Salary Range:
$70,125.00 - $116,875.00Job Description:
Confluent Medical Technologies is a financially healthy and rapidly growing medical device company whose employees are passionate about providing life-saving solutions to our customers through a collaborative and high-impact work environment. Our moderate size, diversity of technologies, and broad material science capabilities provide an environment in which our employees can develop broad skill sets and directly influence product development and manufacturing outcomes
We’re looking for a Process Development Engineer, Textiles to join our Warwick, RI team. As a uniquely qualified candidate, you will:
Position Summary:
· Design and develop prototype medical textile based structures and processes to demonstrate feasibility for meeting customer needs.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Works independently under the direction of the textile R&D prototype engineering manager.
- Interact with customers, medical device engineers to understand the unmet needs and offer solutions.
- Selects preliminary materials, manufacturing techniques in developing textile components and related value added processes
- Interact with outside vendors, suppliers, and consultants.
- Provide technical support to sales, customers and operations
- Assists in the selection of new technologies, equipment, and processes.
- Assists in the development of new processes and capabilities.
Education and /or Experience
- BS or MS in Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Textile Engineering or equivalent.
- Minimum of 2-3 years developing textile solution for new products with focus on front end prototype/feasibility. Ideally covering braiding, knitting, weaving, and non-woven.
- Hands on aptitude to dive in and develop prototype samples/processes to demonstrate feasibility. Must be capable of handling multiple projects/tasks at the same time.
- Have passion and enthusiasm for innovation.
- Proven problem solving skills
- Minimum of 3-5 years’ experience in a Textile industry. Medical device preferred.
- Experience working with bio-absorbable polymer based implantable medical devices preferred.
- Experience in the cardiovascular and/or orthopedic implantable medical device industry preferred.
- Knowledge of Design/Process Excellence (Six Sigma black belt certified is a plus) preferred.
Confluent Medical Technologies is dedicated to working collaboratively with our customers, taking their projects from rapid prototype into high volume production. Our unparalleled technical expertise, proven experience and partnership with our clients has allowed us to perfect the process necessary to deliver world-class medical devices through innovative material science, engineering, and manufacturing. Our primary capabilities include: Nitinol components and tubing, balloon expandable stents and catheters, complex catheters, biomedical textiles, and high precision polymer tubing. We take pride in our position as the leader in the medical technology space and are driven by a passion to create products that our clients have envisioned for their customers.
We regret that we are unable to sponsor employment visas or consider individuals on time-limited visa status for this position.
Confluent Medical Technologies is an equal opportunity employer.
Only qualified candidates will be contacted.
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What We Do
Confluent Medical Technologies applies materials science to MedTech innovation. Confluent specializes in expert design and development of large-scale manufacturing specializing in interventional catheter-based devices and implants. Our key capabilities include Nitinol components and tubing, balloon and complex catheters, high-precision polymer tubing, and implantable textiles. We operate in 8 state-of-the-art facilities across the United States and Costa Rica and currently employ over 2,000 employees. Confluent has earned the confidence of leaders in the medical device community through a proven track record of innovation, engineering, and manufacturing.
