine research and development projects.

Electrical Engineering Co-Op supporting medical visualization product development and proof-of-concept projects. Responsibilities include researching emerging technologies, developing and testing product features, analyzing circuits, testing embedded designs, documenting work under quality systems, and presenting results to senior leadership. Candidates should be enrolled in an Electrical or Computer Engineering program, have circuit theory and analog/digital design knowledge, and preferably have embedded systems, schematic/layout, or prior internship experience.

Mechanical Engineering Intern supporting medical device R&D projects in sports medicine. Responsibilities include 3D CAD modeling, product design, prototyping, fixture and tooling development, verification and validation testing, data analysis, and engineering documentation. The intern will collaborate with engineering, manufacturing, and cross-functional teams while gaining exposure to finite element analysis, biomechanical testing, manufacturing operations, and regulated product development.

Develop and prototype AI agents and agentic workflows for software engineering use cases. Build Generative AI and LLM applications, RAG solutions, integrations with engineering systems and data sources, and automated evaluation methods. Apply software engineering practices such as testing, source control, documentation, and secure development. Document experiments and present findings to leadership while collaborating with mentors and cross-functional teams.

Supports electrical and software engineers in researching, developing, and testing next-generation sports medicine medical products. The intern completes assigned R&D projects, collaborates cross-functionally, presents project outcomes to senior leadership, and creates quality-system documentation. The 12-week program emphasizes embedded systems, software and electrical design, testing, computer vision, image processing, and potential AI or machine learning applications in medical technology.

Lead product cybersecurity across medical devices, connected technologies, digital solutions, and software. Define security requirements, maintain threat models and risk registers, lead vulnerability and penetration testing, integrate automated security tools, mature secure development practices, support incident response, and provide technical leadership to regulators, customers, auditors, and security researchers. Collaborate across IT, R&D, compliance, and other business teams.

Supports U.S. and Canadian trade compliance through customs analytics, tariff classification, country-of-origin assessments, entry audits, post-entry filings, duty recovery, restricted-party screening, and customs clearance backup. Develops dashboards and reporting, identifies compliance risks and savings opportunities, collaborates cross-functionally, and drives process improvements. Requires strong knowledge of customs regulations, financial analysis, Excel, and trade compliance operations.

Drives sales and growth of advanced wound management products across New Zealand hospital accounts. Develops strategic account plans, identifies clinical and market opportunities, builds relationships with healthcare decision-makers, and expands adoption through consultative selling. Monitors performance using Power BI, manages opportunities, executes growth initiatives, and partners with hospital, marketing, and market development teams. The role requires substantial time in hospital accounts and knowledge of wound care, medical sales, and New Zealand healthcare systems.

Supports North American customs operations, including import clearance, entry auditing, customs broker management, HTS classification, country-of-origin determinations, C-TPAT activities, export controls, sanctions compliance, and restricted-party screening. The role investigates discrepancies, maintains audit-ready records, coordinates with brokers and cross-functional teams, supports corrective actions, and handles routine trade compliance matters independently while escalating complex issues.

Leads sustaining and global registration projects for the CORI Surgical System. Responsibilities include engineering analysis, design, testing, quality improvements, supply chain support, obsolescence changes, cost reduction, regulatory compliance, requirements development, verification and validation, manufacturing transfer, GUI testing, and product literature support. Collaborates with manufacturing, engineering, regulatory, quality, project management, and marketing teams.

Leads the strategic relationship between IT and Global Operations, Advanced Manufacturing Engineering, Strategy, and ESG. Develops technology roadmaps, identifies process improvement opportunities, prioritizes enhancement requests, and guides initiatives through delivery. Manages system escalations and service disruptions while maintaining operational excellence. Requires extensive IT or supply chain experience, business relationship or IT program leadership, knowledge of infrastructure, ERP integration, ITIL, and emerging technologies such as IoT.

Designs scalable, secure Enterprise AI and GenAI solutions across manufacturing, MedTech, commercial, and procurement domains. Responsibilities include architecture blueprints, system integrations, AI governance, responsible AI controls, solution assurance, stakeholder collaboration, vendor delivery oversight, and embedded assistant initiatives. The role guides AI use-case discovery, deployment, adoption, monitoring, and continuous improvement while ensuring regulatory, privacy, cybersecurity, auditability, and operational-readiness requirements are met.